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 Research Associate, The Urban Institute
Randy Albelda
Professor, Economics Department and Public Policy Ph.D. Program, University of Massachusetts Boston
Scott Allard
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University
Bruce Bradbury
Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Evelyn Z. Brodkin
Associate Professor, University of Chicago, School of Social
Service Administration
Mike Brewer
Program Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
John H. Cawley
Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Marcia J. Carlson
Associate Professor of Social Work and Sociology, Columbia University
Michael Chernew
Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard University
Rebekah Levine Coley
Associate Professor, Applied Developmental &
Educational Psychology, Boston College
Rachel Dunifon
Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Marilyn Edelhoch
Director, Research and Evaluation, South Carolina Department of Social Services
Robert W. Fairlie
Director of Masters Program in Applied Economics and Finance, Department of Economics, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Steven Garasky
Associate Professor of Family Policy, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University
Lisa A. Gennetian
Senior Research Associate, MDRC
Christina M. Gibson-Davis
Assistant Professor, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
Craig Gundersen
Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies and Cooperating Member, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
Colleen M. Heflin
Assistant Professor, 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
United States Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
John Iceland
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
Markus Jantti
Professor of Economics, Åbo Akademi University
Rukmalie Jayakody
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, and Demography; Research Associate, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University
Rucker Johnson
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Dean Jolliffe
Research Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA
Ariel Kalil
Director, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Associate Professor, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
Jeffrey Kling
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
Phillip Levine
Class of 1919 Professor, Wellesley College
Daniel Lichter
Ferris Family Professor, Departments of Policy Analysis and Management
and Sociology, and Director, Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, Cornell University
Rebecca London
Director of Research and Evaluation, The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University
Brian P. McCall
Professor of Education and Professor of Economics,
Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan
Leonard Michael Lopoo
Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Darren Lubotsky
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jens Otto Ludwig
Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public
Policy, University of Chicago
Katherine Magnuson
Assistant Professor of Social Work, Universityof Wisconsin
Yolanda C. Padilla
Professor of Social Work and Women's Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Karen F. Parker
Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware
Robert D. Plotnick
Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington
Steve Raphael
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Romich
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Kevin Roy
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Science, University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health
Lucie Schmidt
Assistant Professor, Williams College Department of Economics
Sanford Schram
Visiting Professor of Social Work and Social Research, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard
Associate Professor, Williams College Department of Economics
Sandra Susan Smith
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Michael A. Stoll
Associate Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles
James X. Sullivan
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Robert Wagmiller, Jr.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Robert Walker
Professor of Social Policy and Fellow of Green College, Oxford University
Parke Wilde
Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Anne Winkler
Professor of Economics and Public Policy Administration, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Michael Wiseman
Research Professor of Public Policy, Public Administration, and Economics, George Washington University
W. Jean Yeung
Research Professor, New York University, Department of Sociology, Center for Advanced Social Science Research