Research Staff
Biography
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.
Biography
Lena Song is an assistant professor of economics at UIUC. She studies media and information technologies, with a focus on their relationship to diversity and inequality. Much of her work involves original data collection including archival research or randomized experiments. She is an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University, and an affiliate of SSRC Digital Platforms Initiative, NYU Center for Social Media and Politics, and Poverty Action Lab.
Biography
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.