PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1997

• Dissertation: The Role of Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally Ill in Meeting the Mental Health Care Needs of Residents: Treatment and Policy Implications 1998

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2006

• Dissertation: Personalizing Development Policy: Participant Sense-making of a Poverty Reduction Project in the Afram Plains of Ghana 2005

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1991

• Dissertation: Job Turnover of Disadvantaged, Inner-City, Minority Workers Over A One-Year Period 1991

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1997

• Dissertation: Through a Looking-glass: Making Sense of the Development and Implementation of OBRA ‘87 in Illinois 1997

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2003

• Dissertation: Effects of Parental AFDC Receipt on Children and Adolescents: Evidence from the NLSY and the PSID 2003

B.A. (English Language and Literature), University of Chicago, 1994

M.A. (Social Service Administration), University of Chicago, 1997

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2010

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2006

• Dissertation: From Sensemaking to Knowledge Creation: A comparison of teacher learning across two school subjects 2006

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1994

• Dissertation: An Examination and Elaboration of the Polarity Theory of Personal Ideology 1994

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1991

• Dissertation: Sex Differences in Severity of Illness in Older Adults, and the Concept of High Risk Morbidity: An Empirical Study 1991

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2003

• Dissertation: How Student Effort Affects Educational Outcomes: The Role of Student Agency within Social Structure and School Context 2002

BA, English with Spanish minor (summa cum laude), Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, 1994

MA, English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 1996

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2006

• Dissertation: Constructing a Dual Language Policy in a New Immigrant Community: Conflicts, Contexts, and Kids 2006

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2001

• Dissertation: Stories and Stages: Teacher Development and Mathematics Education Reform 2000

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1999

• Dissertation: Mapping Trajectories of Changes: Methodologies for Understanding Human Development 1999

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1999

• Dissertation: On Being Twelve: The Worlds of Early Adolescents in an Urban Neighborhood 1999

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1996

• Dissertation: Determinants of Caregivers’ Decisions about Respite Service Use: To Use or Not to Use 1996

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1994

• Dissertation: Public Guardianship for Adults: The Rhetoric of Reform and the Realities of Implementation 1994

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2001

• Dissertation: A State’s Shaping of a Federal Welfare Initiative: The Illinois Policy Process and the Illinois JOBS Program 2001

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2001

• Dissertation: You Choose, Evaluators Lose: Selection bias in evaluations of social programs 2001

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1986

• Dissertation: Sibling Relationships in Retrospect: A Study of Reminiscence in Old Age 1986

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2001

• Dissertation: Non-Parent Adult Support Figures in the Lives of Inner-City Youth 2000

MBA, Northeastern University, 1986

Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1976

BA, Mathematics, Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges, 1974

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2005

• Dissertation: Predictors of Digital Fluency 2005

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1986

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1997

• Dissertation: Generativity and Social Involvement 1997

Master of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, 1999

Bachelor of Arts, University of Washington, 1994

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol (Human Development and Social Policy) , Northwestern University, 2007

• Dissertation: Welfare Policy and Maternal Employment among Parents with Infants and Toddlers 2007

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2000

• Dissertation: Employment, Social Support, and Well-Being Among Low-Income Mothers: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis 2000

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1999

• Dissertation: Learning by All in a Math-Talk Learning Community 1999

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1987

• Dissertation: Identity Formation and Racial Coping Strategies of Black Children and Their Parents: A Stress and Coping Paradigm 1987

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2002

• Dissertation: College Bound: School, Family and Society in the Constructions of Student’ Post-high School Futures 2001

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol (Human Development and Social Policy) , Northwestern University, 1997

BA, Oberlin College, 1980

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1991

• Dissertation: Low-Income Black Youth in White Suburbs: Education and Employment Outcomes 1991

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1995

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2006

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1990

• Dissertation: A Comparative Study of Children’s Extra-Familial Intergenerational Relations 1990

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1994

• Dissertation: Medical Insurance, Post Hospital Care, and Short Term 1994

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2006

• Dissertation: Social Foundations of Early School Success Among Low-income Children: The Role of Self-regulation & Home, Classroom, & Policy Contexts 2005

Masters in Public Policy, Georgetown University, 2004

Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Duke University, 2002

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2010

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1996

• Dissertation: The Effects of Violence on the Labor Force Participation of Women 1996

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2002

• Dissertation: On Women Becoming & Being Principals: Pathways, Patterns & Personal Accounts 2002

AB, French Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1970

MA, French Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin, 1971

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1993

• Dissertation: Gender Differences in the Expression of Generativity 1993

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1996

• Dissertation: Single Mothers’ Living Arrangements 1997

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2003

• Dissertation: The Intergenerational Benefits of Maternal Education: The Effect of Increases in Mothers’ Educational Attainment on Children’s Academic Outcomes 2002

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1998

• Dissertation: Redeeming One’s Self: How Reformed Ex-offenders Make Sense of Their Lives 1998

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2005

• Dissertation: Silicon Ceilings: The Gendered Digital Production Divide and Single Sex Technology Education: A Study of Computer Attitudes of Girls in Single Sex and Coeducational High Schools 2004

