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OPR Faculty and Research Associates

Faculty and Research Staff

Alicia Adsera, Visiting Associate Professor of Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, 1996. Interests: fertility and household formation, migration and international political economy.

Jeanne Altmann, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Ph.D., Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago, 1979. Interests: non-experimental research design and analysis, ecology and evolution of family relationships and of behavioral development; primate demography and life histories, parent-offspring relationships; infancy and the ontogeny of behavior and social relationships, conservation education and behavioral aspects of conservation.

Elizabeth Armstrong, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology and Demography, University of Pennsylvania, 1998. Interests: sociology of medicine, history of medicine and public health, biomedical ethics, population health, sociology of pregnancy.

João Biehl, Associate Professor in Anthropology. Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1999. Interests: medical anthropology, social studies of science and technology, Latin American societies.

Anne C. Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1988. Interests: public finance, development economics, economics of the family.

Rafaela Dancygier, Assistant Professor in Politics and Public and International Affairs. Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University, 2007. Interests: comparative politics, comparative political economy, immigration, ethnic politics, ethnic conflict.

Angus S. Deaton, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Cambridge University, 1974. Interests: microeconomic analysis, applied econometrics, economic development.

Elisabeth Donahue, Lecturer of Public and International Affairs. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1993. Interests: poverty, social policy financing and children's policy.  Associate Editor of the Future of Children journal.

Thomas J. Espenshade, Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1972. Interests: higher education in the United States, the racial dimension of college admissions and campus life, intergroup relations on college campuses, social demography, contemporary immigration to the United States.

Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Lecturer in Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology, Rutgers University, 1981. Interests: international economic development, industrial restructuring, gender/class/ethnicity, migration/global economy, women/ethnic minorities in the labor force.

Noreen Goldman, Professor of Demography and Public Affairs. D.Sc., Population Studies, Harvard University, 1977. Interests: quantitative analysis, health and mortality, survey design, mathematical demography.

Joshua R. Goldstein, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Demography, University of California, Berkeley, 1996. Interests: social demography, family demography, methodology, historical demography, race and ethnicity.

Jean Grossman, Lecturer in Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980. Interests: youth development and employment, mentoring, after-school programs, teen pregnancy prevention.

Angel L. Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies. Ph.D., Public Policy & Sociology, University of Michigan, 2005. Interests: social psychology, sociology of education, survey research methods, race and ethnicity, quantitative data analysis, public policy analysis.

Alan B. Krueger, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 1987. Interests: labor economics, industrial relations, social insurance.

Adriana Lleras-Muney, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, 2001. Interests: children's education, child labor laws, population health issues.

Scott M. Lynch, Associate Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology, Duke University, 2001. Interests: social epidemiology, quantitative methodology, demography and sociology of aging.

Douglas S. Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton University, 1978. Interests: demography, urban sociology, race and ethnicity, international migration, Latin American society, particularly Mexico.

Sara S. McLanahan, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Director, Bendheim-Thoman Center for research on Child Well-Being. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, 1979. Interests: family demography, intergenerational relationships, poverty.

Daniel Notterman, Senior Health Policy Analyst, Molecular Biology; Lecturer in Molecular Biology. M.D., New York University School of Medicine, 1978. Interests: research in tumor biology, bioethics, gene-environment interactions.

Devah Pager, Associate Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002. Interests: employment discrimination, racial inequality, social stratification, prisoner reentry.

Christina H. Paxson, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, 1987. Interests: economic development, applied microeconomics.

Alejandro Portes, Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1970. Interests: immigration, economic sociology, comparative development, Third World urbanization.

Germán Rodríguez, Senior Research Demographer. Ph.D., Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, 1975. Interests: statistical demography, fertility surveys, survival analysis, multilevel models, demographic and statistical computing, with emphasis on web applications.

Matthew Salganik, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University, 2007. Interests: social networks, sociology of culture, social inequality, social psychology, and quantitative methods.

Samuel A Schulhofer-Wohl, Assistant Professor in Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 2007. Interests: economic development, macroeconomics and applied econometrics

Burton H. Singer, Professor of Demography and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Statistics, Stanford University, 1967. Interests: epidemiology, demography, and genetics of tropical diseases, psychosocial and biological pathways to alternative states of health, economic development projects and health impact assessments, biology of well-being.

Marta Tienda, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Texas, Austin, 1977. Interests: social demography, race and ethnic stratification, higher education, immigration.

James Trussell, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1975. Interests: reproductive health, fertility, contraceptive technology, AIDS, mortality, demographic methods.

Charles F. Westoff, Professor of Demographic Studies and Sociology, Emeritus. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1953. Interests: population policy, comparative fertility in developing countries, fertility surveys.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Audrey Beck, Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, Duke University, 2007. Interests: family formation, education, contextual effects, juvenile delinquency, and racial and ethnic inequality.

Stefanie Brodmann, Research Associate. Ph.D., Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007. Interests: ethnic minorities in the labor market, educational systems and income distribution

Alison Buttenheim, Research Associate. Ph.D., Public Health, University of California - Los Angeles, 2007. Interests: smoking initiation and cessation behavior in young adults, school feeding, child health in displaced populations, the effects of climate change and forced migrations on infectious disease epidemiology, and tobacco control in developing countries.

Amy Love Collins, Research Associate. Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Boston College, 2006. Interests: aging, health, wellbeing.

Carey Cooper, Research Associate. Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 2006. Interests: child wellbeing, poverty, family structure, parenting, and education.

Michelle DeKlyen, Research Staff. Ph.D., Child Clinical Psychology, University of Washington, 1992. Interests: child development, early child behavior disorders, child learning disabilities.

Gniesha Dinwiddie, Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006. Interests: race and ethnicity, sociology of medicine, sociology of education, social psychology.

Jenny Higgins, Research Associate. Ph.D., Women's Studies, MPH, Global Health, Emory University, 2005. Interests: sexuality and sexual pleasure-seeking, particularly how they influence contraceptive use, unintended pregnancy, and HIV risk.

Margot Jackson, Research Associate. PH.D., Sociology, UCLA, 2007. Interests: social stratification, health and child wellbeing. Specifically, she is interested in understanding how the relationship between health and social status evolves over the life course and across generations.

Joanna Kempner, Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. Interests: sociology of medicine, health policy, gender, science, bioethics, and qualitative methods.

Sarah Meadows, Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, Duke University, 2005. Interests: mental health, stress and coping, adolescent health and wellbeing, marriage and health, life course, gender, criminology and juvenile delinquency.

Anna Münch, Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ph.D., Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern, 2007. Interests: a visiting postdoctoral research associate working with Burt Singer, is carrying out a project about Health Interventions to Nomadic People in the Sahel (Development of adequate health strategies in order to reduce infectious diseases using the examples of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and syphilis among Tamasheq nomads in Mali).

Sunny Niu, Research Associate. Ph.D., Economics of Education, Stanford University, 2002. Interests: issues in education and higher education, research design, employment, and income distribution and occupational choice.

Kimberly Torres, Research Associate. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006. Interests: race and ethnicity, education, inequality.

Visiting Scholars

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Visiting Research Collaborator. Ph.D., Human Learning and Development, University of Pennsylvania, 1975. Interests: child development, child wellbeing, parenting, education, poverty.

Michael Hout, Visiting Research Scholar. Ph.D., Sociology, Indiana University, 1976. Interests: sociological demography, ethnicity, education, political change, sociology of religion, quantitative methods

Pamela Klebanov, Visiting Research Collaborator. Ph.D., Princeton University, 1989. Interests: child health and development, parenting, maternal employment, poverty.