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Mary Jo Bane

Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Emerita


Research interests: Poverty, welfare, families, the role of churches in civic life.

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Christopher Jencks

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Emeritus


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.

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Gordon Hanson

Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy


Research interests:  Impact of immigration and international trade on the U.S. labor market; economic geography;  urbanization.

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Jane J. Mansbridge

Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Emerita


Research interests: Political scientist. Representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.

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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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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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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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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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Daniel Schneider

Professor of Public Policy and of Sociology
Co-Director of The Shift Project


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 precarious and unpredictable employment affects family life.

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Sandra Susan Smith

Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Director, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management


Research interests: Sociologist. Urban poverty, racial inequality, and criminal justice. How the front-end of criminal case processing contributes to the reproduction of racial and class inequalities.

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