Rector received an undergraduate degree from The College of William & Mary and a masters in political science from Johns Hopkins University.

Watch Robert Rector.”[8] Rector promoted work and marriage as primary means to reduce material poverty and improve the well-being of the poor.

[18] With statistical assistance from Harvard Ph.D. and then Heritage Research Fellow Jason Richwine, Rector wrote a report on the fiscal cost of proposed amnesty legislation to the United States.

Senator and the newly installed Heritage Foundation president, introduced the report in an op-ed article in the Washington Post.

[20] The methods used in the report met with considerable criticism from a number of think tanks and immigration policy analysts across the political spectrum, including Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute,[21] Michael Clemens of the Center for Global Development,[22] and many others.

[27] Rector has published research papers for The Heritage Foundation that conclude a delay in the onset of sexual activity is linked to positive life outcomes.