People
Center on Aging (CoA) Director Linda Waite and PRC Director Kate Cagney at the CoA and PRC Annual Party
Kate Cagney and Dean of the Harris School Colm O'Muircheartaigh
Linda Waite and Martha McClintock
NORC Academic Research Centers Vice President and PRC Assistant Director Kathleen Parks with Bob Michael and NORC President John Thompson
Melissa Gilliam and Alicia Menendez
Louise Hawkley and Donald Bogue
Stephen Smith, Katie Lundeen, Angie Jaszczak, and Ned English
Richard Taub and Ed Laumann
Diane Lauderdale
David Meltzer
Carolina Milesi
Matthew Stagner
John Felkner with son Liam
Felicia LeClere
PRC Program Coordinator Katherine Morris, Bob Michael, and Kate Cagney
Todd Schuble and PRC GIS Specialist Chieko Maene
Veronica Wald
Adelle Hinojosa
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 Service 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
- 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, intergenerational transfers
- Marshall Chin: Medical outcomes assessment, quality of care, diabetes and other chronic diseases, the elderly
- Amy Claessens: Evaluation of policy and program effects on child development, and evaluation of early achievement and socioemotional skills on subsequent life outcomes
- Michal Engelman: Aging and life course trajectories of physical and mental health, disparities/inequalities in health and mortality at older ages, health implications of population changes, social gerontology, formal demographic modeling, population dynamics
- Robert W. Fogel: Historical data on relation between physical factors, health, and mortality; later life consequences of military service
- Melissa Gilliam: Contraceptive use among teens and women who are at risk for unintended pregnancy
- Jeffrey T. Grogger: Labor economics, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, economics of crime
- Lars Hansen: Time series econometrics, quantitative analysis of dynamic equilibrium models, 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
- Erik Hurst: Macroeconomic policy, consumption, time use, entrepreneurship, household financial behavior
- Damon Jones: Public finance, household finance, and behavioral 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, housing policy
- Ofer Malamud: Labor economics, economics of education, development, 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., education policy
- 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
- 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
- Jesse Shapiro: Economics of communication and persuasion, in the areas of industrial organization and political economy
- Mario Small: Urban poverty, inequality, culture, migration, 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
Research Affiliates
- Roseanna Ander: Youth and gun violence, education
- Shelley D. Clark: The causes and consequences of gender inequality, child well-being, reproductive health policy, fertility decisions, developing countries
- Michael Davern: Population health data, data quality, survey methods
- John Felkner: Spatial statistical analysis of demographic and socio-economic data using GIS, empirical and historical analysis of urban trends and demographic patterns, and urban transportation modeling and simulations
- Jonathan Guryan: Education policy, race, lottery gambling
- Jung-Hwa Ha: Life course and aging, widowhood, social support, intergenerational relationships, and stress and coping
- Larry V. Hedges: Psychology, the social sciences, statistics
- Jibum Kim: General Social Survey (GSS), the effect of neighborhood characteristics on social relations
- Jane Leber Herr: Economic demography and labor economics
- Felicia LeClere: Data archives, health of immigrants, influence of social and physical geography on health disparities
- Stuart Michaels: Social organization of gender and sexuality/homosexuality, survey methods, social networks, and cross-national comparative research
- 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
- Damon Phillips: Social structural approaches to labor and product markets, organizational strategy and structure, social network theory and analysis
- Marcos Rangel: Demography, human capital, development economics
- 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
- Veronica Wald: Deputy Director
- Katherine Morris: Program Coordinator
- Chieko Maene: GIS Specialist
- Mike Zachar: Technical Director
- Bevis Pardee: Director of Information Systems, Harris School
- Jingsheng Zhu: Data Archivist
- Ernest Tani: Librarian, NORC Library
- Lynette Bertsche: Librarian, NORC Library
- Cheryl Sutherland: Archivist, NORC Library
- Kerry Sharkey: Technical Manager
- Adelle Hinojosa: Office Manager