Christopher Wimer
Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy
Biographical Note
Chris Wimer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 with a B.A. in Sociology and English. His qualifying paper tested competing theories regarding differences in childrearing by social class. His dissertation focuses on neighborhood influences on parenting behaviors, and how such influences depend on characteristics of parents' employment.
In addition, Chris has published work on inverse-proability-of-treatment weighting (a technique for helping estimate causal effects with longitudinal data), the relationship between marriage and crime, and contextual determinants of youth's out-of-school time participation. He has also written numerous pieces connecting research to policy and practice through his roles working with the Harvard Family Research Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and New Vision, a domestic policy think tank that seeks to engage the next generation of scholars in developing the policy proposals and broader visions that will be needed to create widespread opportunity and security in the next century.
11/17/2006
- Research Interests
- Stratification, Childhood/Family, Neighborhoods, Education and Youth Development, Crime
- Previous Degrees
- BA Soc & Eng 1999, U. of Penn.
Contact
617-496-5794 (FAX)