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1998

• Dissertation: Inclusion and Reform: The Contemporary History of a State Mental Hospital 1998

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2004

• Dissertation: Attracting the Attention of Child Protective Services: The Added Risk of Disruptive Life Events for Low-Income Families 2003

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2005

• Dissertation: Black Women in Gautreaux's Housing Desegregation Program: The Role of Networks and Neighborhoods in Economic Independence 2004

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1994

• Dissertation: Parent-Adult Child Relations: Does Only Child Status Make A Difference? 1994

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1998

• Dissertation: Help Wanted: The Role of High Schools in Helping Students Find Good Jobs and Employers Find Good Workers 1998

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1995

• Dissertation: Phetoric & Reality: The Problems of Juvenile Sexual Offending 1995

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2003

• Dissertation: School Climate and its Relationship to Developmental Outcomes in the Middle School Years 2002

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1991

• Dissertation: Explorations into the Correlates of Public School Reform and Parent Involvement 1991

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2001

• Dissertation: Non-Parental Social Support and the Well-Being of Minority Youth 2000

BA, Sociology, Wesleyan University, 1994

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2005

• Dissertation: The Effect of Parental Employment on Children's Academic Achievement in the Context of Welfare Reform 2005

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1991

• Dissertation: Welfare Recipiency Among the Seriously Mentally Ill 1991

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1999

• Dissertation: Negotiating Change: Dilemmas of Collaboration and Consensus in Human Services 1999

Bachelor of Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude, Northwestern University, 2000

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol (Human Development and Social Policy) , Northwestern University, 2007

• Dissertation: Antecedents, Consequences and Pathways of Associations between Interparental Discord and Child Development in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence: An Examination of Negative Emotionality, Child Cognitive and Socioemotional Functioning and HPA –axis activit 2007

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1997

• Dissertation: The Child Care and Educational Planning of African-American and Latina Adolescent Mothers 1997

BA (cum laude), History, Georgetown University, 1991

Master of Public Administration (with distinction), University of Wyoming, 1999

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol (Human Development and Social Policy) , Northwestern University, 2007

• Dissertation: Long Journey on a Short Path: Information, Organization, and Student Success in Two-Year Colleges 2007

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1998

• Dissertation: Welfare: Views from the Bottom 1988

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1990

• Dissertation: The Relationship of Adult Daughters with Their Dependent Mothers 1990

Bachelor of Arts, California State University at Humboldt, 1982

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol (Human Development and Social Policy) , Northwestern University, 1997

• Dissertation: Poor Mothers at Work: Balancing Family and Labor Market Responsibilities in an Inner City Community 1997

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1989

• Dissertation: The Negotiation of Admission, Commitment and Discharge in Chicago’s State Mental Hospitals: An Interactive Approach to Policy Analysis 1989

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2003

• Dissertation: The Trade-offs of Full Time Work: Effects of Parents’ Work Hours on Young Adolescents 2002

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1999

• Dissertation: On the Margins of Family and Work: Life Course Trajectories of Low Income, Single Fathers in an African American Community 1999

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1994

• Dissertation: Social Support and Life Satisfaction of Older, Childless Women and Mothers Living in Nursing Homes 1994

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1992

• Dissertation: Informal Age Deadlines for Life-Course Transitions 1992

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1993

• Dissertation: Opportunities for Resident Control in Long-term Institutions: A Comparison Across Three Types of Institutions 1993

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1989

• Dissertation: Corporate Mobility: The Effects on Children 1989

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2001

• Dissertation: Beyond the School Walls: Exploring the Relationship between Urban Neighborhood Risk and Protectic Factors and Student Achievement 2000

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1996

• Dissertation: The Interracial Friendships of White and Asian College Students 1996

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2005

• Dissertation: Starting School on Unequal Ground: Environmental Origins of School Readiness and Early Academic Disparities 2004

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1999

• Dissertation: Men and Women in the Unemployment Insurance System: Gendered Effects of the Two-Tiered Welfare State 1999

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1998

• Dissertation: Longitudinal Study of the School Self-Concepts of African-American Elementary School Children 1998

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 1997

• Dissertation: Listening to Children: Three Studies Toward Developing, Evaluating, and Replicating a New Approach to Parent Education, Support, and Empowerment 1997

BA, University of Chicago, 1998

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol (Human Development and Social Policy) , Northwestern University, 2010

Vivian C. Wong, PhD, is a research methodologist in the field of education. Her research interests include program evaluation in education contexts, causal inference, empirical tests of quasi-experimental designs, and addressing design, implementation, and analytic issues in regression-discontinuity design studies. She is the lead author of an RD evaluation of five state pre-kindergarten programs in Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia, and is currently working on examining regression-discontinuity designs with multiple assignment variables and cutoffs.




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BA Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, 2000

PhD, Human Dev & Social Pol , Northwestern University, 2009

• Dissertation: Neighborhood Safety and Moving to Opportunity: Understanding Gender and Life Course Differences using a Mixed-Methods Approach 2009