Durlauf's research spans many topics in economics. His most important substantive contributions involve the areas of poverty, inequality and economic growth.
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Professor Yamaguchi is interested in statistical models for social data and mathematical models for social phenomena, life course, rational choice theory, stratification and mobility, demography of family and employment, process of drug use progression, and Japanese society. His current research focuses on methodology (causal models for categorical data, decomposition analysis, and panel data analysis), and gender inequality and work-life balance in Japan and Korea.
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Professor Stolzenberg is a demographer whose research career has focused on the development and empirical testing of social stratification theory, at aggregate and individual levels of analysis. Read more about his work here.
Professor Raudenbush is interested in statistical models for child and youth development within social settings such as classrooms, schools, and neighborhoods.
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Professor Hong focuses on developing causal inference theories and methods for evaluating educational and social policies and programs in multi-level, longitudinal settings. Her work addresses issues including (1) how to conceptualize and evaluate the causal effects of treatments when individual responses to alternative treatments depend on various features of the organizational settings, (2) how to adjust for selection bias in estimating the effects of concurrent multi-valued treatments, (3) how to evaluate the cumulative effects of time-varying treatments, and (4) how to conceptualize and analyze the causal mediation mechanisms.
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Professor Heckman, a 2000 recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, has research interests in inequality, social mobility and economic opportunity; labor economics; lifecycle dynamics of skill formation; developmental origins of health; microeconometrics; abductive inference; and causal models rooted in economic theory.
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Professor Evans' research focuses on the collective system of thinking and knowing, ranging from the distribution of attention and intuition, the origin of ideas and shared habits of reasoning to processes of agreement (and dispute), accumulation of certainty (and doubt), and the texture—novelty, ambiguity, topology—of understanding. He is especially interested in innovation—how new ideas and practices emerge—and the role that social and technical institutions (e.g., the Internet, markets, collaborations) play in collective cognition and discovery.
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Professor Brehm is a specialist in the study of American political behavior, with an emphasis on public opinion and political organizations. Read more about him here.
Professor Anselin is the developer of the SpaceStat and GeoDa software packages for spatial data analysis. His publications include many hundreds of articles and several edited books in the fields of quantitative geography, regional science, geographic information science, econometrics, economics, and computer science.
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