Doctoral Student Affiliate
Sarah Hodgman (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and an affiliate of the
Annenberg Institute for School Reform and the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown
University. Sarah’s work examines how education and social policies shape the lives of children and
families. For example, she is currently using quasi-experimental methods to explore the effects of the
Early Head Start program on families’ short-term circumstances (i.e., child care arrangements, parental
employment, household income and poverty status) and children’s long-term outcomes (i.e.,
educational attainment, economic stability, and health and incarceration status). Previously, Sarah
worked for the Youth, Family, and Community Development program at the American Institutes for
Research. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with focus in Applied Statistics from the University of
Michigan (Go Blue!) and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Brown University.
