Home page Department of Sociology Additional information Google Scholar profile Biography Mike’s work focuses on the social consequences of the expansion of the penal system, the relationship between the use of legal controls and demographic change in the United States, and patterns and consequences of criminal behavior over the life course. Mike’s work has been …
Home page Department of Economics Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Corina Mommaerts is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an applied microeconomist, her research focuses on insurance against risks over the life course, particularly related to health and aging. Insurance against these risks takes many forms, including …
Home page Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Priya Mukherjee is an assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is a research fellow at IZA-Institute of Labor Economics, and an affiliate at the Center for South Asia. Prof. Mukherjee’s primary research …
Home page Department of Population Health Sciences Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography I am a health economist and Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with affiliate appointments in: the La Follette School of Public Affairs; the Department of Risk and Insurance in the Wisconsin School of Business; the Center for Demography …
Home page School of Social Work Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Alejandra Ros Pilarz’s research agenda aims to improve the wellbeing of working families with low-incomes through policy-relevant research. She investigates the effects of parental employment and children’s early care and education contexts on family wellbeing and child development, with a focus on the role …
Home page School of Social Work Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Weidi Qin is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in social work, gerontology, and social epidemiology. Her program of research is focused on contextual factors of cardiometabolic diseases (especially diabetes) and independent living among community-dwelling older adults. In particular, she is interested in understanding how environmental …
Home page Department of Sociology More information Curriculum Vitae Biography My research examines disparities in mental, physical, and material well-being. I am interested in both how these inequalities are influenced by macrosocial forces (including economic and political institutions), as well as how they are generated in proximate contexts via the interplay of biological and social …
Biography I work at the intersection of Social Stratification, Population, Sociology of Education, Community and Urban Sociology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity subfields. My core research focuses on the relationship between residential attainment and access to educational opportunity in the US, though I have projects that range across many domains of inequality.
Home page School of Human Ecology Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography My research examines the ways in which birth, child, family characteristics, and public policies influence children’s cognitive and social-emotional development as well as family well-being. I am also interested in applications of quantitative research methods and study design in developmental and family sciences, and …