Home page Department of Sociology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Jennifer Dykema is Faculty Director of the University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on survey methodology, social science measurement, and the collection of high-quality demographic and population data. Dykema’s research examines how the …
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 Population Health Sciences Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography As an affiliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology, my research focus supports the Center’s initiatives in Biodemography. I am a genetic epidemiologist with nearly 20 years of experience in the study design and data analysis of genetic, demographic, behavioral, physiological, and …
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 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 …