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Rosemary Avery
E-mail rja7@cornell.edu 119A MVR Hall
Research interests: family policy: New York State child welfare system, foster care experiences of children relinquished for adoption, state adoption recruitment efforts, and permanency for adolescents exiting foster care; consumer policy: messages and persuasive content of print advertising and prime-time television
Richard Burkhauser
E-mail rbv1@cornell.edu 125 MVR Hall
Research interests: how public policies affect the economic behavior and well-being of vulnerable populations, e.g., people with disabilities, older persons, low income households
John Cawley
E-mail jhc38@cornell.edu 124 MVR Hall
Research interests: effect of body weight on labor market outcomes such as wage rates, unemployment, employment disability, and the transition from welfare to work; role of body weight in adolescent behavior, such as smoking and sexual activity; treatments for and methods of preventing obesity
Rachel Dunifon
E-mail red26@cornell.edu 248 MVR Hall
Research interests: impact of state welfare policies on children and their family structures; the ways in which children's characteristics affect maternal employment; and the influence of neighborhood characteristics on parenting behaviors and youth development
R. Rick Geddes
E-mail rrg24@cornell.edu 251 MVR Hall
Research interests: private investment in transportation infrastructure, corporate governance, postal economics, and the economics of women's rights
Jenny Gerner
E-mail jlg19@cornell.edu 295 MVR Hall
Research interests: effects of policy concerning early childhood education, such as age at which children can enroll in kindergarten or the provision of universal pre-kindergarten education, on outcomes in school, such as test scores and school performance. I am considering how living arrangements in college affect education outcomes. This project specifically uses Cornell data to contrast living in 'living/learning' residence halls with other types of living arrangements.
Donald Kenkel
E-mail dsk10@cornell.edu 102 MVR Hall
Research interests: economics of consumer health behavior, including both medical care purchases and health promotion and disease prevention choices made outside of the medical care sector; impact of higher taxes on youth and adult smoking cessation; cost benefit analysis of public policies
John Kuder
E-mail jmk15@cornell.edu 135 MVR Hall
Research interests: effectiveness of Medicaid managed care, and the effects of the new health care system on physician's clinical decisions, continuity of care, and a conceptual framework for examining the "market" for quality in health services
Daniel Lichter
E-mail dtl28@cornell.edu 249 MVR Hall, 202C Beebe Hall
Research interests: welfare policy and poverty; cohabitation and marriage, including racial and ethnic intermarriage; demography of rural America; and immigration into new Hispanic destinations
Claudio Lucarelli
E-mail cl443@cornell.edu 105 MVR Hall
Research interests: industrial organization of health care markets; impact and implementation of Medicare Part D; issues on rural medicine through the Critical Access Hospital program
Alan Mathios
E-mail adm5@cornell.edu 142 MVR Hall
Research interests: effect of Food and Drug Administration regulatory policies on consumer and firm behavior; government tax policy and its impact on smoking onset and cessation
Jordan Matsudaira
E-mail jdm296@cornell.edu 133 MVR Hall
Research interests: the effects of education, health, and welfare policies on the behavior and well-being of vulnerable populations. His current resarch ranges from investigating the impact of bilingual education programs on the educational and economic outcomes of the children of immigrants to a study of whether and how schools strategically respond to incentives in federal subsidy programs to secure increased funding. In other efforts, he is examining the effects of increased staffing levels on patient outcomes in nursing homes, and the extent of monopsony power inthe labor market for nurses
Kelly Musick
E-mail kam386@cornell.edu 254 MVR Hall
Research interests: changes in marriage, cohabitation,
and childbearing and their implications for adults, children, and - more
broadly - processes of social stratification
Sean Nicholson
E-mail sn243@cornell.edu 123 MVRHall
Research interests: innovation in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry; determinants of whether and how quickly physicians adopt new technologies and treatment methods; and measuring the benefits to employers of investing in their workers' health
Emily Owens
E-mail ego5@cornell.edu 106 MVR Hall
Research interests: governemnt regulation of criminal activity, including how government policies affect the prevalence of criminal activity and the structure of criminal justice system
Andrea Parrot
E-mail ap30@cornell.edu 253 MVR Hall
Research interests: women's health, human sexuality, violence against women, and medical ethics; and the cultural and policy issues related to those areas
H. Elizabeth Peters
E-mail ep22@cornell.edu 117 MVR Hall
Research interests: effects of public policies such as divorce laws, taxes, and welfare reform on family formation and dissolution decisions, inter- and intra-household transfers, and family investments in children
Sharon Sassler
E-mail ss589@cornell.edu 134 MVR Hall
Research interests: factors shaping the activities of young adults and their life course transitions into school and work, relationships, and parenthood; how these transitions vary by gender, race/ethnicity, and class; cohabitation; gender differences in immigrant adaptation
Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
E-mail kis6@cornell.edu 137 MVR Hall
Research interests: economic effects of state regulation of private insurance markets on health insurance related to employment, and the impact of social policies and the economic climate on availability of different types of health insurance for the broader population
Sharon Tennyson
E-mail st96@cornell.edu 252 MVR Hall
Research interests: economic and policy issues in insurance; analysis of government regulation of insurance, insurance fraud, consumer knowledge of and attitudes toward insurance, and consumers' insurance purchase decisions
William Trochim
E-mail wmt1@cornell.edu Mann Library
Research interests: public health, gerontology and aging, mental health, education; community-based concept mapping for planning & evaluation, systems thinking in public health, integration of research and practice, methods for evaluating large research initiatives, systems thinking in evaluation, and STEM evaluation.
Maureen Waller
E-mail mrw37@cornell.edu 257 MVR Hall
Research interests: fatherhood, marriage and family formation in low-income communities (e.g., interpretations of paternal responsibility, fathers as caregivers of young children, the implications of fathers' incarceration for family relationships, tensions in the relationships between low-income parents, the link between couples' pregnancy intentions and behavior, unmarried couples' expectations for marriage and their fear of divorce); the effectiveness of social policies in low-income communities (e.g., child support, paternity establishment, welfare, incarceration)
William White
E-mail wdw8@cornell.edu 117 MVR Hall
Research interests: growth and impact of managed care in hospital and physician markets, the design of healthcare reimbursement systems, healthcare antitrust, and issues of federalism in health care reform
