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Jessie Himmelstern is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota and completed interdisciplinary biosocial training at the Minnesota Population Center as a T32 Population Health Sciences predoctoral fellow.

Her research combines theories of social stratification with quantitative, experimental, and demographic methods to examine how inequality in the labor market shapes employment instability, economic insecurity, and health over the life course and across historical periods. Her work has appeared in outlets including Social Forces, Social Science Research, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility