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IPR Graduate Research Assistants 2007-08

  Student Name Areas of Research Interest

Sara Bernstein
Human Development and Social Policy

sara-bernstein@northwestern.edu


Program coordination; evaluation; availability of quality childcare for low-income families.

Meredith Bintz
Political Science

m-bintz@northwestern.edu

American state and local government; metropolitan regional governance and institutions; policy networks; public participation in local policymaking.

Toby Bolsen
Political Science

t-bolsen@northwestern.edu

American national politics (information, political awareness, public opinion, competitive framing, and energy policy).

Vicki Chung
Human Development and Social Policy

vicki-chung@northwestern.edu

Immigration and acculturation; how acculturation affects the peer relationships, school outcomes, and mental/physiological health of immigrants.

Lori Delale-O'Connor
Sociology

l-delaleo@northwestern.edu

School choice; uses of cultural and social capital to create educational opportunities; impact of multiple contexts on adolescent welfare and development; and social stratification.
 

Yingying Deng
Sociology

y-deng@northwestern.edu

Economic sociology; social inequality; quantitative research methods.

Amy DeSantis
Human Development and Social Policy

a-desantis3@northwestern.edu

 

Racial/ethnic and socio-economic health disparities; the physiological processes through which environmental stressors operate to influence physical and mental health outcomes; and early developmental influences on stress system activity and health throughout the life course.

Leah Doane
Human Development and Social Policy

l-doane@northwestern.edu

Adolescence and the transition to adulthood; psychopathology; relationship functioning and the emergence of depressive and anxious disorders over the transition to adulthood.
 

Mimi Engel
Human Development and Social Policy

m-engel@northwestern.edu

 

Educational reform and policy evaluation; urban adolescents; poverty.

Pamela Giustinelli
Economics

p-giustinelli@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

 

Applied econometrics and labor economics with a particular focus on economics of education and the interaction between the demand and the supply of education and policy implications.

Lisbeth Goble
Human Development and Social Policy

l-goble@northwestern.edu

Education policy and evaluation; K-12 urban education; teacher effects; quantitative and qualitative methods in education; and adult literacy.

Cassandra Hart
Human Development and Social Policy

cassandra-hart@northwestern.edu

Parental work and the impact of employment status and situation on families; early childhood education; social class and mobility; and intergenerational transmission of human capital.

Cari Lynn Hennessy
Political Science

c-hennessy@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Political behavior; political communication; mass media; the politics of race, class, and gender.

Constance Lindsay
Human Development and Social Policy

c-lindsay@northwestern.edu

Racial gaps in education (achievement/test scores); racial identity; the impact of publicly supported programs on adolescents, lives, and well-being.

Chelsea McKinney
Human Development and Social Policy

chelseamckinney@northwestern.edu

Social determinants of health disparities; effect of health conditions on child development

Molly Metzger
Human Development and Social Policy

m-metzger@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Early childhood interventions; the effects of poverty on child health.

Lindsay M. Monte
Human Development and Social Policy

l-monte@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Marriage; un-married and multi-partnered fertility; urban poverty; family structure; welfare policy.

Michelle Naffziger
Sociology

m-naffziger@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Culture in education; the sociology of culture, cultural sociology; inequality; the sociology of literature.

Natalia Palacios
Human Development and Social Policy

n-palacios@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Early childhood education and achievement; childcare and education policy; focus on low-income, minority; immigrant families.

John Parman
Economics

j-parman@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Intergenerational income and occupational mobility; historical development of educational institutions and their impact on class structures; American economic history.

Benjamin Passty
Economics

b-passty@northwestern.edu

Economics of education; labor economics; economic history; economics of marriage and family.

Chris Rhoads
Statistics

c-rhoads@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Design and analysis of cluster randomized experiments with a particular interest in small
experiments; linear statistical models; issues of causal inference in observational studies.
 

Clarissa Simon
Human Development and Social Policy

c-simon@northwestern.edu

Perceptions of health conditions; family and sibling health; resilience and coping with health
crises; health care access for disadvantaged and chronically ill individuals; relevance of current
health conditions to later educational and occupational outcomes.

Aaron Sojourner
Economics

a-sojourner"at"northwestern.edu

Economics and policy of early childhood investment; measuring the value of policies that reduce public risk levels; labor unions and political economy.

Jennifer Stephan
Human Development and Social Policy

j-stephan@northwestern.edu

Educational policy; factors promoting successful transitions and outcomes in postsecondary education; early childhood interventions and policy; research methodology.
 

Aleksey Tetenov
Economics

a-tetenov@northwestern.edu

 

Inference with missing data; minimax estimation; treatment choice.

Beth Tipton
Statistics

e-tipton@northwestern.edu

curriculum vitae

Educational policy; education statistics.

Ija Trapeznikova
Economics

i-trapeznikova@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Education economics and college enrollment, in particular business-cycle properties of college
enrollment rates; employment - hours trade-off in hiring decisions of firms.

Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo
Human Development and Social Policy

a-valdovinos@northwestern.edu

Family structure; father involvement; immigrant families; marriage; cohabitation.
 

Manyee Wong
Human Development and Social Policy

m-wong5@northwestern.edu

 

Vivian Wong
Human Development and Social Policy

vivianw@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Within-study comparisons of experimental and quasi-experimental designs; regression discontinuity and abbreviated interrupted time series designs; evaluation of state pre-K programs.

Basit Zafar
Economics

b-zafar@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Labor economics with a focus on decision-making under uncertainty; social
interactions in individual choices.

Kai Zeng
Political Science

kzeng@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

International relations; international and comparative political economy; formal modeling and statistical methods; East Asian politics and economy.