PSTC Faculty Associates at Brown

Director Andrew Foster Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Household and family economics; health economics; economic development; economic demography

Associate Director Leah VanWey Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Migration, land use, and livelihoods, specifically in Brazil; use of mixed-methods approaches

PSTC Faculty Associates at Brown:

Anna Aizer Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Economic determinants of domestic violence

Susan Allen Home Department: Center for Gerontology & Health Care Research Research Interests: Health; disabilities

Nathaniel Baum-Snow Home Department: Economics Research Interests:Trends in the spatial distribution of population and employment in U.S. metropolitan areas

Melani Cammett Home Department: Political Science Research Interests: Comparative politics and political economy; Middle Eastern and North African politics

Kenneth Chay Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Labor and health economics; microeconomics

Rosa Cho Home Department: Education Research Interests: Effect of maternal incarceration on children's educational outcomes; program evaluation; education policy; child and family policy; criminal justice policy as it relates to education

Miao David Chunyu Home Department: Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences and Population Studies Research Interests: Migration; race and ethnicity; urban sociology; spatial analysis

Bianca Dahl Home Department: Anthropology Research Interests: Cultural and medical anthropology; HIV/AIDS in Botswana; the social effects of international humanitarian organizations' efforts to provide aid during Africa's HIV pandemic; orphans and HIV-positive children; changing patterns of social reproduction; subjectivity and sociality in Botswana today

Pedro Dal Bo Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Experimental economics; game theory; political economy

Rachel Franklin Home Department: Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences and Population Studies Research Interests: Fertility and mobility variations across space, with an emphasis on empirical applications; spatial regression modeling; regional analytical tools; GIS; internal migration of the young and educated within the U.S.; the use of migration data from the American Community Survey; regional fertility adjustments in Italy

Rachel Friedberg Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Economics of immigration

Omar Galárraga Home Department: Community Health Research Interests: Applied health economics and health services; HIV treatment and prevention; treatment effects of health and social programs in Mexico and Latin America

Oded Galor Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Evolution and growth; the demographic transition and the take-off from stagnation to sustained economic growth; fertility and growth; inequality and growth

Abigail Harrison Home Department: PSTC Research Interests: HIV prevention and reproductive health in southern Africa; gender; sociocultural responses to the HIV epidemic; adolescent and young adult sexuality and prevention

Justine Hastings Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Applied microeconomics; industrial organization; public economics

Patrick Heller Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Development; democratic deepening; democratic consolidation; politics of decentralization; local democracy; urban transformation; social movements

J. Vernon Henderson Home Department: Economics and Center for Environmental Studies Research Interests: Microeconomics; regional economics

Dennis P. Hogan Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Interrelationships of the family lives of individuals and their social environments; measurement of disability; family consequences of disability; transition to adulthood; family and community factors in fertility and family planning in Ethiopia

Joseph Hogan Home Department: Center for Statistical Sciences, Department of Community Health Research Interests: Methods for longitudinal data; missing data; causal inference; applications in HIV/AIDS; obstetrics & gynecology; behavioral medicine

Marida Hollos Home Department: Anthropology Research Interests: The population of developing countries, especially fertility, migration, and the status of women

James Hull Home Department: ECI Research Interests:Causes and consequences of out-migration at the place of origin; effects of social distance and spatial proximity on the processes of mechanization, intensification, and land use and land cover change

Margot Jackson Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Social stratification; health; child well-being

David I. Kertzer Home Department: Anthropology Research Interests: Anthropological demography; social organization; politics and symbols; political economy and family systems; age structuring; European historical demography; Italian social history; contemporary Italian society and politics

Megan Klein Hattori Home Department: PSTC Research Interests: Transitions to adulthood; role of trust and commitment in condom use and fidelity during the ongoing AIDS epidemic; marriage; infertility

Jessaca Leinaweaver Home Department: Anthropology Research Interests: Social organization; gender; childhood in Latin America

