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Radha Jagannathan, Ph.D.
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Contact Information
Civic Square Building, room 354
Phone (732) 932-4101 x668
Fax (732) 932-2253
E-mail radha@rci.rutgers.edu
Research Interests
- Poverty, public welfare, and child welfare
- School-to-work transition
- Evaluation of social programs
Undergraduate Courses
- Demography (graduate/undergraduate)
- Research Practicum
- Computers in Health Research
- Basic Statistics
Graduate Courses
- Methods of Planning Analysis I
- Program Evaluation
- Discrete Choice Methods
Selected Publications
- R. Jagannathan. (2006). “Economic Crisis and Women’s Childbearing Motivations: The Induced Abortion Response of Women on Public Assistance.” Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 6:52-65.
- R. Jagannathan, Camasso, M. J. and McLanahan, S. (2005). “Welfare Reform and the Formation of No-parent Families: Pinpointing Affected Child Populations.” Social Science Quarterly 86:1080-1103.
- Jagannathan, R., M. J. Camasso, and M. Killingsworth. (2004). “Do Family Caps on Welfare Affect Births Among Welfare Recipients? Reconciling Efficacy and Effectiveness Estimates of Impact Through a Blended Design Strategy.” American Journal of Evaluation 25:295-319.
- Jagannathan, R., M.J. Camasso and M. Killingsworth. (2004) “New Jersey's Family Cap Experiment: Do Fertility Impacts Differ by Racial Density?” Journal of Labor Economics 22:(2): 315-346 .
- Jagannathan, R. and M.J. Camasso. (2003) “The Racial and Contextual Conditioning of Welfare Reform on Non-marital Fertility: The Impact of New Jersey's Family Cap Experiment.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 65:52-71.
Profile
Radha Jagannathan is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning & Policy Development in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey . Professor Jagannathan received a Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, in 1999. She has been a Visiting Research Collaborator at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University and was a Visiting Fellow this past year at the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Well-Being at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Professor Jagannathan’s forthcoming book When to Protect: Decision making in Child Welfare for Oxford University Press (with Professor Michael Camasso) attempts to meld decision making approaches from economics, criminology, and social psychology, with an eye toward the formulation of a unified decision making framework that can help child welfare professionals. Professor Jagannathan’s recent work has appeared in the Journal of Labor Economics, Research in Labor Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, American Journal of Public Health, Evaluation and Program Planning, American Journal of Evaluation, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Social Science Quarterly, Children and Youth Services Review, and Child Abuse and Neglect, and many other journals. She has also conducted evaluations of human services programs for many state and federal agencies and for private companies such as Johnson & Johnson. Her teaching interests include courses in statistics, econometrics and research methods at the doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s levels and other substantive courses in the area of demography and poverty.