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Jessie Himmelstern
About:
Jessie Himmelstern is a PSC postdoctoral fellow whose research interests center around family demography, health disparities, and social stratification.
One of Himmelstern’s projects explores the relationship between parental income during childhood and later life health, with an aim of understanding the impact of persistent poverty during childhood. Jessie’s second project examines couple’s leave patterns after the birth of a child. This project uses data from the Current Population Survey to explore changes in trends from 1980-2018.
A sociologist and alumna of the Minnesota Population Center, Himmelstern also holds an MA in Quantitative Research Analysis (2014) from New York University.