Eileen Hlavka

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Assistant Policy Analyst
Off Site Office

Education

M.Phil. (Ph.D. candidate) in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; B.A. in mathematics/political science, Reed College

Overview

Biography

Eileen Hlavka is an assistant policy analyst at RAND and a Ph.D. student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her career focus is climate change policy, and through her work and Ph.D. studies she strives to learn a variety of mostly quantitative research methods, in the belief that different facets of climate change policy require different methodological approaches. She has contributed to RAND projects for diverse clients such as the National Energy Technology Laboratory and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, as well as the internally supported RAND Methods Lab and the Environment, Energy, and Economic Development program. Eileen earned her B.A. in mathematics and political science from Reed College and has done state-level policy work in California.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Biomass Availability and Costs for a Power Plant
  • Police Recruitability Geographic Assessment Tool
  • RAND Internally Supported Methods Research
  • Los Angeles School Travel and Congestion
  • Security, Greenhouse Gases and U.S. Energy Policy

Selected Publications

Eileen Hlavka, Subsidy Effects on Production of Research on Solar and Wind Technology: Using a New Measure to Inform Climate Policy (presentation), Association for Public Policy and Management Fall Research Conference, 2011

Tom LaTourrette, David Ortiz, Eileen Hlavka, Nicholas Burger, Gary Cecchine, Supplying Biomass to Power Plants: A Model of the Costs of Utilizing Agricultural Biomass in Co-Fired Power Plants, RAND (TR-876-DOE), 2011

Eileen Hlavka, "U.S. Subsidy Effects on Production of Solar Technology Research: Using a New Measure to Assess Policy Impacts," Clean Energy and Technology 2011 Conference Proceedings, 2011

Hassell, Scott, Michael A. Toman, Liisa Ecola, Tewodaj Mengistu, Endy Y. Min, Aimee E. Curtright, Noreen Clancy, Eileen Hlavka, Strengthening U.S. International Energy Assistance to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improve Energy Security, RAND (OP-251-RC), 2009

Eileen Hlavka, Scales vs. Blocks, Power vs. Coalitions: Analyzing Congressional Voting Patterns Using Poole and Rosenthal's Nominate Scoring and Hartigan's Block Clustering (thesis), Reed College, 2004

Honors & Awards

  • STAR Dissertation Fellowship, Environmental Protection Agency
  • Cazier Sustainability Dissertation Fellowship, Pardee RAND Graduate School
  • Lockheed Martin National Merit Scholar, National Merit Scholarship Corporation