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Director

Kathleen Cagney   Race and ethnic differences in access to health care/long-term care, demography of aging, life course approaches to research in health, health status assessment

Advisory Board

Advisory Board Co-chair   Robert T. Michael
Assistant Director and Advisory Board Co-chair  Kathleen Parks
Director, Committee on Demographic Training   Linda Waite
Representative from the Sociology Department   Linda Waite
Representative from the Harris School   Ariel Kalil
Representative from the Economics Department   Derek Neal

Research Associates

Gary S. Becker   Investment in human capital, population change and economic growth, influence of social forces on the economy, the economics of the family; economics, and politics

Dan Black   Labor economics, applied econometrics, and race and gender wage disparities

C. Hoyt Bleakley   Tropical disease eradication, labor, statistical investment models

Donald J. Bogue   Human ecology, migration, ecological impact of human aging

John T. Cacioppo   Ambivalence and its consequences, individual differences in affective processing, the neural and psychological substrates of racial prejudice

Kerwin Charles   Empirical labor economics: racial composition on neighborhood effects, retirement effects on subject well being, and intergenerational transfers

Marshall Chin   Medical outcomes assessment, quality of care, diabetes and other chronic diseases, the elderly

Robert W. Fogel   Historical data on relation between physical factors, health and mortality; later life consequences of miltary service

Jeffrey T. Grogger   Labor economics, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, and economics of crime

Jonathan Guryan   Desegregation and black dropout rates, regression discontinuity estimates from education reform

Lars Hansen   Time series econometrics, quantitative analysis of dynamic equilibrium models, and asset pricing

James Heckman   Evaluation of social programs, econometric models of discrete choice and longitudinal data, the economics of the labor market, alternative models of the distribution of income, public economics

Ariel Kalil   Child and family functioning in low-income families

Micere Keels   Neighborhood effects on urban children's perceptions

Robert J. LaLonde   Evaluation of econometric techniques, social welfare programs, trade unions, immigration

Diane Lauderdale   Life course determinants of health in the elderly, health of immigrant populations, chronic disease epidemiology, in particular, osteoporosis

Edward O. Laumann   Social stratification, organizational analysis, methodology, political sociology, social theory, sociology of sexuality

Stacy Tessler Lindau   Gynecology and geriatrics

Jens Ludwig   Urban poverty, education, crime, and housing policy

Ofer Malamud   Labor economics, economics of education, development, and applied microeconomics

Willard G. Manning   Effect of taxes and control policies on alcohol and cigarette consumption

Susan E. Mayer   Poverty, inequality, social welfare policy

Martha McClintock   Pheromones, sexual behavior, the social regulation of disease

David O. Meltzer   Health economics, economics of aging

Alicia S. Menendez   Development economics, poverty and inequality, labor economics, household behavior

Bruce D. Meyer   The affects of labor policies, unemployment, welfare, and tax reform on minorities, immigrants, and single parents

Robert T. Michael   Family investments in children, adult sexual behavior, poverty

Casey Mulligan   Non-pecuniary incentives to save and work, how economy affects policy

Kevin M. Murphy   Empirical analysis of inequality, unemployment, and relative wages, economics of growth and development

Derek Neal   Labor market inequality between black and white women in the U.S.

Colm O'Muircheartaigh   Survey sample design, measurement errors in surveys, cognitive aspects of question wording, latent variable models for nonresponse

Emily Oster   Health economics, gender imbalance, disease

William L. Parish   Labor markets, gender inequality, sexual behavior, and government-business relations

Tomas J. Philipson   Health economics, public health aspects of infectious diseases, evaluation of new health care technology

Marcos Rangel (on leave, 2007-2008)   Developmental economics, economic demography, and applied econometrics

Stephen W. Raudenbush   Methodology of education research, hierarchical linear models

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach   Children in poverty, food stamps, elementary school education

Jesse Shapiro   Economics of communication and persuasion, in the areas of industrial organization and political economy

Mario Small Urban poverty, inequality, culture, migration, and higher education

Robert M. Townsend   General equilibrium models, risk-sharing, formal vs. informal arrangements, mechanism design, and incentive problems

Linda Waite   Intergenerational transfers, demography of the family, aging, labor force

Kazuo Yamaguchi   Social stratification and mobility, quantitative methodology, the life course, mathematical sociology

Yang Yang   Fertility, disability, morbidity, methodology, and racial differencials

Wesley Yin (on leave, 2007-2008)   Health economics, public finance, and development economics

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Research Affiliates

Shelley D. Clark   The causes and consequences of gender inequality, child well-being, reproductive health policy, fertility decisions, developing countries

Larry V. Hedges   Psychology, the social sciences, statistics

Jibum Kim   General Social Survey (GSS), the effect of neighborhood characteristics on social relations

Carolina Milesi   Socioeconomic disparities in education and health

Rebecca Ryan   Cohabitation, child wellbeing, and parental investments in children

Barbara Schneider   How social contexts, primarily schools and families, influence individuals' interests and actions

Matthew Stagner   Evaluation of children's services; child welfare services, youth risk behaviors, youth development

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Staff

Kathleen Parks   Assistant Director, Research and Training

Michael Kwit   Assistant Director for Finance and Planning

Mike Zachar   Technical Director

Bevis Pardee   Director of Information Systems, Harris School

Jingsheng Zhu   Data Archivist

Michael Kuby   Faculty Business Development Coordinator

Ernest Tani   Librarian, NORC Library

Lynette Bertsche   Librarian, NORC Library

Cheryl Sutherland   Archivist, NORC Library

Kerry Sharkey   Technical Manager

Adelle Hinojosa   Office Manager

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