Jared Schachner
Research Scientist at the USC Price School of Public Policy
Jared Schachner completed his PhD in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard, where he was a doctoral fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy and a Meyer Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies. He spent his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mansueto Institute and Crown School. His research examines whether and how urban neighborhoods, schools, and childcare settings mediate the intergenerational transmission of skills and status. To this end, he draws on theories and methods from urban sociology, inequality/stratification, sociology of education, social policy, and spatial analysis and uses his hometown of Los Angeles as a case study. Prior to completing his doctorate, Jared attended Harvard’s Kennedy School, worked at the New York City Department of Education, consulted several national nonprofits, including the United Negro College Fund, Audubon Society, and Women’s World Banking on their social impact strategies, and received a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics & Economics and Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.