Research interests: Political scientist. Inequality and opportunity: the growing class gap among American young people and the implications for social mobility. Social capital and public affairs.
Research interests: Sociologist. Urban poverty, neighborhoods, joblessness, concentrated disadvantage, race and inequality, and social policies to address these problems.
Research interests: Political scientist. Representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.
Research interests: Changes in family structure over the past generation, the costs and benefits of economic inequality, the extent to which economic advantages are inherited, and the effects of welfare reform.
Research interests: Poverty, welfare, families, the role of churches in civic life.