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Joanne Spitz, Network Administrator |
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education and Co-Director of the National Center for Children and Families, Teacher's College, Columbia University. Professor of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Assesses parental contributions to cognitive development and studies the impact of poverty on child outcomes.
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Lindsay Chase-Lansdale is a Professor in the program of Human Development and Social Policy and a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is a developmental psychologist who studies family process and risk and resilience in children and youth from low-income families. Curriculum Vitae | Internet Resources |
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Cecilia A. Conrad is the Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics at Pomona College. Her recent projects include an analysis of trends in the economic status of minority women; a study of the market for science and technology workers; and an exploration of differences in the recruitment practices of minority and non-minority owned companies. Conrad is currently engaged in a study of the causes and consequences of inequality in local public expenditure on children and families. Internet Resources |
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Greg J. Duncan, Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University, specializes in statistical analysis of the relationship between public policy, family income, and outcomes for children. Curriculum Vitae | Internet Resources |
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Kathryn Edin is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include poverty and social inequality, urban and community sociology, family and gender, and public policy. Edin is currently involved in several qualitative studies involving low-income families, father involvement in families with young children and families' methods of coping with welfare reform. Curriculum Vitae | Internet Resources |
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Paula England, Network Co-Chair, Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Research Affiliate of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University, focuses on gender issues. Her research deals with the pay gap between men and women and how this is affected by women's involvement in the work of caring for people in their families and for pay. She is also studying dynamics in married and cohabiting couples and how they are affected by power, gender norms, and emotional skills. England tries to foster dialogue between sociologists, economists, demographers, and feminists. Curriculum Vitae | Internet Resources |
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Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, explores the interface between economics and feminist theory, focusing on non-market work and the evolution of social institutions governing public support for childrearing. Curriculum Vitae | Internet Resources |
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Irwin Garfinkel is the Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems and chair of the Social Indicators Survey Center at the Columbia University School of Social Work. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific articles and eleven books on poverty, income transfers, program evaluation, and child support. His most recent book is entitled Fathers Under Fire: The Revolution in Child Support Enforcement. His research on child support influenced legislation in Wisconsin and other American states, the US Congress, Great Britain, Australia, and Sweden. Internet Resources |
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Sara McLanahan, Professor of Sociology in the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, studies the relationship between family structure, income, and child outcomes. Curriculum Vitae | Internet Resources |
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Ronald B. Mincy, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, School of Social Work, Columbia University studies the effects of welfare, child support, family support, housing, and employment and training policies and practices on family formation and father involvement. He is currently writing a book on fathers, families and welfare reform and editing a conference volume on the effects of labor market expansion during the 1990s on labor force participation among low-skilled men and implications for welfare re-authorization. Internet Resources |
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Robert A. Pollak, Network Co-Chair, Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, is a microeconomic theorist who develops game-theoretic approaches to family decision making, including domestic violence. Curriculum Vitae | Internet Resources |
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Timothy Smeeding, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at Syracuse University, Director of the Center for Policy Research, conducts international comparisons of economic welfare with special attention to income distribution and poverty. Curriculum Vitae | Internet Resources |
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Robert J. Willis is Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan where he also Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center. Before coming to Michigan in 1995, he had served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, SUNY at Stony Brook and Stanford University. Willis is currently the Principal Investigator on a large longitudinal survey, the Health and Retirement Study, which is collecting data on Americans over age 50. He is an authority in the economics of the family, marriage, and fertility, labor economics, human capital and population and economic development. Internet Resources |
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Joanne Spitz, Network Administrator at Washington University in St. Louis. Please contact Joanne at spitz@wustl.edu for any suggestions or queries regarding this website. |