David P. Lindstrom Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Determinants and consequences of out-migration and return migration in migrant communities of origin; determinants of contraceptive use and fertility change in developing countries

John Logan Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Urban sociology; race and ethnicity; migration and immigration; family; political sociology

Eric Loucks Home Department: Community Health Research Interests: Causal associations between educational attainment and health; biological risk factors for coronary heart disease; health and society; social determinants of health and epidemiology

Glenn Loury Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Economic theories of race and inequality; racial affirmative action; dysfunctional social identity; status transmission across generations; cognitive theories of racial stigma

Nancy Luke Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Social aspects of reproductive health, including sexual behavior, HIV/AIDS, and domestic violence; women's empowerment and gender relations in developing countries; marriage, work, and family

Mark Lurie Home Department: Community Health Research Interests: The impact of migration on the spread of HIV; social and behavioral determinants of sexually transmitted infections; social epidemiology; public health impact of antiretroviral therapy

Kenneth Maes Home Department: PSTC Research Interests: Mental health and food insecurity; AIDS care in Ethiopia

Stephen T. McGarvey Home Department: Community Health Research Interests: Human population biology and international health, specifically modernization-induced bio-behavioral changes; tropical medicine; environmental health

Stelios Michalopoulos Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Economic growth and development; macroeconomics; determinants of ethnic group formation

Kaivan Munshi Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Economic development; population and demography; economic analysis of institutions with a particular emphasis on community-based institutions in developing countries

Sriniketh Nagavarapu Home Department: Economics and Center for Environmental Studies Research Interests: Applied microeconomics; development and growth in Brazil

John P. Papay Home Department: Education Research Interests: Educational inequality; determinants of educational success; teacher evaluation policies

Christina Hull Paxson Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Childhood health and economic and health outcomes; children's health and education in Africa; consequences of Hurricane Katrina on the mental and physical health of vulnerable populations

Mark M. Pitt Home Department: PSTC Research Interests: Economic demography issues in the developing world including intra-household resource allocation, fertility, child mortality and health; program evaluation

Anja Sautmann Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Applied microeconomics; development economics; economic theory

David A. Savitz Home Department: Community Health Research Interests: Health risks from environmental exposures; pregnancy and fertility; environmental influence on cancer

Susan E. Short Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Interrelationships between social context, family/household processes, and individual well-being; reproductive behaviors; integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches in demographic research

Daniel Jordan Smith Home Department: Anthropology Research Interests: The relationship between socio-cultural and demographic processes; rural-urban migration; medical anthropology; HIV/AIDS; reproductive health and behavior

Nicholas Townsend Home Department: Anthropology Research Interests: Social reproduction, families and social structure; men's lives in political-economic context; spatially dispersed social groups; the United States and southern Africa

John Tyler Home Department: Education Research Interests: Educational outcomes in different populations; prison-based education programs

Xiaozhou Wang Home Department: Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences and Population Studies Research Interests: Immigration; race and ethnicity; urban sociology

David Weil Home Department: Economics Research Interests: Demographic issues such as health, population aging, and fertility transitions, as well as conventional economic subjects including growth

Michael J. White Home Department: Sociology Research Interests: Population and the environment; ethnic residential segregation; migration; historical infant mortality; immigration

Other PSTC Faculty affiliates

Calvin Goldscheider Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Brown University American University Center for Israel Studies Research Interests: Comparative demography, family, stratification

Frances Goldscheider Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Brown University Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland Research Interests: Households and Family

Craig Hadley Department of Anthropology, Emory University Research Interests: biological anthropology, behavioral ecology, and nutritional anthropology

Naresh Kumar Department of Geography, University of Iowa Research Interests: geospatial analysis and health

Seth Spielman Associate Director, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) Initiative, Brown University Research Interests: geospatial analysis, neighborhood effects on health

Wenquan (Charles) Zhang Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University Research Interests: spatial analysis, residential segregation, assimilation

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