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 focuses on two main areas: the connection between fertility and labor market outcomes, and health and mortality inequality. He has also worked on evaluating the direct and …
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 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 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 Sociology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I have received over $4 million in competitively-awarded grant money from the National Science Foundation, the Minerva Initiative, and other US government sources to support my research. I have conducted over 30 original surveys in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, the Philippines, and the …
My research examines how gender inequality in adult attainment is structured by specific early life course transitions linked to schooling, sexual initiation, and family formation. I have investigated these processes in a number of populations, but my recent work focuses on how they unfold in Sub-Saharan Africa. My research focuses on three sub-areas: (1) the …
Home page Department of Population Health Sciences Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Selected Publications: Hagiwara, Nao, Conor Duffy, John Cyrus, Nadia Harika, Ginger S. Watson, and Tiffany L. Green. “The nature and validity of implicit bias training for health care providers and trainees: A systematic review.” Science Advances 10, no. 33 (2024): eado5957. Vu, Hoa, Tiffany L. …
Home page School of Human Ecology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I am a sociologist who uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study romantic relationships and low-income families’ finances, as well as government policies directed at both of these areas. My current research includes longitudinally following how mothers who are low income when their child …
Home page Collaborative for Reproductive Equity Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Jenny Higgins is the Bissell Professor of Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she also directs the Division of Reproductive and Population Health. Higgins leads the UW Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (www.core.wisc.edu), an interdisciplinary research initiative that …