Research Affiliates
Our Research Affiliates are scholars from a range of disciplines, including sociology, economics, political science, and psychology.
These Affiliates contribute to our working paper series and participate in conferences, policy roundtables, or other activities.
Learn more about becoming an NPC Research Affiliate.
Gregory P. Acs
Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
Randy Albelda
Professor of Economics, Economics Department, University of Massachusetts Boston; Senior Research Fellow, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Scott W. Allard
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and Department of Economics, Duke University
David Bjerk
Assistant Professor, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna College
Bruce Bradbury
Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Mike Brewer
Program Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Thomas W. Brock
Director, Young Adults and Postsecondary Education, MDRC
Evelyn Z. Brodkin
Associate Professor, School of Social
Service Administration, University of Chicago
Marcia J. Carlson
Associate Professor, Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John H. Cawley
Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Michael E. Chernew
Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Rebekah Levine Coley
Associate Professor, Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology Department, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
Rachel E. Dunifon
Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Marilyn Edelhoch
Independent Consultant; Director, Research and Evaluation, South Carolina Department of Social Services (Retired)
Robert W. Fairlie
Professor and Director of Masters Program in Applied Economics and Finance, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Steven B. Garasky
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University
Lisa A. Gennetian
Senior Research Director, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution
Christina M. Gibson-Davis
Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Sociology and Psychology and Neuroscience, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Craig Gundersen
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois
Colleen M. Heflin
Assistant Professor, Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs,
University of Missouri-Columbia
Julia R. Henly
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Derek S. Hyra
Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Virginia Tech University
John Iceland
Professor of Sociology and Demography, Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice, Pennsylvania State University
Alison Jacknowitz
Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy and MPP Director, School of Public Affairs, American University
Markus Jantti
Professor of Economics, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
Rukmalie Jayakody
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Sociology, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University; Associate Director, Population Research Institute
Rucker C. Johnson
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Dean Jolliffe
Senior Economist, Economic Policy and Poverty Team, The World Bank, South Asia Region
Ariel Kalil
Director, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy; Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Laura Leete
Assistant Professor, Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon
Phillip B. Levine
Class of 1919 Professor, Department of Economics, Wellesley College
Daniel T. Lichter
Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Professor of Sociology and Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies, Cornell University; Director, Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, Cornell University
Brenda J. Lohman
Associate Professor, Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Iowa State University
Rebecca London
Senior Researcher, The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, Stanford University
Leonard M. Lopoo
Associate Professor of Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University; Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Darren H. Lubotsky
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, and School of Labor and Employment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jens Otto Ludwig
McCormick Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy, School of Social Service and the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago; Co-Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab
Katherine A. Magnuson
Assistant Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin
Jordan D. Matsudaira
Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Yolanda C. Padilla
Professor of Social Work and Women's Studies, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin
Karen F. Parker
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware
Robert D. Plotnick
Professor of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington
Elizabeth T. Powers
Associate Professor of Economics and Faculty Member, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Steven Raphael
Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer L. Romich
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Ezra Rosser
Associate Professor, American University Washington College of Law
Kevin M. Roy
Associate Professor, Family Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park
Lucie Schmidt
Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Chair, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Williams College
Sanford F. Schram
Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Social Work, Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Williams College
Sandra Susan Smith
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Michael A. Stoll
Chair, Department of Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning, School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles; Associate Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty
James X. Sullivan
Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Econometrics, University of Notre Dame
Christopher A. Swann
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
Robert L. Wagmiller, Jr.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Robert Walker
Professor of Social Policy and Deputy Head of Department, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford; Fellow, Green Templeton College
Parke E. Wilde
Associate Professor, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Anne E. Winkler
Professor of Economics and Public Policy Administration, Department of Economics, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Michael L. Wiseman
Research Professor of Public Policy, and Economics, George Washington University Institute of Public Policy
W. Jean Yeung
Professor, Department of Sociology and Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore