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Dr. Jean Grossman is an economist with an expertise in social policy evaluation. She has over two decades of experience conducting evaluations, including 11 random clinical trials, on a variety of social programs—youth programs, employment and training, welfare, dropout prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, and health interventions. She recently served as the first Chief Evaluation Officer for the U.S. Department of Labor (2010-2011) where she oversaw all the Department’s program evaluations (on unemployment insurance, employment and training and worker protection programs). Her current research interests include studying the effects of after-school programs, adult-youth mentoring, and education programs. She is a lecturer at Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She can be reached at jgrossma@princeton.edu or in R517 while at LSE.
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Tony Fahey (Professor of Social Policy, University College Dublin) is a sociologist by training and has research interests in family and demography, poverty and living standards, housing and neighbourhood disadvantage. While in CASE (LSE), he is working on two main projects. One is a first round of analysis of data from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) survey, which is a large-scale longitudinal study of children in Ireland launched in 2007. His particular focus in this study is on the couple relationship in families, looked because both as an object of interest in its own right and because of its significance for the well-being of children. His other activity arises from the GINI project, which is an international FP7-funded study of the social, cultural and political impacts of inequalities in income, wealth and education in EU countries, the US, Japan, Australia and Canada (both the LSE and Prof Fahey’s home university, UCD, are taking part in this project). One strand of the project examines the social impacts of income and educational inequalities, and under this heading Prof Fahey is analysing the impact of income and educational inequalities on family patterns and structures. He can be contacted on tony.fahey@ucd.ie and in in R509 while in CASE.
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Dr. Neeraj Kaushal is Associate Professor of Social Work, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA - the Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany. She is a labor and health economist, and her research focus is on how policies and events affect the well-being of low-income families with special emphasis on immigrants.
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Marcelo Caetano is a senior researcher at IPEA (Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research), and is visiting CASE from 29th September to 28th November 2009. In recent years, Marcelo has been studying how pension systems affect Brazilian sub national fiscal policies, and the effects of pension system on regional inequalities in Brazil. During his period as a CASE visitor, Marcelo’s research seeks to focus on the determinants of internal migration and especially on spillovers arising from regional and social policies. He can be contacted via email at marcelo.caetano@ipea.gov.br.
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Van C. Tran is currently a doctoral candidate in the Joint Ph.D. Program in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University (http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/gs/Tran_Van/). His research seeks to understand the incorporation of immigrants and their children in the U.S. (with a particular focus on Hispanics/Latinos), as well as its implication for intergroup relations, urban poverty and social inequality research. Van will be visiting LSE-CASE from June 8 till July 19, 2008. While here, Van’s research focuses on how ethnicity and social class shape parenting practices among young adults in contemporary United Kingdom. Specifically, the project seeks to investigate how parenting practices vary: (1) across ethnic groups in contemporary United Kingdom; (2) across social classes within the same ethnic group; and (3) across immigrant generations within the same ethnic group, drawing upon three waves of data from the Millennium Cohort Study. In addition, the project investigates how these cultural differences in parenting might affect the developmental trajectory and health outcomes of children from birth to five years of age. Van would very much appreciate the opportunity to meet with LSE faculty, staff and students and can be reached via email at vantran@fas.harvard.edu.
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Christopher A. Bail is a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research on immigration policy and xenophobia has appeared in the American Sociological Review and the Revue Europeene des Migrations Internationales. While visiting LSE, he will be conducting fieldwork for his dissertation, which compares the consequences of counter-terrorism policy in the U.S. and U.K. for the social exclusion of Muslim communities. Bail was previously a German Marshall Fund Fellow at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques and the receipient of the 2007 Aage B. Sorenson Award. Before beginning his PhD, Bail worked at the United Nations Development Programme in Geneva and received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Bowdoin College.
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Michaela Willert is based at the FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften at the Freie Universität Berlin, and is visiting CASE from 8th January to 29th February 2008. She is working on an Anglo-German Foundation funded project called "Combining social inclusion with financial sustainability?
The reconstruction of British and German pension regimes". In particular, she wants to investigate the development of the British private pension market and its political framework.
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Vincent Vandenberghe was trained as an applied economist and has accumulated research experience in Europe as well as in the US. He is now full-time, tenure-track, professor at the Economics department of the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Over the years, he has acquired a solid background in applying economic analysis and reasoning to educational issues (international comparison of effectiveness and equity, rate of return estimates, formula funding, centraliazation vs. decentralization, education wages and employment, teacher turnover...).
Current research interests include tertiary education finance in the EU context (student loans, transferable vouchers, liquidity constraints...) as well as the effects of an ageing workforce on firms' productivity. He is visiting until 30th April 2007 and is at desk 25D. He can be contacted by email
v.m.vandenberghe@lse.ac.uk or phone on 020 7955 7613.
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