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Kerri Raissian

Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Connecticut

Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Connecticut I am an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut. My research focuses on child and family policy with an emphasis on understanding how policies affect fertility, family formation, and family violence. My research is interdisciplinary and draws on principles from program evaluation, economic demography, and applied microeconomics. I am the Co-Director of UConn’s Gun Violence Prevention – Research Interest Group (GVP-RIG) and the Co-Leader of the Connecticut Chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network. I was a Doris Duke Fellow for the Promotion of Child Well-Being and completed my doctoral degree in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 2013.