Luke Maddock

Assistant Professor of Data Analytics, Denison University

I’m an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Analytics at Denison University. My research uses causal inference and machine learning to study housing and homelessness policy, environmental and wildlife policy, and sports analytics.

Counts and funding for homeless programs in the US, 2015 -- 2019 (HUD)
Counts and Funding for Homeless Programs in the US, 2015 -- 2019 (HUD)
Maddock & Pena (2026) · Southern Economic Journal
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Event-study estimates of source-of-income protections on rental market outcomes
Source-of-income protections and rental market outcomes
Working paper · Source of Income Protections
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Cleveland plot of 2021 imputed homeless counts by place
Imputed COVID-19 homeless counts by place
Working paper · Counting the Uncounted
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SHAP values of common predictive features
Predictive features of ecosystem service values
Maddock, Nelson, Altringer, & McKee (2026) · Ecosystem Services
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Map of source of income protection policies, 2013 -- 2018
Map of source of income protection policies, 2013 -- 2018
Working paper · Source of Income Protections
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Heterogeneous effects of homelessness funding
Heterogeneous effects of homelessness funding
Maddock & Pena (2026) · Southern Economic Journal
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Dashboard of Continuum of Care statistics
Dashboard of Continuum of Care statistics
Maddock (2025) · CoC Explorer
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Browse my research, see what I’m teaching, or view my CV. I also maintain the Continuum of Care Mapper, an R Shiny app for visualizing CoC boundaries and homelessness statistics.

Email: maddockl@denison.edu