Home page School of Human Ecology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I am a social scientist who draws on policy analysis, economics, and human ecology to study how public policies affect financial capability, financial decisions, and financial well-being among economically vulnerable populations. I seek to understand what is needed in public policy through which mechanisms …
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 …
Home page Department of African American Studies Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Mosi Adesina Ifatunji is an Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Program for Research on Black Americans, which is located …
Home page Department of Public Affairs Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography As a labor economist, my research focuses on the later-life interactions among health, labor supply decisions, and occupation. This research falls under two CDE primary research areas: Health and the Life Course and Demography of Inequality. Under the area of Health and the Life …
Home page Department of Public Affairs Biography Tana Johnson is a member of the faculty in Public Affairs and Political Science. Her work is driven by big puzzles in international relations and by important real-world problems. In national and international affairs, how do we design institutions, delegate tasks, and manage bureaucracies? How do we navigate tradeoffs …
Biography How do the places we spend time affect our health? How are the interpersonal interactions of everyday life situated in places? How do patterns in the use of social and physical space lead to differences in the health of populations? My research agenda centers on spatially explicit approaches to the relationship between people and …
Home page School of Human Ecology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Kagy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her research is in development economics with a focus on gender, employment in low-income countries, and the impact of early childhood and in-utero health shocks on …
Home page Department of Statistics Additional information Google Scholar profile Biography My training and expertise is in the area of causal inference, instrumental variables (IV)/Mendelian randomization (MR), and econometrics. Throughout the last six years, I have established the theoretical limit of inferring causal effects when the IV/MR assumptions known as the exclusion restriction (i.e. no …
Home page Department of Educational Psychology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography David Kaplan is a Hilldale Professor and Richard L. Venezky Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Kaplan holds affiliate appointments in the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Population Health Sciences and the Center for Demography and Ecology. Dr. Kaplan’s program …
Home page Department of Economics Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography My current position is the Richard Meese Chaired Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I am a labor economist who has published work on wage determination, cyclical employment and wage fluctuations, and migration. My current research is mainly focused on four topics: 1) …