Laura Tach
{{Short description|American professor}}
Laura Tach is an American professor of policy analysis and management and sociology at Cornell University. She is the co-director with Rachel Dunifon of Cornell Project 2Gen, a research initiative supporting disadvantaged caregivers and children.{{cite web |title=Laura Tach |url=https://www.human.cornell.edu/people/lmt88 |website=Cornell College of Human Ecology |accessdate=16 January 2020 |language=en}} In collaboration with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, Tach studies the relationship between opioid abuse and child maltreatment. The study was funded by a multi-year grant from the William T. Grant Foundation.{{cite web |title=Cornell awarded $650,000 grant to fight opioid abuse |url=https://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/2018/04/10/cornell-awarded-650-000-grant-fight-opioid-abuse/502562002/ |website=Ithaca Journal |accessdate=16 January 2020 |language=en}} Tach has studied the relationship between "microenvironments", or the neighborhood blocks where one resides, affect educational success.{{cite web |last1=Campbell |first1=Alexia Fernández |title=Neighborhoods Can Shape Success, Down to the Level of a City Block |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/how-a-neighborhood-block-can-affect-a-persons-success/483983/ |website=The Atlantic |accessdate=16 January 2020 |date=23 May 2016}}
She earned a PhD at Harvard University.https://sociology.cornell.edu/laura-tach
Selected publications
- {{cite journal |last1=McLanahan |first1=Sara |last2=Tach |first2=Laura |last3=Schneider |first3=Daniel |title=The Causal Effects of Father Absence |journal=Annual Review of Sociology |date=30 July 2013 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=399–427 |doi=10.1146/annurev-soc-071312-145704|pmid=24489431 |pmc=3904543 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Laura Tach |last2=Ronald Mincy |last3=Kathryn Edin |title=Parenting as a "Package Deal": Relationships, Fertility, and Nonresident Father Involvement Among Unmarried Parents |journal=Demography |date=2010 |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=181–204 |doi=10.1353/dem.0.0096|pmid=20355690 |pmc=3000012 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Odgers |first1=Candice L. |authorlink1=Candice Odgers |last2=Moffitt |first2=Terrie E. |last3=Tach |first3=Laura M. |last4=Sampson |first4=Robert J. |last5=Taylor |first5=Alan |last6=Matthews |first6=Charlotte L. |last7=Caspi |first7=Avshalom |title=The protective effects of neighborhood collective efficacy on British children growing up in deprivation: A developmental analysis. |journal=Developmental Psychology |date=2009 |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=942–957 |pmc=4212822|doi=10.1037/a0016162|pmid=19586172 |url=http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33010413 |hdl=2027.42/151342 |hdl-access=free }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Tach |first1=Laura Marie |last2=Farkas |first2=George |title=Learning-related behaviors, cognitive skills, and ability grouping when schooling begins |journal=Social Science Research |date=December 2006 |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=1048–1079 |doi=10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.08.001}}
References
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External links
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- [https://bctr.cornell.edu/projects/project-2gen/ Cornell Project 2Gen]
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Category:American sociologists
Category:American women sociologists
Category:American women social scientists
Category:Cornell University faculty
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Category:21st-century American women
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