Ezekiel Dixon-Román

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
PhD, Psychometrics, Fordham University, 2007
eroman@northwestern.edu
curriculum vitae

Ezekiel Dixon-Román is an Institute of Education Sciences postdoctoral fellow in policy research under the mentorship of IPR Faculty Fellow Larry Hedges , Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy. His research interests concern the learning and development of marginalized youth. Currently, he examines this in two related areas: (1) the cumulative effect of intergenerational social and economic inequality on the distribution of learning and development and (2) the learning and developmental experiences present in indigenous forms of cultural capital.

One of his major projects is a book volume titled Mystery of inequity: The political economy of learning and development. In this book volume he is revising his dissertation models and examining how the effect of intergenerational economic capital is mediated by social, cultural, health, and school institutional capital. In order to account for the limitations of classical statistical analysis, Bayesian statistical modeling is used with the Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This work is heavily influenced by the critical theories of Pierre Bourdieu and is, in part, a quantitative/intergenerational analysis of what Annett Lareau (2003) captured in Unequal Childhoods.

Dixon-Román received his BA in psychology and Spanish from North Carolina Central University and an MA in the social sciences from the University of Chicago where he concentrated on quantitative methods and race, class and culture. He also accrued an MA in psychology while working on his PhD in psychometrics at Fordham University.