Daphne Blakey

Daphne Blakey

Brooks School of Public Policy

Cornell University

Daphne Blakey is a quantitative social science researcher with advanced training in economics and public policy at Cornell University.

Her work focuses on public sector labor institutions, policing, and applying advanced quantitative and computational methods to study how policy shapes social and economic outcomes. She specializes in data analysis and econometric methods. Her recent work includes building a national corpus of police union collective bargaining agreements and conducting text analysis using machine learning to study how contractual employment protections impact officer behavior and public safety.

She holds a Master of Science in Public Policy from Cornell and a dual B.A./B.Sc. in Sociology, Mathematics, and Economics from the University of Southern California.