Jennifer Doleac is an American economist and is the vice president of criminal justice at Arnold Ventures.

[7] Doleac's research focuses on the economics of crime and discrimination, with particular interests in prisoner reentry and on policies that affect public safety.

In her most-cited publication, a 2018 article published in the Journal of Labor Economics, Doleac and Benjamin Hansen from the University of Oregon found that these laws had unintended consequences on the hiring of low skill minorities.

Without information on a candidate's criminal history, employers make extreme racially biased assumptions that the applicant is similar to his or her demographic.

[14] However, the claims were disputed by public health officials who argued that the results of Doleac's finding go against previous research on harm reduction.

Doleac and her co-authors, it was claimed, only focused on economic literature on harm reduction and ignored public health research.

[15] Economist Jennifer Doleac of Texas A&M University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her research on crime, police, and the unexpected consequences of the criminal justice system.