May 29, 2023
PSC graduate trainee Michael Murto wrote his dissertation on the causes of key human capital outcomes in the United States. Beginning with education, he examined how the specific repayment plan structure of student loans changes investment behavior of borrowers and...
May 29, 2023
Alexa Eisenberg is a postdoctoral research fellow with Poverty Solutions. Their research has focused on the injustice of racialized housing policies, financialization, and austerity – especially as these structures manifest through mass tax foreclosures, evictions,...
May 29, 2023
Lydia Wileden holds a PhD in Sociology and Public Policy from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on measuring neighborhood perceptions and reputation and documenting processes of neighborhood change. In 2020, Wileden worked with Jeffrey Morenoff to...
May 29, 2023
Julie Ober Allen’s research seeks to better understand and address the complex interactions between contextual, psychosocial, biological, and behavioral factors involved in stress and coping processes that contribute to disparities in chronic disease among older...
May 29, 2023
Angela Bruns is a scholar of sociology and criminology whose research focuses on how families’ interactions with two social institutions—mass incarceration and the low-wage labor market—impact their health and economic well-being. She teaches courses on gender,...
