Interests: fertility, household formation and labor market institutions, migration, income distribution and political economy, international and regional development, and press freedom.
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, and conservation education and behavioral aspects of conservation.
Interests: public health, the history and sociology of medicine, risk in obstetrics, and biomedical ethics.
University of California, Berkeley, 1999.
Interests: socio-cultural and medical anthropology; social studies of science and technology; global health; culture and mental illness; HIV/AIDS; pharmaceuticals; health and human rights; religion and society; subjectivity; ethnographic methods; contemporary social theory; Latin American societies; and Brazil.
Interests: lie at the intersection between economic history, labor economics and urban economics.
Interests: microeconomic foundations of development, health economics, public finance, and labor economics.
New York University, School of Arts and Sciences, 2014.
Interests: current work applies econometric methods for causal inference--namely, a natural experiment framework--to genome-wide data available in social surveys to model gene-by-environment interaction effects; also interested in mapping the genetic architecture of phenotypic plasticity, interrogating the assumptions underlying models for heritability, and characterizing social and genetic sorting as distinct processes.
Interests: health and well-being of children.
Interests: comparative politics, comparative political economy, immigration, ethnic politics, and ethnic conflict.
Interests: microeconomic analysis, applied econometrics, and economic development.
University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2010.
Interests: poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography.
Georgetown University Law Center, 1993.
Interests: poverty, social policy financing and children's policy.
Interests: direct, in-depth observations of the lives of low-income women, men, and children; qualitative and mixed-method research on urban poor; and single mothers survival on welfare and the fathers of their children.
Interests: social demography, with a particular emphasis on early childhood education, diversity in higher education, and demographic methods.
Interests: International economic development, industrial restructuring, gender/class/ethnicity, migration/global economy, women/ethnic minorities in the labor force.
Interests: how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power.
Interests: quantitative analysis, health and mortality, survey design, and mathematical demography.
Interests: the interface between theoretical models and empirical data in population biology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980.
Interests: youth policy, program and policy evaluation, and poverty.
University of Texas, Austin, 2010.
Interests: demography, migration, health, and social stratification.
Interests: inequalities in health and mortality, the sociology of marriage and family, and formal demography.
Interests: the industrial organization of the medical care market.
Interests: demography, urban sociology, race and ethnicity, international migration, Latin American society, particularly Mexico.
University of Texas, Austin, 1979.
Interests: family demography, intergenerational relationships, poverty.
Interests: evolutionary demography, infectious diseases, and public policy.
Interests: how societies produce health and illness, gender, race/ethnicity, aging and the life course and socio-economic status shape health outcomes.
Interests: poverty and inequality; fatherhood; religion; qualitative methods.
New York University School of Medicine, 1978.
Interests: research in tumor biology, bioethics, and gene-environment interactions.
Interests: prejudice and intergroup conflict reduction, political cultural change, civic education, social norms and behavior, network and influence, social scientific methodology, psychology, and policy.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1970.
Interests: immigration, economic sociology, comparative development, and Third World urbanization.
Interests: social networks, sociology of culture, social inequality, social psychology, and quantitative methods.
Interests: computational social science, text as data, and bayesian statistics.
University of Texas, Austin, 1977.
Interests: social demography, race and ethnic stratification, higher education, and immigration.
Interests: population policy, comparative fertility in developing countries, fertility surveys, family planning.
Interests: social stratification, demography, sociology of science and Chinese studies.