Garrett Baker

PhD Candidate, Duke University

Sociology and Public Policy

I am a PhD candidate at Duke University in the Department of Sociology and the Sanford School of Public Policy. My research centers on families, inequality, and institutions of social control. I’m also interested in quantitative methods broadly defined, and my work draws especially from techniques in causal inference, demography, and structural equation modeling.

My current projects focus on family member incarceration, cross-generational family dynamics, and the reproduction of inequality in the contemporary US. While I work with a wide range of administrative and survey data, much of my ongoing research revolves around the PHDCN+ (read more here) and the Family Incarceration Costs Survey (FICS), which I developed with Dr. Chris Wildeman to provide the first national estimates of the financial costs of familial incarceration.

My research has been published in various academic journals including Demography, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Sociological Science. I’ve also received numerous awards, including the Gene Carte Student Paper Award (given by the American Society of Criminology in recognition of the most outstanding paper written by a student) and the Vorsanger-Smith Scholar Award (given by Duke’s Sociology Department for overall excellence in the graduate program).

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