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Sara McLanahan
Director, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
Ph.D. 1979, University of Texas, Sociology. William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research; Founder and Director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. Interests: child development, child wellbeing, parenting, education, poverty, and family and community influences on the development of young children. Editor-in-Chief of The Future of Children and Principal Investigator on the Fragile Families Study.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Jean Knab
Ph.D. 2004 Princeton University, Sociology. Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Interests: social policy, poverty and inequality, the family, and child wellbeing. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Viviana Zelizer
Ph.D. 1977, Columbia University, Sociology. Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. Interests: economic processes, American social history and childhood. |
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