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Research Interests:
Child well-being, health and inequality, life course, demography, social stratification
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Introduction:
Margot Jackson comes to Brown following a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University and graduate training at UCLA. She is a sociologist and demographer who studies the social production and consequences of children’s well-being, and health in particular. A fundamental question motivates her research: how does the relationship between social status and health evolve over the life course and across generations? Her S4-related work focuses on the dynamic nature of childhood in the context of “neighborhood effects.” Using longitudinal, geocoded data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey and the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, she has considered the neighborhood-level determinants of children’s long-term exposure to poor neighborhoods, as well as the appropriate temporal definition of children’s neighborhoods in studies of neighborhood effects. She is currently extending this work to understand how different types of changes in children’s neighborhoods and families may influence their well-being.
Studying children’s neighborhoods longitudinally led her to pursue another line of work, aimed at better understanding the long-term educational and socioeconomic consequences of poor health during childhood, and the contribution of early-life health to intergenerational inequalities. Finally, in new research she is extending her interests to the children of immigrants in both the U.S. and the U.K., with a focus on their health trajectories and how those trajectories vary across settings and evolve with contextual factors over time.
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