This paper investigates acute, compounded, and persistent deprivation in a representative sample of Chicago adolescents transitioning to young adulthood. Our investigation, based on four waves of longitudinal data from 1995 to 2013, is motivated by three...
This paper examines the racial ecology of lead exposure as a form of environmental inequity, one with both historical and contemporary significance. Drawing on comprehensive data from over one million blood tests administered to Chicago children from 1995...
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, 2013-2019.
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2019-2021.
Co-winner of the W.E. Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award for the best dissertation on employment, 2013.
Congressional Fellow, American Sociological Association, 2013-2014.
Research interests: Empirical law and economics, particularly in the areas of criminal justice and consumer bankruptcy.
Olin Fellow and Instructor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, 2013-2014.
Winner John M. Olin Prize for best paper in law and...
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago Crime Lab, 2013-2017.
Winner of the first annual Economics of Crime prize at the 6th Economics of Crime Transatlantic Workshop at Bocconi University in Milan, 2014.
Postdoctoral Fellow,Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), 2013-16.
Recipient of the Prize for Excellence in Development, German Economics Association & KfW, 2019.
Awarded Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Grant, 2018.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, 2013-2016.
Miya Woolfalk leads a team of research managers and analysts who design, implement and analyze research projects on a wide range of topics. Her substantive expertise and primary...