Social and Economic Inequality

Dr. Lewin is an Associate Professor in Family Science, in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland in 2014, she was on the faculty of Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. Lewin has worked for the last 17 years to develop and rigorously evaluate primary care and school-based interventions for teen parents and their children.

Kenneth Leonard is a development economist specializing in health care delivery and human capital in rural Africa. His work investigates how institutions, NGOs, and social networks affect access to vital services, using fieldwork and original data collection across multiple African countries.

Dr. Kleykamp is a demographer whose research focuses on the role of military service and veteran's status on labor market outcomes. After receiving her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in 2007, she taught at the University of Kansas and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Dr. Kleykamp also worked as a researcher with the RAND Corporation from 2003 to 2004.

Recent Accomplishments
Member, National Initiative Management Team, Financial Security in Later Life, United States Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Research Education and Extension Service.
Leader, Maryland Saves Coalition
Director of Research, National Institute for Personal Finance Employee Education, Virginia Tech.
Co-editior, Personal Finances and Worker Productivity, Virginia Tech.
Conducted and published research in the area of workplace financial education and financial well-being.

Dr. Kim's research focuses on social network analysis, network sampling methods (particularly respondent-driven sampling), and population size estimation. 

Dr. Hardaway’s program of research centers on understanding how socioeconomic status influences child development and family processes. Her work examines links between poverty-related risks (e.g., exposure to community violence and material hardship) and adolescents’ socioemotional adjustment and academic achievement. Dr. Hardaway’s research also focuses on understanding SES as a source of within-group variability among African Americans. She uses intersectionality as a conceptual tool to help illuminate how racism and economic disadvantage affect African Americans across classes.

Professor Hellerstein received her PhD from Harvard University in 1994 and joined the Maryland faculty in 1996. She is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The focus of much of her research is labor market outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity.

Publications include:

Over the past seven years, Haltiwanger has been actively engaged in development of new longitudinal matched employer-employee databases at the Census Bureau. As part of the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) program, he has linked household and business level datasets at the micro level. The core of the methodological approach is to use administrative data for the universe of businesses and households as a crosswalk between Census household and business level data.

As a prevention scientist, Dr. Green’s work has concentrated on improving the health and well-being of disadvantaged populations.  Specifically, her research has focused on identifying the causes of negative outcomes over the life course among urban African Americans.  Dr. Green’s work is concentrated in two areas: (1) long-term consequences of substance use and (2) the interrelationship of substance use, violence, and mental health over the life course.