Homepage Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics More information Curriculum Vitae Biography About My research addresses several related themes: 1) how low-income populations use migration and education to improve household well-being and mobility prospects for future generations; 2) how changes in markets, technology, and policy affect agricultural choices among resource-constrained rural households; 3) how these …
Homepage Department of Sociology More information Curriculum vitae Biography About I am a sociologist with expertise in sociology of science, technology and medicine, medical sociology, critical race theory, gender and science, organizations and professions, social theory, and qualitative research methods. Between 2007 and 2017, my interdisciplinary research group and I have studied five different biomedical …
Homepage School of Social Work More information Curriculum Vitae Biography About My research focuses on how aging parents and their family relationships are altered by unexpected events in the lives their adult children. My early work focused on how the lives of aging parents were disrupted by major life stressors in the lives of their …
Homepage Department of Sociology More information Curriculum vitae Biography About My research has explored ‘two-sided’ matching problems, where choices are made by two sets of actors. I am currently working on four papers involving two-sided modeling of social outcomes: 1) a multivariate, two-sided analysis of the relative importance of worker versus firm preferences in the …
Homepage Waisman Center Research Lifespan Family Research Program at the Waisman Center More information Curriculum Vitae Biography About My research is aimed at understanding the impacts of “nonnormative” (NN) parenting, which we define as parenting a son or daughter with a developmental disability or severe mental illness, or experiencing child death. As well, I study …
Homepage School of Social Work More information Curriculum Vitae Biography About My background and research make me well-suited to be affiliated with the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE). I am a social worker who has been trained in social welfare, and my research focuses on the economic wellbeing of single-parent families. Much of my work examines …