Home page Department of Sociology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Engelman’s research combines perspectives from the social sciences and public health to examine the social determinants of health and longevity. She is particularly interested in how social stratification (by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, nativity, and geography) manifests in health and mortality inequities. Engelman is the Director of the …
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 …
Home page Department of Economics Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I am the Mary Claire Aschenbrenner Phipps Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My broad research area is empirical microeconomics that combines economic theories and econometrics tools to study policy relevant questions. My research covers a wide range of topics, including education, urban …
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 …
Home page Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography My research focuses on distributional impacts of environmental policy and regulation, and the political economy of environmental regulations. My research is mostly empirical, utilizing modern econometric methods to study the causal effects of environmental regulations on different income or demographic groups. These …
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 Department of Economics Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography My current research is in Public, Labor, and Urban Economics. My work focuses on optimal policy design in economic models that allow for social interactions and structural inference of individuals responses to policies that target particular geographic locations. Substantive applications include assessing the impacts of …
Home page Department of Sociology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I am Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, co-director of EdSHARe (Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research, an umbrella that includes the national cohort studies High School and Beyond and the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972) and Co-Director of the Madison Education Partnership, a research-practice partnership …
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 …