Home page School of Social Work Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Professor Robert’s research focuses on how social and economic aspects of people’s lives affect their health and well-being over the life course. Many of her publications focus on how neighborhood context affects health and contributes to socioeconomic and racial health disparities. Her focus is …
Home page Department of Economics Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography My research looks at how social preferences impact economic outcomes in developing countries and how they can be harnessed to improve outcomes. Exposure to risk and limits placed on collective action by lack of trust both keep people poor and decrease health and economic well-being. …
Home page Department of Public Affairs Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Lauren Schmitz is an associate professor of public affairs. She uses social, genomic, and epigenomic data to study how social inequalities shape disparities in health and socioeconomic attainment. Much of her work in this area has used quasi-experimental research designs and polygenic scores to …
Home page Personal Website Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography My research interests fall at the intersection of family demography, stratification, and gender. Much of my work examines the causes and consequences of assortative mating to gain insight into the links between family change and inequality in the United States. Another line of research examines the …
Home page Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Dr. Leigh Senderowicz (she/her) is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights, race, gender, and coloniality. Her mixed-methods research focuses on contraceptive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and …
Home page Department of Economics Additional information Google Scholar profile Biography My background, expertise and substantive interests fit well with the ambitions of Wisconsin’s Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE), and my work is especially related to the Demography of Inequality. My large body of work on both experimental and non-experimental methods for estimating the …
Home page Department of Economics Additional information Curriculum Vitae Biography Most of my research has been devoted towards understanding the determinants of wages and wage inequality. This includes changes over time in the wage distribution, wage dynamics across the lifecycle, and pre-labor market investment in human capital (education). This research agenda overlaps substantially with the …