Kimberlee Shauman received her degree in Sociology, Population
Demography and Ecology from the University of Michigan in 1997.
Her areas of expertise include social stratification, family and
kinship, demography, sociology of education, and quantitative
methodology.
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Monica Singhal is an Associate Professor in the Economics
department at UC Davis. She is also a Research Associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research and a Faculty Affiliate of
the International Growth Centre. She received her PhD from
Harvard University. Her research focuses on public finance, with
a particular emphasis on taxation and redistribution and public
finance in developing economies.
Professor Stearns is an Associate Professor of Economics at UC
Davis. My current research looks at the effects of
family-friendly policies on labor market choices, productivity,
family structure, and health outcomes. I am particularly
interested in how these policies can be used to reduce gender and
socioeconomic inequality in the workplace and at home.
Dr. Valle is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at
the University of
California, Davis. She is a scholar of migration, race and
ethnicity, and political sociology focusing on the experiences of
Latina/os in the United States.
Professor Ventry is a graduate of UC Los Angeles (B.A., History),
UC Santa Barbara (Ph.D., Economic and Legal History), and New
York University School of Law (J.D.). He is the author of dozens
of articles, book chapters, and an edited volume. His research
interests include tax policy, tax theory and history, family
taxation, legal ethics and professional standards, tax
administration and compliance, distributive justice, and public
finance.
M. Anne Visser is a Professor of Community and Regional
Development in the Department of Human Ecology at the University
of California, Davis. Her research interests include the
socioeconomic implications of the informalization of work and
employment, low-wage and informal labor markets, and the impact
of state policy and socially-based labor market interventions on
economic opportunity.
Dr. Dulce Westberg is an Assistant Professor of Psychology
at the University of California, Davis. Her research examines how
individuals from racially and ethnically minoritized groups
navigate social structures, and how these structures shape
personality and identity development. Drawing on both qualitative
and quantitative methods, she explores life narratives related to
race, ethnicity, gender, and social class to understand their
links to psychosocial adjustment.
