People

Alan Blinder
Ph.D. 1971 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Economics. Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Director of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies. Interests: fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the distribution of income. CRCW Advisory Board.

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

Anne Case
Ph.D. 1988 Princeton University, Economics. 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.  PI of "Poverty, Inequality and Health."

Miguel Centeno, Executive Committee
Ph.D. 1990, Yale University, Sociology. Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and Director of Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University.   Interests:  Social change, historical sociology, sociology of war, and contemporary Latin America.

Michelle DeKlyen
Ph.D. 1992 University of Washington, Child Clinical Psychology.  Research Associate, CRCW, CHW, and OPR, Princeton University.  Interests:  Child development, early child behavior disorders, child learning disabilities. PI on the "Newark Fragile Families 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.  Associate Editor of the Future of Children journal.

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

Irv Garfinkel
Ph.D. 1970 University of Michigan, Social Work and Economics.  Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia School of Social Work.  Interests:  Social policy and the welfare state, poverty and inequality, single parent families, child support.  CRCW Advisory Board and PI on the "Fragile Families Study."

Jean Grossman
Ph.D. 1980 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Economics. Lecturer in Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, and Research Associate of Center for Child Well-Being and Office of Population Research, Princeton University.  Interests: evaluation design, employment and training, welfare.  Future of Children Advisory Board; PI on "Youth Policy Initiative."

Angel Harris
Ph.D. 2005 University of Michigan, Public Policy and Sociology. Assistant Professor of Sociology and African Studies and Faculty Associate of the 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 at the Brookings Institution and Senior Consultant at the 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. Research Associate at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing.  Interests:  Social policy, poverty and inequality, the family, and child wellbeing.  Senior Research Associate and Study Director of the "Fragile Families Study."

Katherine Newman, Executive Committee
Ph.D 1979 University of California, Anthropology. Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Interests:  Qualitative study of social stratification, with a special emphasis on the cultural meaning of mobility, work, poverty, and violence.

Daniel Notterman
MA 1977 Tufts University, MD 1978 New York University School of Medicine. Senior Health Policy Analyst, Princeton University and Professor of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

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

Christina Paxson, Executive Committee
Ph.D. 1987 Columbia University, Economics. Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Director of the Center for Health and Well-Being. Interests:  Applied economics, health, and development economics. Senior Editor for the Future of Children; PI on "Economic Status, Public Policy and Child Neglect."

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

Cecilia Rouse, Executive Committee
Ph.D. 1992 Harvard University, Economics. 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 for the Future of Children.

Isabel Sawhill
Ph.D. 1968 New York University, Economics.  Vice President & Director of Economic Studies 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. Interests: American society, politics, and both domestic and foreign policy. CRCW Advisory Board.

Marta Tienda, Executive Committee
Ph.D. 1977 University of Texas, Sociology. Professor of Sociology, Demographic Studies, and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Interests:  Population and development, youth employment and labor market dynamics, race and ethnic stratification, access to higher education. Fragile Families Study collaborator.

Bruce Western
Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Sociology. Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.  Interests:  Political and comparative sociology, stratification and inequality, and methodology.  PI on "Fatherhood & Incarceration."

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