Home page Department of Public Affairs Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Héctor Pifarré i Arolas is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs. An applied population economist, his research lies at the intersection of demography and population economics. He studies the determinants and measurement of the fundamental demographic processes of fertility and mortality. A central theme …
Home page Department of Population Health Sciences Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I am a physician epidemiologist, and Associate Professor at the Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. I maintain a regular, strong, and productive collaboration with investigators around the world. For over a decade my research has been focused in the epidemiology …
Home page School of Social Work Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I am Associate Vice Chancellor for Research in the Social Sciences, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School of Social Work, and former Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on the ways in which …
Home page Department of Sociology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I am an economic, environmental, and urban sociologist interested in questions of stratification and decision making. Empirically, I study residential mobility and immobility, housing costs and housing market intermediaries, and how climate change is impacting housing markets more generally. In my work, I employ various …
Home page Department of Sociology Additional information Curriculum vitae Biography I am currently the Sewell-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) Development Core Director and Research Director of the Fertility, Families, and Households Research Area in CDE. I previously served as the CDE Director from 2016 to …
Home page La Follette School of Public Affairs Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I am a professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. I also conduct research and outreach with the Division of Extension. I study the economic well-being of families. I am an affiliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE), …
Home page Department of Community and Environmental Sociology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Dr. Katherine J. Curtis is Buttel-Sewell Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and the Director of the Center for Demography & Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work is centered in demography and extends to spatial, environmental, rural, and applied demography, …
Home page School of Social Work Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography My research focuses on how the quality, stability and availability of housing interact with and shape the well-being of vulnerable families. As a faculty affiliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology, my research is most closely connected to the research areas of Fertility, …
Home page Department of Sociology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Felix Elwert, Ph.D., is a scholar of social inequality, social demography, and applied statistics. He develops methods of causal inference and conducts research on the contextual drivers of inequality, income, education, and health. Ever on the lookout for ways to coax causality from data, Elwert …
Home page Department of Public Affairs Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Jason Fletcher is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Public Affairs with appointments in Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences. A specialist in health economics, economics of education, social genomics, and child and adolescent health policy, Professor Fletcher focuses his research on examining social …