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Student
Name |
Areas
of Research Interest |
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Sara
Bernstein
Human Development and Social Policy
sara-bernstein@northwestern.edu
|
Program
coordination; evaluation; availability of quality childcare
for low-income families. |
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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. |
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Toby
Bolsen
Political Science
t-bolsen@northwestern.edu
|
American
national politics (information, political awareness, public
opinion, competitive framing, and energy policy). |
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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. |
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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. |
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Yingying
Deng
Sociology
y-deng@northwestern.edu |
Economic
sociology; social inequality; quantitative research methods. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Cari Lynn Hennessy
Political Science
c-hennessy@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae
|
Political behavior; political communication; mass media; the politics of race, class, and gender. |
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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. |
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Chelsea McKinney
Human Development and Social Policy
chelseamckinney@northwestern.edu |
Social determinants of health disparities; effect of health conditions on child development |
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Molly Metzger
Human Development and Social Policy
m-metzger@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae |
Early childhood interventions; the effects of poverty on child health. |
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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. |
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Michelle Naffziger
Sociology
m-naffziger@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae |
Culture in education; the sociology of culture, cultural sociology; inequality; the sociology of literature. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Benjamin Passty
Economics
b-passty@northwestern.edu |
Economics of education; labor economics; economic history; economics of marriage and family. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Aleksey Tetenov
Economics
a-tetenov@northwestern.edu
|
Inference
with missing data; minimax estimation; treatment choice. |
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Beth
Tipton
Statistics
e-tipton@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae
|
Educational
policy; education statistics. |
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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. |
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Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo
Human Development and Social Policy
a-valdovinos@northwestern.edu |
Family structure; father involvement; immigrant families; marriage; cohabitation. |
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Manyee Wong
Human Development and Social Policy
m-wong5@northwestern.edu |
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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. |
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Basit Zafar
Economics
b-zafar@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae |
Labor economics with a focus on decision-making under uncertainty; social
interactions in individual choices. |
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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. |
