Matissa Hollister

Inequality & Social Policy IGERT
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA



Matissa Hollister is currently in residence at Dartmouth College, where she is a post-doctoral fellow in Sociology and in the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. Matissa is studying the effect of family background on career paths and how these career patterns have changed over time. She is particularly interested in how the New Economy has affected opportunities for young men from poor families to escape poverty. Her qualifying paper looked at the New Economy from a more organizational perspective, finding a decline in the relationship between firm size and wages. Matissa's research interests include poverty, the role of organizations in determining job quality, social policy, labor market dynamics, and urban neighborhoods. Matissa received her B.A. in the Growth and Structure of Cities at Haverford College and a Master in City Planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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