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Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 235-240

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From page 235...
... She is a former vice president and deputy director of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and was an American Statistical Association/ National Science Foundation research fellow at the Bureau of the Census.
From page 236...
... Before joining the university, she was associate professor of the Department of Sociology and the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, an assistant professor of the Department of Sociology and the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University, and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her research interests include qualitative methods, social policy, gender, race, family studies, and urban sociology.
From page 237...
... His research involves applied public finance and public policy analysis with special emphasis on education issues. He has also investigated the determination of individual incomes and wages, retirement income security, housing policy, social experimentation, statistical methodology, and the economics of discrimination.
From page 238...
... In addition, she is co-project director of the Head Start Violence Prevention Project at the university, and a co-principal investigator on the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development and the Johns Hopkins University study on the ecology of African American children's development. Her research interests include the normative development of African American infants, toddlers, and preschoolers and culturally responsive evaluation of community-based programs for African American families and other families of color.
From page 239...
... Previously, S chink held positions as chief of California's $325 million Job Training Partnership Act program and chief economist for California's Employment Development Department. S chink is a member and past president of the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics, an organization comprised of researchers and statisticians from state and local social services agencies.


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