![Robert Bifulco](/images/default-source/people-listings/robert-bifulco.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=a9708e11_6)
Robert Bifulco
Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
![Kalena Cortes](/images/default-source/people-listings/cortes-kalena.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=266172fc_1)
Kalena Cortes
Senior Research Associate
Verlin and Howard Kruse ’52 Founders Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Areas of Expertise
Economics of education, improving academic performance of urban students, increasing access to postsecondary education, raising educational attainment of immigrant students
![Deborah Freund](/images/default-source/people-listings/freund-deborah.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=d66b2325_1)
Deborah Freund
Senior Research Associate
University Professor, Claremont Graduate University
PhD, The University of Michigan
Areas of Expertise
Value-based reimbursement, medicaid managed care, health disparities
![Leonard Lopoo headshot](/images/default-source/people-listings/leonard-lopoo-headshot-2023-resized.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=f6e16bc4_1)
Leonard M. Lopoo
Associate Dean, Chair and Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department
Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics
Director, Maxwell X Lab
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Research Affiliate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health
Areas of Expertise
![Amy Lutz](/images/default-source/people-listings/amy-lutz.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=f28c71cf_8)
Amy Lutz
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Chair, Social Science Ph.D. Program
Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise
![Ross Rubenstein](/images/default-source/people-listings/rubenstein-ross.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=68e28d20_1)
Ross Rubenstein
Senior Research Associate
Professor and Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational and Community Policy, Georgia State University
Ph.D., New York University, 1997
Areas of Expertise
K-12 rducation policy and finance, college scholarship programs, state and local public finance
![John Ruggiero](/images/default-source/people-listings/ruggiero-john.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=740e4dbb_1)
John Ruggiero
Senior Research Associate
Edmund B. O'Leary Professor of Economics, University of Dayton
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1995
Areas of Expertise
Public finance, urban and regional economics, local public finance
![Timothy Smeeding](/images/default-source/people-listings/smeeding-timothy.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=27221c1a_1)
Timothy Smeeding
Senior Research Associate
Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1975
Areas of Expertise
Social and economic mobility across generations, inequality of income, consumption and wealth, poverty in national and cross-national contexts
![Vincent Tinto](/images/default-source/people-listings/tinto-vincent.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=f56ac0ca_1)
Vincent Tinto
Senior Research Associate
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Education
Ph.D., The University of Chicago
Areas of Expertise
Student success and the impact of learning communities on student growth and attainment
![Michael J. Wasylenko](/images/default-source/people-listings/michael-j--wasylenko.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=ef93b653_6)
Michael J. Wasylenko
Professor Emeritus, Economics Department
Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics
Senior Research Associate
Areas of Expertise
![Jeffery Weinstein](/images/default-source/people-listings/weinstein-jeffery.tmb-people325.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=e9f831e2_1)
Jeffery Weinstein
Senior Research Associate
Senior Financial Economist, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation