William Schneider

PhD - Columbia University, MS, MSW

Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Expertise

Parents & Families – Parenting, Parents & Families – Families, Systems – Child Welfare, Communities & Contexts – Poverty, Adverse Life Experience – Child Abuse / Neglect, Research Approaches & Methods – Hierarchical and Advanced Modeling Techniques, Research Approaches & Methods – Policy Research, Research Approaches & Methods – Quasi-Experimental Methods

Bio

William Schneider, Ph.D., MSW, is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and faculty director of the Children and Family Research Center. His research explores how macroeconomic factors, poverty, inequality, and family complexity affect child well-being and the prevention of child maltreatment.

Current Projects

With Meg Feely (UConn), Emily Bostk (Rutgers), and Ann Marie Garran (UConn) I am the PI of the Empower Parenting with Resources Study (EmPwR) is the largest randomized control of the effects of unconditional cash gifts for child welfare system involved families.

I am also at work on a project that seeks to link data from pre-existing income and housing support experiments to administrative data on child welfare system involvement in an effort to assess whether these experiments also had effects on child maltreatment.

A final line of research seeks to understand the influence of subjective inequality and intergenerational economic mobility and occupational prestige on parenting practices.