Michael L. Lahr is Associate Director of Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON™). As Associate Research Professor of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, he holds a Ph.D. in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1995, Dr. Lahr has supervised R/ECON™ research on a broad array of public policy issues in the fields of housing, economic development, program evaluation, and fiscal and economic impact analysis. MORE about Dr. Michael L. Lahr