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Social Inequality Experts

Experts: Social Inequality

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Education and InequalityPolitical Inequality

Sheldon Danziger

TITLE
Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, G. Ford School of Public Policy

AFFILIATION
University of Michigan

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Poverty and inequality; the effects of economic, demographic changes and government social programs on disadvantaged groups; welfare reform; the material well-being of single mothers

CONTACT INFORMATION
734-615-8321

sheldond [at] umich [dot] edu

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Greg Duncan

TITLE
Distinguished Professor of Education

AFFILIATION
University of California, Irvine

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Income distribution; child poverty; welfare dependence; neighborhood poverty and child development; skills and behaviors developed during childhood

CONTACT INFORMATION
949-824-7831

gduncan [at] uci [dot] edu

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Peter Enns

TITLE
Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University

AFFILIATION
Cornell University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Public opinion; polling; representation; partisanship

CONTACT INFORMATION
607-255-3574

pe52 [at] cornell [dot] edu

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Richard Murnane

TITLE
Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society

AFFILIATION
Harvard University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Labor economics; education policy; technological change, skill demands and the U.S. economy; inequality and education

CONTACT INFORMATION
617-496-4820

richard_murnane [at] gse [dot] harvard [dot] edu

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Sean Reardon

TITLE
Associate Professor of Sociology

AFFILIATION
Stanford University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of social and educational inequality; residential and school segregation; racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in academic achievement; income inequality and its educational and social consequences; early childhood education

CONTACT INFORMATION
650-736-8517

sean [dot] reardon [at] stanford [dot] edu

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Timothy Smeeding

TITLE
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics

AFFILIATION
Unversity of Wisconsin, Madison

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
The economics of public policy, especially social policy and at-risk populations; poverty, income and wealth distribution, income transfers and tax policy; social and economic mobility; social statistics; comparative international social policy

CONTACT INFORMATION
608-890-1317

smeeding [at] lafollette [dot] wisc [dot] edu

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