Harvard Kennedy School

Lisa M. Lynch is the Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management, where she was also the director of the Institute for Economic and Racial Equity, and is co-director of...

DAVID WEIL is Professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. In AY 2025, he is the Stone Visiting Scholar / Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School...

Research interests: Political scientist. American politics, with a focus on political behavior, public policy, local politics, elections, and experimental and quantitative methodology.

Research interests: Sociologist. Social demography, inequality, and the family. The role of economic resources in entry into marriage and cohabitation; the effects of the Great Recession on relationship quality, union dissolution, and fertility; how...