Research interests: Behavioral scientist. Intersection of education, psychology, judgment and decision-making, and behavioral economics. Cognitive, motivational, and social barriers to student achievement, and development of low-cost scalable...
Research interests: A psychologist who draws on insights from psychology, economics, and neuroscience in order to elucidate human judgment and decision making. Predicting effects of specific emotions on specific judgment and choice outcomes. Expanding...
Research interests: Political scientist. Intersection of comparative and urban politics. How the design and reform of democratic political institutions affects how citizens think and act politically.
Research interests: Stratification and Statistical Methods. Statistical models for causal analysis; the effects of education on mental ability; how people act when rationality is not a possibility; the linkage in Pragmatism between action and knowledge...
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: Economics of skill development, education, and the labor market. The long-run influence of school accountability: impacts, mechanisms, and policy implications. The growing return to social skills in the labor market.
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Research interests: Sociologist. Urban poverty, neighborhoods, joblessness, concentrated disadvantage, race and inequality, and social policies to address these problems.
Research interests: Sociologist. Poverty policy, family policy, and child welfare and juvenile justice issues. Adoption from public agencies, child welfare and juvenile justice reform, and community-based strategies for strengthening families' capacities...
Research interests: Political scientist. Statistical methods, law, political economy, and race and ethnic politics. Issues involving the political economy of race relations, the American legal system, and law and politics.
Research interests: Political scientist. Representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.