Alicia Adsera
Ph.D. 1996, Boston University, Economics. Visiting Associate Professor at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Interests: fertility and household formation, migration and international political economy.

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Ph.D. 1975, University of Pennsylvania, Developmental Psychology. Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor in Child Development and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University;  Director, Center for Children and Families. Interests: child development, parenting and poverty.  The Future of Children Advisory Board; Principal Investigator on Child Care & Parental Employment in Fragile Families.

Anne Case
Ph.D. 1988, Princeton University, Economics. Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Interim Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing; Director of Research Program in Development Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.  Interests: microeconomic foundations of development, health economics and public finance labor economics.  Principal Investigator of Poverty, Inequality, and Health.

Michelle DeKlyen
Ph.D. 1992, University of Washington, Child Clinical Psychology. Research Associate, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and Office of Population Research, Princeton University.  Interests:  child development, early child behavior disorders, child learning disabilities. Principal Investigator on the Fragile Families in Urban Essex Study.

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

Kathryn Edin
Ph.D. 1991 Northwestern University, Sociology. Professor of Public Policy and Management, Kennedy School, Harvard University. Interests: poverty/social inequality, family/gender, public policy.

Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Ph.D. 1981, Rutgers University, Sociology. Senior Lecturer in Sociology; Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University.  Interests: international economic development, industrial restructuring, gender/class/ethnicity, migration/global economy, women/ethnic minorities in the labor force.

Irwin Garfinkel
Ph.D. 1970, University of Michigan, Social Work and Economics. Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia School of Social Work; Director, Columbia Population Research Center. Interests:  social policy and the welfare state, poverty and inequality, single parent families, child support.  Center for Research on Child Wellbeing Advisory Board and Principal Investigator on the Fragile Families Study.

Ana Maria Goldani
Ph.D. 1989, University of Texas-Austin, Sociology.  Associate Research Scholar, Office of Population Research, Princeton University; Associate Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of California Los Angeles. Interests: family, demography, sex and gender.

Jean Grossman
Ph.D. 1980, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Economics. Lecturer of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Research Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University. Interests: evaluation design, employment and training, welfare. The Future of Children Advisory Board.

Angel Harris
Ph.D. 2005, University of Michigan, Public Policy and Sociology. Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies; Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University. Interests: social psychology, sociology of education, survey research methods, race and ethnicity, quantitative data analysis and public policy analysis.

Ron Haskins
Ph.D. 1975, University of North Carolina, Developmental Psychology. Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program, Co-Director of the Center on Children and Families, Brookings Institution; Senior Consultant, Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore. Interests:  child abuse, child care, child support enforcement, welfare reform. CRCW Advisory Board and Senior Editor of The Future of Children.

Jean Knab
Ph.D. 2004 Princeton University, Sociology. Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Interests: social policy, poverty and inequality, the family, and child wellbeing.

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

Katherine Newman, Executive Committee
Ph.D 1979, University of California, Anthropology. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Director, Joint Doctoral Programs in Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and Social Policy; Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Interests: qualitative study of social stratification, with a special emphasis on the cultural meaning of mobility, work, poverty, and violence.

Daniel Notterman
M.A. 1977, Tufts University, M.D. 1978 New York University School of Medicine. Senior Health Policy Analyst and Lecturer, Molecular Biology, Princeton University; Professor of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Devah Pager, Executive Committee
Ph.D. 2002, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology. Associate Professor of Sociology; Faculty Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University. Interests: racial stratification, labor markets and the criminal justice system.

Christina Paxson, Executive Committee
Ph.D. 1987, Columbia University, Economics. Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Founding Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing; Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. Interests: applied economics, health and development economics. Senior Editor of The Future of Children; Principal Investigator on Economic Status, Public Policy, and Child Neglect.

Alejandro Portes
Ph. D. 1970, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology.  Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. Interests: immigration, economic sociology, comparative development, Third World urbanization.

Hillard Pouncy
Ph.D. 1980, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Political Science. Visiting Lecturer of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University. Interests: family support, U.S. labor market, education, economic and social mobility.

Cecilia Rouse, Executive Committee (Currently On Leave)
Ph.D. 1992, Harvard University, Economics. Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Director of the Education Research Section. Interests: labor economics with a particular focus on the economics of education. Senior Editor of The Future of Children.

Isabel Sawhill
Ph.D. 1968, New York University, Economics. Cabot Family Chair, Senior Fellow of Economic Studies, and Co-Director, Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution. Interests: education, federal budget, poverty and inequality, social welfare policy, teen pregnancy. Senior Editor of The Future of Children.

Paul Starr
Ph.D. 1978, Harvard University, Sociology. Professor of Sociology and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Interests: American society, politics, domestic and foreign policy. Center for Research on Child Wellbeing Advisory Board.

Marta Tienda, Executive Committee
Ph.D. 1977, University of Texas, Sociology. Maurice P. During ’22 Professor in Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Interests: population and development, youth employment and labor market dynamics, race and ethnic stratification, access to higher education.

Viviana Zelizer
Ph.D. 1977, Columbia University, Sociology. Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. Interests: economic processes, American social history and childhood.