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positions as a professor in sociology and human development and as a se-
nior researcher at the National Opinion Research Center. In her research,
she uses a sociological lens to understand societal conditions and interper-
sonal interactions that create norms and values that enhance human and
social capital. Her work focuses on how the social contexts of schools and
families influence the academic and social well-being of adolescents as they
move into adulthood. She has a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

C. Matthew Snipp is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford professor
in the Department of Sociology, director of the Center for the Comparative
Study of Race and Ethnicity, and director of the Secure Data Center in the
Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Stanford University. His cur-
rent research and writing deal with the methodology of racial measurement,
changes in the social and economic well-being of American ethnic minori-
ties, and American Indian education. He also has been involved with several
advisory working groups evaluating the 2000 census and three National
Research Council panels focused on the 2010 and 2020 censuses; has served
as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics;
and served on the council of the Inter-University Consortium of Political
and Social Research. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison.

Miron L. Straf (Study Director) is deputy director of the Division of Behav-
ioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Research Council
and study director of the division’s project on the use of social science
research as evidence in public policy. Previously he served as director of
the division’s Committee on National Statistics and at the National Science
Foundation, where he worked on developing the research priority area for
the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. He has also taught at the
University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics
and Political Science. His major research interests are government statistics
and the use of information for public policy decision making. He has a
Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Chicago.

Jack E. Triplett has been with the Brookings Institution since 1997, cur-
rently as nonresident senior fellow. Previously, he has held the positions of
chief economist at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, associate com-
missioner for research and evaluation at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and
assistant director for price monitoring at the U.S. Council on Wage and
Price Stability. He has been particularly interested in methodological issues
involved in estimating price, output, and productivity measures for high-
tech products, including computers, and for other goods and services that

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