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Ariel Kalil, Ph.D.
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Ariel Kalil is an associate professor in the Harris
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Ariel Kalil is an associate professor in the Harris School and director of the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy. She is a developmental psychologist who studies how economic conditions affect child and family functioning. Her projects have examined how transitions from welfare to work affect mothers and children, barriers to the employment of welfare recipients, as well as family processes and child development in female-headed, teenage-parent, and cohabiting-couple households. With funding from a William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award, she is currently conducting a multi-method study of the effects of parental job loss on child development. A second major project, funded by the Foundation for Child Development's Changing Faces of America's Children Young Scholars Program, focuses on how parental labor market experiences and welfare program participation affect children's development in immigrant families. Finally, she is studying how job insecurity and job displacement affect mental and physical health and stress among older workers.
Kalil received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Michigan in 1996. Before joining the Harris School faculty in 1999, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan's Poverty Research and Training Center (now the National Poverty Center). She is also affiliated with the University of Chicago's Population Research Center, the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, and the Sloan Center on Working Families. In 2003, she was awarded the Society for Research in Child Development's first Award for Early Research Contributions.
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