Travis St. Clair

Associate Professor of Financial Management and Public Service

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Travis St. Clair

Travis St. Clair is an Associate Professor of Financial Management and Public Service at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, focusing broadly on financial management in the public sector. His research is focused on two main themes: 1) the long-term fiscal challenges facing state and local governments in the United States, which include unfunded pensions, growing healthcare costs, and aging infrastructure; and 2) how fiscal institutions, such as debt restrictions or federal tax rules, affect the ability of governments and nonprofits to provide effective public services.

Some of his current projects examine the responsiveness of infrastructure spending to federal tax policy and the fiscal impact of climate change on municipal government budgets.  In addition to his substantive interests in financial management, Prof. St.Clair also has methodological interests in program evaluation and design replication studies.

St. Clair received a BA and a master’s degree from Harvard and a PhD in public policy from George Washington University. From 2012-2013, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research. Prior to joining NYU, he was an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.