Jared Schachner

Research Scientist

I am currently a Research Scientist at the USC Price School of Public Policy and an affiliated researcher with the UChicago Consortium on School Research and the Los Angeles Education Research Institute.

Before  USC, I completed a postdoc at UChicago and a Ph.D. in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard, where I was also a doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy and a Meyer Fellow in the Joint Center for Housing Studies.

My research examines whether and how neighborhood, school, and housing conditions mediate the intergenerational transmission of skills, health, and status. I draw on literature from urban sociology, inequality/stratification, sociology of education, and social policy, and use my hometown of L.A. as a theoretically strategic case. 

This research has been published or is forthcoming in Annual Review of Sociology, Demography, Social Forces, Child Development, Journal of Health & Social Behavior, American Educational Research Journal, Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, Housing Policy Debate, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, JAMA Network Open, Environment International, The Gerontologist, and RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 

As a Principal Investigator, I have secured over $500,000 of external funding from sources that include the National Science Foundation, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Conrad R. Hilton Foundation, Weingart Foundation, the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and the Joint Center for Housing Studies.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I attended Harvard’s Kennedy School, worked at the New York City Department of Education, consulted several national nonprofits, including the United Negro College Fund and National Audubon Society on their social impact strategies, and received a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics & Economics and Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude).