Dr. Daniela Urbina Julio

Biography

Daniela Urbina Julio is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She specializes in family demography, gender inequality, education, and quantitative methods. Before joining USC, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. Urbina Julio completed her Ph.D. in Social Policy at Princeton University. Her research has been published in various academic journals, including Demography, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Population and Development Review. She has received awards from the American Sociological Association for her work on development and family methodology. Her current research interests include the demographic implications of the rise of women's education relative to men in Latin America, particularly regarding union formation and in-household inequalities. Additionally, she focuses on the role of cultural beliefs in family dynamics, gender assortative mating, and the division of household labor, along with students’ career choices, employing demographic causal inference methods and computational tools with original data collected from survey experiments.

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