Judy A. TempleJudy A. Temple is an Associate Professor in the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Department of Applied Economics and Adjunct Professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Previously, she was an Associate rofessor of Economics at Northern Illinois University, where she taught and conducted research in public economics. Her major interests are public economics, economics of education, early education, cost-benefit analysis, and policy evaluation. Temple's recent work focuses on evaluation of the long-term effects of early educational interventions. She conducted the economic analysis of the nationally recognized Child-Parent Center Program and is co-principal investigator in the Chicago Longitudinal Study, which has followed 1,500 young children from low-income neighborhoods into adulthood. She has published articles in the National Tax Journal, the Southern Economic Journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Economics of Education Review. Read More Read Less