People
PRC Director Kate Cagney and NORC President John Thompson. Below are photographs from the annual PRC party in June 2009.
Don Bogue
Ed Laumann, Norman Bradburn, and Bob Michael
Omar McRoberts
Dan Bennett and Alicia Menendez
Tom Hoffer, Jeff Grogger, and Kathy Neckerman
Carlos Mendes de Leon
Marc Hernandez, Kate Cagney, Sarah Hakken, and Kerwin Charles
Isabel Garcia, Leonid Gavrilov
Sara Leitsch, Kate Cagney, and Angie Jaszczak
Director
Kathleen Cagney Neighborhood effects and health, urban social processes, 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
- Representatives from the Sociology Department Linda Waite, Mario Small
- Representatives from the Harris School Ariel Kalil, Kerwin Charles
- Representative from the Economics Department Derek Neal
- Representative from the School of Social Science Administration Jens Ludwig
- Representative from the Department of Medicine David O. Meltzer
Research Associates
- Scott W. Allard Social welfare policy, poverty, nonprofit organizations
- 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
- Daniel M. Bennett Economic aspects of public health in the developing world
- 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 military 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
- Jung-Hwa Ha Life course and aging, widowhood, social support, intergenerational relationships, and stress and coping
- 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
- Heather Hill Poverty and inequality, program evaluation, maternal employment, unmarried parents, the health and development of young children
- 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
- Tomas J. Philipson Health economics, public health aspects of infectious diseases, evaluation of new health care technology
- Damon Phillips - Social structural approaches to labor and product markets, organizational strategy and structure, social network theory and analysis
- Harold Pollack Racial and ethnic disparities in substance use disorders and in access to treatment services among low-income women
- 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
- 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 differentials
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
- Sanyu A. Mojola Demography, sociology of health, gender, love and money
- Kathryn Neckerman urban inequality 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
- Robert M. Townsend General equilibrium models, risk-sharing, formal vs. informal arrangements, mechanism design, and incentive problems
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