FEI TAN
Education: Ph.D. student, Human Developmental Economics, Tufts University, 2024
M.S., Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania, 2018
B.A. (Double Degree), Economics, Peking University;
B.A., English Literature, Beijing Language and Culture University, 2016
Expertise: early childhood development, quantitative modeling, policy analysis
Research Interest: Fei Tan is a doctoral student in the joint Human Developmental Economics program. Her research interests lie in studying the contextual factors in home and neighborhood settings as well as social policy, and how they impact young children’s cognitive and socio-emotional abilities. Fei hopes to engage in research that will ensure the developmental opportunities for low-income children. In the C3 lab, Fei works on projects including the STEM Pathways of Mexican-Origin Children to understand the impacts of neighborhood resources, and the evaluation of the Housing and Children’s Health Development project.
Grace (Sae Hyun Oh)
Education: Ph.D. student, Human Developmental Economics, Tufts University, 2023
M.S., Economics, Tufts University, 2017
B.A., Economics, Accounting minor, University of California, San Diego, 2014
Expertise: Labor/education economics, adolescent development, quantitative modeling
Research interests: I am a Ph.D. student in a joint program in Economics and Human Development. The program combines theories of human development and the methods of economics to look at how early life experiences affect a person’s later economic outcomes. I am interested in how growing up in diverse neighborhoods is associated with youth’s thought processes that have consequences for later economic and employment outcomes. Specifically, I focus on using econometric tools to identify causal inferences between neighborhood factors and adolescents’ developmental trajectories.
R. Julius Anastasio
Education: Ph.D. Student, Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, Anticipated 2020
M.S., Applied Educational Psychology, Northeastern University, 2009
B.S., Human Development, Cornell University, 2007
Expertise: early child development, residential mobility, mixed method research, applied missing data analysis
Research interests: My research focuses on how the dynamic relations between children’s neighborhood and family contexts can advance residentially mobile, low-income children’s health and well-being, particularly through existing access points such as community institutions and the school system. I am interested in the policy implications for how neighborhood contexts and housing conditions impact children’s development both directly and indirectly through families, and the extent to which they support or hinder effective parenting.
Natalya Zaika
Education
- Ph.D., Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University
- M.A., Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, 2016
- B.A., Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, 2011
Expertise and research focus
- immigrant children & children of Mexican heritage
- STEM learning across middle childhood through adolescence
- immigrant enclaves; community social processes; neighborhood institutional resources
- applied data analyses
Research interests: As an interdisciplinary researcher, I aim to work across disciplines to understand children’s complex and dynamic learning environments, and the resources they need to succeed. I use various statistical techniques to examine the contribution of community processes and institutions to the academic achievement and STEM pursuits of children of Mexican heritage and children from immigrant families. In particular, I aim to address disparities in resource distribution and access through policy-relevant research that identifies social and institutional resources that are promising levers for equitable learning environments.
Danielle DeMaio
Education: M.A. Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, Anticipated 2021
B.A. Psychology, Biology Minor, Purchase College (SUNY), 2015
Research Interests: I am a second year master’s student at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development. I am interested in how contextual factors (e.g. neighborhoods) can impact individual and family well-being. At the C3 Lab I have primarily been working on projects that relate to the Housing and Children’s Healthy Development (HCHD) study. My master’s thesis is focusing on the mental health of sexual minority individuals who grew up in communities with high crime and poverty rates.
Mindy Rosengarten
Education: M.A., Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, Anticipated 2020
B.A. Psychological and Brain Sciences, Spanish and English Literature Minors, Washington University in St. Louis, 2018
Research Interests: Role of community contexts on parenting practices; Community-based programs utilizing a two-generation approach to family functioning; Effects of social policies on low-income families; The effects of residential instability on child development; Neighborhood-level social support systems