Research Staff

Biography:

Ziyao Tian is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Department of Sociology, and the Asian American Initiative. She holds a PhD in Sociology and previously worked at Pew Research Center. She works with Professor Xi Song to examine mobility and stratification processes among Asian Americans in the labor market using linked employer-employee administrative data. Her research focuses on how social, organizational, and technological contexts shape economic mobility and racial inequality.

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Matt Mendoza is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). He studies organizational processes resulting in income inequality between people in different class, gender, and ethnoracial groups, with a focus on the US. His work applies quantitative methods to linked employer-employee data on workers and their workplace contexts. At ISERP, he works with Prof. Yinon Cohen developing methods to distribute US manufacturing sector income to different economic and demographic groups from Census Bureau microdata, part of Prof. Tali Kristal’s (University of Haifa) Distributional Workplace Accounts project.

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Jiang Mao is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Cognitive and Behavioral Economics Initiative (CBEI) with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). She works with Professor Michael Woodford on the cognitive processes underlying economic decision making. Coming from a psychology and neuroscience background with a focus on perceptual decision making, she now combines human behavior experiments and Bayesian inference models to study how noisy representations of the decision situation lead to systematic biases in economic behaviors.

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Greer Mellon is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University in the Population Studies and Training Center, and she is also affiliated with the Annenberg Institute. She is a sociologist who researches educational and labor market inequalities in the United States. She is particularly interested in how leadership and organizational policies can be leveraged to reduce social inequalities. She is primarily a quantitative scholar, and conducts research with large-scale administrative data and survey experiments. Her work has been published in Sociology of Education. She has received support for her research from the NaEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship and the Russell Sage Foundation. 

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Jori Korpershoek is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). He holds a PhD in economics and works on econometric methods and applied topics in political economy, including political campaigns, the effects of the media and the different roles of elections. He now works with Professor Andrew Gelman on causal inference using panel data. They focus on incorporating multiple sources of information and insights from (economic) theory in order to improve the stability and generalizability of empirical estimates in the social sciences.