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Julie Boatright Wilson

Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy

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 to parent.

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William Julius Wilson

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Emeritus

Research interests: Sociologist. Urban poverty, neighborhoods, joblessness, concentrated disadvantage, race and inequality, and social policies to address these problems.

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David J. Deming

Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE

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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Robert D. Putnam

Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus

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.

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Christopher Winship

Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology
Member of the Faculty, Harvard Kennedy School

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; analysis of Age-Period-Cohort models; inner city youth behavior and violence, police-community relations.

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Quinton Mayne

Ford Foundation Associate Professor of Public Policy

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.

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Jennifer S. Lerner

Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor in Public Management
Co-founder, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory

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 the evidentiary base for designing public policies that maximize human wellbeing.

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Todd Rogers

Professor of Public Policy
Director of the Student Social Support R&D Lab

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 interventions that are informed by behavioral science.

Cognitive and social factors that influence election participation (e.g., get-out-the-vote activities informed by psychological insights). How time-inconsistent preferences can be leveraged to increase support for future-minded policies and choices (e.g., support for environmental legislation, ordering healthier foods, and watching high-brow movies).

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