Faculty

Anna Aizer

Associate Professor of Economics

Child health and well-being, Determinants of domestic violence, Labor and health economics

Susan M. Allen

Professor of Health Services Policy & Practice

Aging, Disabilities, Gender, Health

Nathaniel Baum-Snow

Associate Professor of Economics

Education, Housing, Labor economics, Land use patterns, Spatial analysis, Transportation, Urbanization

Melani Cammett

Associate Professor of Political Science

Comparative politics and political economy, Middle Eastern and North African politics

Kenneth Chay

Professor of Economics

Community health, Labor and health economics, Microeconomics

Pedro Dal Bó

Associate Professor of Economics

Experimental economics, Game theory, Political economy

Andrew Foster

Director of the Population Studies & Training Center

Development, Education, Environmental management, Fertility, Households, Institutions, Labor economics, Marriage

Rachel Franklin

Associate Director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)

Fertility, GIS, Migration, Regional analytical tools, Spatial regression modeling

Rachel Friedberg

Senior Lecturer of Economics

Economics of immigration

Omar Galárraga

Assistant Professor of Health Services Policy & Practice

Conditional economic incentives, Health and social programs, HIV treatment and prevention

Oded Galor

Professor of Economics

Demographic transition, Economic growth, Evolution, Fertility, Inequality

Abigail Harrison

Assistant Professor (Research) of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Behavioral intervention research, Ethnographic research, Fertility, Gender, Global reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, Non-marital unions, Qualitative and quantitative methods, Sexuality, Transition to adulthood

Justine Hastings

Associate Professor of Economics

Behavioral economics, Firm strategy, Industrial organization, Public economics, Public policy, Regulation

Patrick Heller

Professor of Sociology

Comparative political economy, Democratization, Development, Political sociology, Social movements

J. Vernon Henderson

Professor of Economics and Urban Studies

Microeconomics, Regional economics

Dennis P. Hogan

Professor of Sociology

Disability, Family lives, Fertility and family planning, Transition to adulthood

Joseph Hogan

Professor of Biostatistics

Behavioral medicine, Causal inference, HIV/AIDS, Longitudinal data analysis, Missing data

Marida Hollos

Professor of Anthropology

Fertility, Gender, Infertility, Motherhood

Margot Jackson

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Child well-being, Health, Nutrition, Social stratification

David Kertzer

Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies

Anthropological demography, Contemporary Italian society and politics, European historical demography, Political economy and family systems, Politics and culture, Religion

Jessaca Leinaweaver

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Childhood in Latin America, Gender, Households, Kinship, Social organization

David P. Lindstrom

Professor of Sociology

Contraception, Fertility, Migration, Reproductive health

John Logan

Director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)

Family, Immigration, Migration, Political sociology, Race and ethnicity, Spatial analysis, Urban sociology

Eric Loucks

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Biomarkers, Coronary heart disease, Education, Epidemiology, Health

Glenn C. Loury

Professor of Economics

Cognitive theories of racial stigma, Dysfunctional social identity, Race and inequality, Racial affirmative action, Status transmission across generations

Nancy Luke

Associate Professor of Sociology

Africa and South Asia, Family, Gender, Migration, Remittances, Sexual reproductive and child health, Social and economic exchange, Social demography

Mark Lurie

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Antiretroviral therapy, HIV/AIDS, Migration, Social epidemiology

Stephen McGarvey

Professor (Research) of Epidemiology and Anthropology

Environmental health, Global health, Human population biology, Non-communicable diseases, Nutrition transition, Tropical parasitology

Stelios Michalopoulos

Assistant Professor of Economics

Determinants of ethnic group formation, Development, Economic growth, Macroeconomics

Kaivan Munshi

Professor of Economics

Economic development, Institutions, Population and demography, Social networks

Sriniketh Nagavarapu

Assistant Professor of Economics

Applied microeconomics, Development, Economic growth, Labor economics

John Papay

Assistant Professor of Education

Consequences of state tests, Postsecondary education choices, Teacher career growth, Teacher hiring and evaluation practices

Christina Hull Paxson

President of Brown University

Aging, Child health and well-being, Health, Inequality, Labor economics, Life course

Mark M. Pitt

Professor of Population Studies

Adult outcomes, Gender, Health, Households, Micro-credit programs, Nutrition

Anja Sautmann

Assistant Professor of Economics

Development, Experimental economics, Marriage, Microeconomics

David A. Savitz

Professor of Epidemiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology

Environmental influence on cancer, Fertility, Health risks from environmental exposures, Pregnancy

Susan E. Short

Professor of Sociology

Family, Gender, Households, Inequality, Methods, Reproductive health, Social demography

Daniel Jordan Smith

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Anthropological demography, HIV/AIDS, Medical anthropology, Migration, Religion, Reproductive health and behavior

Nicholas Townsend

Associate Professor (Research) of Population Studies

Families and social structure, Social reproduction, Spatially dispersed social groups, United States and southern Africa

John Tyler

Professor of Education

Economics of education, Evaluation Research, Quantitative methods

Leah VanWey

Associate Director of the Population Studies & Training Center

Demography, Households, Migration, Population and environment

David Weil

Professor of Economics

Economic growth, Fertility transitions, Health, Population aging

Michael J. White

Professor of Sociology

Africa, Demography, Environment, Immigration, Social policy, Urban sociology

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