Emily Hannum is a professor of sociology and education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are poverty and child welfare, gender and ethnic stratification, and sociology of education. Current projects focus on childhood poverty in China, the impact of large-scale school consolidations on educational attainment in China, and family separation and children’s education in China and in comparative perspective.  Data collection projects include a longitudinal study of rural poverty and upward mobility in northwest China and a study of environment and health at the beginning of life in southeast China.   Recent publications include “Education in East Asian Societies: Postwar Expansion and the Evolution of Inequality” (2019, Annual Review of Sociology, with Hiroshi Ishida, Hyunjoon Park, and Tony Tam) and “Differences at the Extremes? Gender, National Contexts, and Math Performance in Latin America.” (2019, American Educational Research Journal, with Ran Liu and Andrea Alvarado-Urbina). 

Norma B. Coe is a Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an economist whose research focuses on identifying causal effects of policies that directly and indirectly impact health, human behavior, health care access, and health care utilization. Norma is the Director of the Policy and Economics of Disability, Aging, and Long Term Care (PEDAL) lab and Co-Director of the Population Aging Research Center (PARC). In her research, Dr. Coe merges the rigor of economic thinking and empirical analysis with the practical health services skills of measurement and knowledge of the health policy context to answer pressing questions for policymakers and other stakeholders on how we can improve aging in America.

Hans-Peter Kohler is a social and economic demographer whose research focuses on health and health-related behaviors in both developing and developed countries. Dr. Kohler's work is characterized by an integrative approach that combines demographic, economic, sociological, and biological perspectives to develop empirical and theoretical models of health and demographic behaviors. Dr. Kohler's prior research has explored diverse topics, including the role of social and sexual networks in shaping HIV risk perceptions and infection risks, the causal effects of education on health outcomes, and the behavioral consequences of learning one's HIV status. Additionally, their work examines the interplay between marriage and sexual relationships in developing countries, the influence of social interaction processes on fertility and AIDS-related behaviors, and the determinants and implications of low fertility in developed nations.