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| PAST HARVARD SCHOLARS |
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| Cohorts XIV & XIII
L to R: Front Row: Laura Evans, Gopi Shah Goda; Middle Row: Damon Centola, Susan Moffitt, Wesley Yin, Nicole Esparza; Back Row: Radha Iyengar, Avi Ebenstein, Rodney Andrews
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Damon Centola received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2006, where he was an IGERT fellow in non-linear dynamics and chaos. His research interests include the diffusion of innovations and cultural traits, the mobilization of social movements, and the segregation and stratification of social groups. His dissertation research, which has been published in Physica A and the American Journal of Sociology , uses techniques from statistical physics, agent-based modeling, and network theory to study the dynamics of collective action. As a scholar, he will work on the policy implications of diffusion dynamics in health care.
Phone: 617-496-6075
Fax: 617-496-1636
dcentola@rwj.harvard.edu
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Radha Iyengar received her Ph.D. in economics from the Princeton University in 2006. Her primary fields of interest are labor economic and public finance. In her dissertation she analyzed attorney performance in the Federal indigent defense system. In her previous work she studied the effect of Three-Strikes law in California on the propensity to commit violent crime and the effect of mandatory arrest law for intimate partner abuse on domestic violence. She has also worked extensively with the National Network to End Domestic Violence to help develop and provide empirical support for federal domestic violence policy. As a scholar, Dr. Iyengar is interested in studying the effect of criminal justice policy and drug and gun markets and the effectiveness of these laws on improving mortality and morbidity in disadvantaged populations. She is also interested in studying the relationship between labor market structures and insurance coverage and the role this relationship has in generating and preserving the health gradient in the United States.
Phone: 617-496-6085
Fax: 617-496-1636
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Susan Moffitt received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 2005. Her research focuses on public bureaucracies and government regulation, with particular emphasis on informational approaches to regulation. She has co-authored work on policy implementation, and she is currently completing two book projects. One book considers government agencies' choices about secrecy and publicity and how those choices bear on agencies' regulatory goals. The second book is a co-authored study of ambitious social policy reform and the learning such reform requires of implementers and regulatory targets. While a scholar at Harvard, her research will examine the choices the Food and Drug Administration makes to promote agency and public learning about approved drugs' safety and efficacy.
Phone: 617-496-6219
Fax: 617-496-1636
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Wesley Yin received a Ph.D in economics from Princeton University in 2005. He is currently on leave from the University of Chicago where he is an assistant professor at the Harris School of Public Policy. Dr. Yin has worked on a wide range of topics in microeconomics. In recent work, he has studied the economics of innovation, the diffusion of medical technology, savings behavior, and information in credit markets. As a Program scholar at Harvard, Dr. Yin will investigate models of technology adoption for both health care providers and consumers in order to study to study the impact of medical innovations on health behaviors and quality of medical care.
Phone: 617-496-6070
Fax: 617-496-1636
wyin@rwj.harvard.edu
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Cohorts X & XI
Top row (left to right): Katherine Swartz, Nicholas Christakis, Peter Marsden
Middle row (left to right): Jason Barabas, Joshua Guetzkow, Julia Lynch, Joe Newhouse,
Erica Field (below Julia Lynch), Katherine Carman (below Joe Newhouse)
Bottom row (left to right): Gary King, Debra Javeline, Wendy Cadge, Cynthia Perry
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Jake Bowers earned a Ph.D in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently an assistant professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan. He is also a faculty associate in the Center for Political Studies and a faculty affiliate in the Quantitative Methodology Program at the Institute for Social Research there. His research focuses on methodology and on the behavior of individual people. He is Currently working on (1) applications of randomization inference and matching to political science problems --- particularly those involving small, non-random samples and clustered or multilevel data --- and (2) a framework for studying what precipitates episodes of political participation in the lives of ordinary citizens. He will continue to pursue these interests in methodology and behavior as a Scholar in the Program. Bowers plans to study research designs and statistical methods that allow simple yet confident determinations of the causal effects of policy manipulations or changes in institutional context on individual political and health behavior.
Phone: 617-495-5286
Fax: 617-496-1636
jbowers@rwj.harvard.edu
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Jeremy Freese is currently on leave from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is an associate professor of sociology. He completed his Ph.D. in sociology at Indiana University in 2000. His primary research interests are in social psychology, technology, and the relationship between biological and social processes. He has published articles in journals including the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, the Annual Review of Sociology, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. He is also co-author of a book on using statistical software for a range of common social and health science applications.
Phone: 617-495-5366
Fax: 617-496-1636
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Lei Jin received her PhD in sociology from The University of Chicago in 2005. Her research interests include the sociology of professions, the sociology of scientific knowledge and medical sociology. Her dissertation examines the implications of evidence-based medicine movement, often advocated as a new paradigm in the practice of scientific medicine, in physicians' work and physicians' attitude toward this movement. As a scholar, Dr. Jin will study how the proliferation of medical knowledge in the lay public influences the patterns of medical practice, patient-doctor interaction, and unequal access to medical treatments.
Phone: 617-495-5365
Fax: 617-496-1636
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Kathleen Mullen received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 2005. Her primary field of interest is applied microeconometrics. In her dissertation she analyzed models of food consumption of food stamp participants and their effectiveness in informing public policy. In her previous work she studied determinants of educational attainment and the effect of schooling on achievement test scores. Currently, she is examining the effectiveness of pay-for-performance programs, which tie monetary incentives for physician groups to their performance on evidence-based quality measures, as a tool for improving the quality of healthcare providers.
Phone: 617-495-5296
Fax: 617-496-1636
kmullen@rwj.harvard.edu
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Jason Barabas (Ph.D., Northwestern University , Political Science) was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and recently accepted a position in the department of political science at Florida State University. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Analysis, International Studies Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and in edited volumes from Oxford University Press and Routledge. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar, Dr. Barabas will study how citizens learn about health issues from the mass media as well as public opinion toward the privatization of health care and retirement in America .
Phone: 617-496-6075
Fax: 617-496-1636
jbarabas@rwj.harvard.edu
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Wendy Cadge completed her Ph.D. in sociology at Princeton University and will join the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University in the fall of 2006. Her research interests center around religious pluralism, immigration, and gender and sexuality in the contemporary United States. Her first book, Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America is an ethnographic study of a Thai Buddhist temple in Philadelphia and a convert Buddhist center in Cambridge , Massachusetts. She has also published articles about Asian religions in America, public conflicts over homosexuality, religion and the nonprofit sector in the United States, religion and immigration, and other topics in Social Science Quarterly, Sociology of Religion, American Behavioral Scientist , Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Gender and Society. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar, she is writing a book about religion and spirituality in hospitals.
Phone: 617-496-6219
Fax: 617-496-1636
wcadge@rwj.harvard.edu
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Joshua Guetzkow recently received his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University. His dissertation focuses on the changing relationship between social welfare and criminal justice policy in the United States over the last 40 years. He is also involved in a research project with Bruce Western on state-level income inequality in the U.S. and its effects on incarceration. He recently published a study in the American Sociological Review, with Michèle Lamont and Grégoire Mallard, on the definition(s) and significance of originality in the social sciences and humanities. More broadly, his research interests include the role of ideas in policymaking, modalities of the governance of social marginality, economic inequality and the sociology of knowledge. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar, he will launch a research project on the intersection of psychological knowledge and the law, with an emphasis on the growing use of the criminal justice system to manage public mental health problems.
Phone: 617-496-6070
Fax: 617-496-1636
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Cynthia Perry received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. Her studies were funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics and health policy, especially in the evaluation of policies affecting the health of disadvantaged populations. Dr. Perry's current work as an RWJ scholar examines whether treating maternal depression improves child health management by analyzing a sample of Medicaid children with pediatric asthma and their mothers. She is also collaborating on a project that will quantify the health benefits of bariatric surgery in a Medicare population.
Phone: 617-496-6085
Fax: 617-496-1636
cdperry@rwj.harvard.edu
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Katherine Carman completed her Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford in 2003. Her primary research interests are in the fields of public economics and health economics. Her dissertation examined the role of social influences on charitable contributions using detailed data from a workplace giving campaign; and the adequacy of life insurance holdings. Her current research examines whether physical education requirements help to prevent childhood obesity. Other current research projects include measuring the financial impact of changes in marital status, and understanding the relationship between student performance, teacher quality, incentives, and teacher certification.
Phone: 617-495-5365
Fax: 617-496-1636
kcarman@rwj.harvard.edu
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Erica Field completed her Ph.D. in Economics in 2003 from Princeton University, and will be joining the Economics Department at Harvard University as an Assistant Professor in the spring of 2005. Her primary fields of interest are labor and development economics and economic demography. Her past research has examined the household welfare effects of urban land titling programs on labor supply, credit access and fertility, and the effect of educational debt burden on career choice. Dr. Field's current research examines the link between, health inequality, individual health investments and economic mobility.
Phone: 617-495-5296
Fax: 617-496-1636
efield@rwj.harvard.edu
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Debra Javeline is an assistant professor of political science at University of Notre Dame. Dr. Javeline studies mass political behavior and attitudes, including the willingness of individuals suffering severe economic hardships to engage in political protest or to litigate. Recent publications include Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages (University of Michigan Press) and "The Role of Blame in Collective Action: Evidence from Russia" (American Political Science Review). Dr. Javeline specializes in survey research methodology. As a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar, she is beginning a new project on the links between social factors and public health. She is especially interested in whether politically active and politically passive individuals experience different health outcomes.
Phone: 617-495-5286
Fax: 617-496-1636
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Julia Lynch is currently on leave from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is an assistant professor in the Political Science department. Her research focuses on the politics of the economy and the welfare state. She is particularly interested in the interaction between political economy and demography. Current research includes an investigation of public perceptions of intergenerational fairness in health policy in the US and Europe; and a project evaluating how demographic changes influence what kinds of social policies labor unions prefer.
Phone: 617-495-5366
Fax: 617-496-1636
jlynch@rwj.harvard.edu
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