Senior Research Affiliates
Our Senior Research Affiliates are nationally-recognized scholars with established reputations from across a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, economics, political science, medicine, and psychology. Senior Research Affiliates contribute to our Working Paper Series, speak at NPC events, and participate in coordinated research projects.
Larry Aber
Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University Steinhardt School of Education
Eloise Anderson
President, Job Wave America
Douglas Besharov
Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Affairs and Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies, The American Enterprise Institute
Rebecca Blank
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institute
Barbara Blum
Director, Research Forum, Columbia University
George J. Borjas
Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Maria Cancian
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Public Affairs and School of Social Work
Kerwin Charles
Steans Family Professor, The Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Andrew Cherlin
Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Janet Currie
Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Columbia University
Greg Duncan
Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy; Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Kathryn Edin
Professor of Public Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
David T. Ellwood
Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Charles Fluharty
RUPRI Co-Director, Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri - Columbia
Irwin Garfinkel
Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia University School of Social Work
Peter T. Gottschalk
Professor, Boston College, Department of Economics
Judith Gueron
Independent Scholar in Residence, MDRC
David R. Harris
Deputy Provost, Vice Provost for Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
Ron Haskins
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Senior Consultant, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Harry Holzer
Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
V. Joseph Hotz
Professor, Duke University Department of Economics
Hilary Williamson Hoynes
Professor of Economics, University of California - Davis Department of Economics
Paul A. Jargowsky
Professor of Public Policy, University of Texas-Dallas
Christopher Jencks
Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Jacob Klerman
Senior Economist RAND, Director RAND Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy, Professor of Economics, RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies
Glenn Loury
University Professor, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University
Thomas MaCurdy
Professor, Stanford University Department of Economics
Susan E. Mayer
Professor and Dean, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Sara McLanahan
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs; Director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School
David Meltzer
Associate Professor, University of Chicago, School of Medicine, School of Public Policy, and Department of Economics
Marcia K. Meyers
Associate Professor, University of Washington, School of Social Work and Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs; Director, West Coast Poverty Center
Ronald Mincy
Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, Columbia University, School of Social Work
Robert A. Moffitt
Professor, Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics
Katherine S. Newman
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Demetra Smith Nightingale
Principal Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies
Melvin L. Oliver
Professor and Dean of Social Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mary E. Pattillo
Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University
LaDonna Pavetti
Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research
Harold Pollack
Faculty Chair, Center for Health Administration Studies, Associate Professor, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Stephen Raudenbush
Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Philip K. Robins
Professor of Economics, University of Miami
William Rodgers
Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Chief Economist, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
Isabel V. Sawhill
Senior Fellow and Cabot Family Chair, the Brookings Institution
John Karl Scholz
Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison Department of Economics; Director, Institute for Research on Poverty
Timothy M. Smeeding
Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Administration and Director, Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University
Jane Waldfogel, Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work
Bruce Weber
Professor, Oregon State University Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics; Co-Director, RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University JFK School of Government
Barbara L. Wolfe
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Departments of Population Health Sciences, Economics and Public Affairs
James P. Ziliak
Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics and Director, University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research