Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study Research Associates

Sara McLanahan
Ph.D. 1979 University of Texas, Sociology. Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research; founder and Director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. Interests: Child development, child wellbeing, parenting, education, poverty, and family and community influences on the development of young children. PI on the "Fragile Families Study."

 

	Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Ph.D. 1975 University of Pennsylvania, Developmental Psychology. Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development at Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University;  Founding Director and current Co-director, National Center for Children & Families.  Interests:  Child development, parenting and poverty.  PI on "Child Care & Parental Employment in Fragile Families."
	Marcia Carlson Ph.D. 1999 University of Michigan, Sociology. Associate Professor of Sociology and Afilliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology and Insitutte for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Interests:  Family structure and parenting, child and adolescent wellbeing, social policy.  PI on "Family Structure, Parenting and Child Wellbeing."
	Janet Currie Ph.D. 1988 Princeton University, Economics. Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Director of the Center for Health and Well-Being. Research Associate, CRCW. Interests: health and well-being of children, early intervention programs, public housing, and food and nutrition programs. PI on "Fragile Families Study".
	Michelle DeKlyen Ph.D. 1992 University of Washington, Child Clinical Psychology. Associate Research Scholar, CRCW, CHW, and OPR, Princeton University.  Interests:  Child development, early child behavior disorders, child learning disabilities.   PI on "Newark Fragile Families Study."
	Kathryn Edin Ph.D. 1991 Northwestern University, Sociology. Professor of Public Policy Management, Kennedy School, Harvard University.  Interests: Poverty/social inequality, family/gender, public policy.  PI on "Couple Dynamics and Father Investments."
	Paula England Ph.D. 1975 University of Chicago, Sociology.  Professor of Sociology, New York University.  Interests:  Gender inequality, households and families, labor markets.  PI on "Couple Dynamics and Father Investments."
	Frank Furstenberg Ph.D. 1967 Columbia University, Sociology.  Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology and Research associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.  Interests:  Family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, and urban education.  PI on "Transitions to Adulthood."
	Irv Garfinkel Ph.D. 1970 University of Michigan, Social Work and Economics.  Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia School of Social Work.  Interests:  Social policy and the welfare state, poverty and inequality, single parent families, child support.  PI on "Fragile Families Study."
	Kristen Harknett Ph.D. 2002 Princeton University, Sociology and Demography. Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Interests: Social demography, marriage and family, poverty. Co-Instructor of "Quantitative and Qualitative Research Using Fragile Families Data."
	Waldo Johnson Ph.D. 1993 University of Chicago, Social Work. Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. Interests: male involvement in adolescent pregnancy, nonresident fathers in fragile families, and the physical and psychosocial health statuses of African American males. Fragile Families Network Scholar.
	Daniel Notterman M.A. 1977 Tufts University, M.D. 1978 New York University School of Medicine. Associate Vice President for Research and Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University; Professor of Pediatrics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Interests: Cancer biology, gene-environment interactions, health policy, children’s access to quality health care. Director of DNA component of the "Fragile Families Study."
	Jean Knab Ph.D. 2004 Princeton University, Sociology. Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Interests: Social policy, poverty and inequality, the family, and child wellbeing.
	Ron Mincy Ph.D. 1987 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Economics. Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice and Director of the Center for Research on Fathers, Children, and Family Wellbeing at Columbia University.  Interests: Family support, income security policy, U.S. labor market, urban poverty. PI on "Fragile Families Study."
	Yolanda Padilla Ph.D. 1992 University of Michigan, Social Work and Sociology.  Professor of Social Work and Women's Studies, University of Texas at Austin.  Interests: Mexican American studies in children and families, poverty, and immigration.  PI on "Mexican American Child Health: Birth to Early Childhood."
	Nancy Reichman Ph.D. 1993 City University of New York, Economics. Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University, 2012-203; Professor of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at Princeton University.  Interests: Infant and child health, poverty, research methods.  PI on "Fragile Families and Child Health, " "Effects of Child Health on Family Resources" & "Effects of Prental Care on Pediatric Health Care."
	Lauren Rich Ph.D. University of Michigan, Economics. Senior Researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Philadelphia. Interests: Child poverty, youth employment, adolescent childbearing. Fragile Families Network Scholar.
	Mario Small Ph.D. 2001 Harvard University, Sociology. Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago.  Interests: Inequality and culture, urban poverty and immigration, neighborhood effects, higher education.  PI on “Child Care Centers and Social Capital.”
	Julien Teitler Ph.D. 1996 University of Pennsylvania, Sociology. Associate Professor of Social Work and Sociology at the School of Social Work at Columbia University and Director of the Social Indicators Survey Center at Columbia University.  Research Interests: Adolescent transitions, family policy, welfare reform.  PI on "Fragile Families and Child Health."
	Marta Tienda Ph.D. 1977 University of Texas, Sociology. Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Research Associate at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Interests:  Population and development, youth employment and labor market dynamics, race and ethnic stratification, access to higher education. Fragile Families Study collaborator and Youth Policy associate.
	Jane Waldfogel Ph.D. 1994 Harvard, Public Policy. Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs at Columbia University; Visiting Professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics.  Interests:  Child and family well-being, comparative Social Welfare policy, child protective services and child welfare policy.  PI on "Economic Status, Public Policy and Child Neglect."
	Maureen Waller Ph.D. 1997 Princeton University, Sociology. Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University.  Interests:  Marriage, fatherhood, and child support in low-income communities.   Fragile Families Network Scholar and PI on "'Fathers' Ties to Unmarried Mothers & their Children."
	Bruce Western Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Sociology. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.  Interests:  Political and comparative sociology, stratification and inequality, and methodology.  PI on "Fatherhood & Incarceration."
	Brad Wilcox Ph.D.2001 Princeton University, Sociology.  Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. Interests: religion and marriage, cohabitation, parenting, and fatherhood. PI on the "Fragile Families Study."
	Melvin Wilson Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.  Interests: young, low-income, unwed, and nonresident fathers. Fragile Families Network Scholar.