Department of Sociology

Andrew Halpern-Manners is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, along with an MPP in policy analysis. His current projects involve two broad streams of research: one examining the stratifying effects of education, both intra- and intergenerationally, and another investigating the prevalence and consequences of panel conditioning (or “time-in-survey” effects) in longitudinal social science surveys. Specific topics of interest include the causal effects of education on health and longevity; the transmission of educational effects within kinship groups; and methods for identifying panel conditioning in survey research. His recently published work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Social Forces, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.