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Population Studies Center (PSC)

Emily Treleaven

Dr. Treleaven is a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Research. As a demographer and social epidemiologist, she studies health and mortality in early childhood. Specifically, she studies the mechanisms through which family and community context shape health outcomes in early childhood, and how health system characteristics affect children’s health and healthcare utilization. ...

William Axinn

Dr. Axinn is a Professor of survey research, population studies, sociology, and public policy at the University of Michigan. Axinn is a social demographer studying community, intergenerational, and social psychological influences on marriage, childbearing, reproductive health, mental health, and the natural environment. He is the former director of Michigan’s Survey Research Center, which has an ...

J.J. Prescott

Broadly, I study legal decision making, including decisions related to crime and employment. I typically use large social science data bases, but also collect my own data using technology or surveys.

J. Trent Alexander

J. Trent Alexander is the Associate Director and a Research Professor at ICPSR in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Alexander is a historical demographer and builds social science data infrastructure. He is currently leading the Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage Project (joint with Raj Chetty and Katie Genadek) and ResearchDataGov ...

Amanda Kowalski

Professor Kowalski’s recent research analyzes experiments and clinical trials with the goal of designing policies to target insurance expansions and medical treatments to individuals who stand to benefit from them the most. Her research has also explored the impact of previous Medicaid expansions, the Affordable Care Act, the Massachusetts health reform of 2006, and employer-sponsored ...

Robert Manduca

Professor Manduca’s research focuses on urban and regional economic development, asking why some cities and regions prosper while others decline, how federal policy influences urban fortunes, and how neighborhood social and economic conditions shape life outcomes. He studies these topics using computer simulations, spatial clustering methods, network analysis, and data visualization. In other work he ...

Jeffrey Morenoff

Jeffrey D. Morenoff is a professor of sociology, a research professor at the Institute for Social Research (ISR), and a professor of public policy at the Ford School. He is also director of the ISR Population Studies Center. Professor Morenoff’s research interests include neighborhood environments, inequality, crime and criminal justice, the social determinants of health, ...

Colter Mitchell

Dr. Mitchell’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of family formation behavior. He examines how social context such as neighborhood resources and values influence family processes and how those processes interplay with an individual’s genetic and epigenetic makeup to influence behavior, wellbeing, and health. His research also includes the development of new methods for ...

Elizabeth Bruch

I am a computational social scientist and sociologist. In addition to my appointments at Michigan, I am an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute and serve on their Science Steering Committee; I also serve on the advisory board for the Social Science Research Council’s Social Data Initiative. The vast amounts of activity data ...

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J. Trent Alexander

Research Professor, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research

Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

George Alter

Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

Research Professor, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research; Professor Emeritus of History, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

William Axinn

Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Elizabeth Bruch

Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Associate Professor of Complex Systems, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Arts and Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

Amanda Kowalski

Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy; Research Professor, Population Studies Center and Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Robert Manduca

Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Colter Mitchell

Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Jeffrey Morenoff

Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy

Brian Perron

Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work

Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research