Michael Brien is a senior manager in the Economic and Statistical Consulting group in Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP’s Forensic & Dispute Services practice. He has conducted research in labor economics, policy analysis, and economic demography and has been published in peer-reviewed economics journals. His litigation work includes cases related to pharmaceutical rebates, employment and credit discrimination, and insurance liability disputes stemming from asbestos claims. He earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago.
Robert M. Goerge is a research fellow at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. Central to his research is the goal of improving the available information on all children and families, but particularly those who are abused or neglected, disabled, poor, require mental health services, or come to the attention of service providers. He is the principal investigator of the Integrated Database on Children’s Services in Illinois project. In addition to his work on children’s services, he has recently begun to focus on how the provision of services to children and their wellbeing is affected by neighborhood conditions. He also has conducted research on understanding the effects of out-of-school programs on youth.
Jeffrey Grogger is the Irving Harris Professor in Urban Policy in the Harris School. He specializes in labor economics, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, and economics of crime. His recent work has examined the effects of welfare time limits and racial profiling. He is a coeditor of the Journal of Human Resources and an associate editor for the Journal of Population Economics.
Allen W. Harden is a senior researcher with the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. His areas of research interest include child welfare, poverty, urban ecology, and social change.
Robert H. Haveman is John Bascom Emeritus Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is also a research associate in the Institute for Research on Poverty. He is also an adjunct professor at Australia National University, Canberra. His research is in the economics of poverty and social poverty, where he has published widely. His most recent book is Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization (with Andrew Bershadker and Jonathan A. Schwabish), published by the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
V. Joseph Hotz is the Arts and Sciences Professor of Economics at Duke University. His areas of specialization are labor economics, economic demography, evaluation of the impact of social programs, and applied econometrics, and he has published extensively in these areas. Hotz is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a research associate of the National Poverty Center, the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Bong Joo Lee is associated with Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and the Department of Social Welfare at Seoul National University. His research interests are the statistical modeling of the patterns of human service use, issues of childhood poverty, and demography of children and families.
Jennifer Manlove is a senior research scientist and area director for Fertility and Family Structure at Child Trends. She is a sociologist and has worked on multiple projects examining relationship context, sexual activity, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and childbearing among adolescents and young adults. She has also been involved in research identifying effective pregnancy prevention and STI-prevention programs.
Susan Williams McElroy is associate professor of economics and education policy at the University of Texas at Dallas, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences. She has conducted research on and written about the economic and social consequences of teenage pregnancy and childbearing, economics of education, and poverty and economic inequality. She received her Ph.D. in economics of education from Stanford University.
Lisa Mincieli is a project analyst at Harvard University. Before her position at Harvard, she was a research analyst at Child Trends. She has conducted research on teen and nonmarital childbearing, unintended childbearing, and adolescent sexual behavior.
Kristin Anderson Moore, a social psychologist, is a senior scholar and Senior Program Area Director of the Research-to-Results program area at Child Trends. She has been with Child Trends since 1982, studying trends in child and family well-being, the effects of family structure and social change on children, the determinants and consequences of adolescent parenthood, fatherhood, the effects of welfare and welfare reform on children, and positive development. From 1992 to 2006, she served as president, before choosing to return to full-time research. In recent years, Dr. Moore has established the Research-to-Results program at Child Trends, which focuses on the conceptualization, design, implementation, improvement, evaluation, and dissemination of information about effective programs to policymakers, funders, practitioners, and other researchers. For 10 years, she was a principal investigator on the Family and Child Well-being Research Network established by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to examine factors that enhance the development and well-being of children.
Elaine Peterson is associate professor in economics at California State University, Stanislaus. She has been a research assistant in the Financial Structure Section of the Federal Reserve Board and the Institute for Research on Poverty. Her research includes work on neighborhood quality and children’s success, and on policy-related determinants of teen nonmarital childbearing. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Emilie McHugh Rivers received her master’s degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is currently a staff economist at Laurits R. Christensen Associates.
Seth G. Sanders is professor of economics and public policy studies in the department of economics and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. He has four broad research programs: the economic consequences of teenage childbearing on women and children, economic shocks and the effects on workers and families, gay and lesbian families and their performance in the U.S. economy, and gender and racial wage differences among the highly educated. His work combines insights from many fields and has appeared in economics, sociology, and statistics journals.
Elizabeth Terry-Humen is a research scientist at Child Trends. She has conducted research on adolescent sexual activity, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and childbearing. She received a master’s in public policy from Georgetown University.
Robert J. Willis is professor of economics at the University of Michigan, where he also is a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research and research associate of the Population Studies Center. Willis is currently the principal investigator on two large longitudinal surveys, the Health and Retirement Survey and the Assets and Health of the Oldest Old Survey, which are collecting data on Americans over age 50. He is an authority on the economics of the family, marriage, fertility, labor economics, human capital and population, and economic development.
Barbara Wolfe is professor of economics and preventive medicine and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are poverty, health economics, and disabilities. She is coauthor, with Robert Haveman, of Succeeding Generations: On the Effects of Investments in Children (Russell Sage Foundation, 1994) and has published widely in professional journals and edited monographs.
Lauren Sue Scher is a professional research consultant to several leading research firms and the federal government on educational and social research and evaluation projects and is a founding partner of Concentric Research & Evaluation. She has worked on a number of projects related to reducing adolescent childbearing including participating in a systematic research synthesis of the effectiveness of teen pregnancy prevention programs. She earned a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Pennsylvania.
