Agustina Laurito
Assistant Professor
Public Policy, Management and Analytics
Pronouns: she/her/ella
Contact
Building & Room:
AEH 2118 (MC 278)
Address:
400 S. Peoria Street Suite 2100
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About
Agustina Laurito is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration. She is an applied policy researcher who uses administrative and survey data and quasi experimental methods to answer questions at the intersection of social, education, and health policy mostly in urban contexts. Agustina is broadly interested in how adverse experiences affect children and families and the role of public policy in ameliorating these effects. Among her current projects, she studies food assistance programs, and SNAP in particular, neighborhood crime and children, and more recently the effect of the opioid crisis on children and families. Agustina is also interested in immigrant families and children and her projects in this area investigate the role of non-school factors, including the home country, in shaping immigrant children academic success and well-being.
Teaching Fall 2023
PPOL 231 Introduction to Social Policy and Inequality in the U.S.
Past Teaching
PPOL 405 Evaluating Public Policies and Programs
PPOL 307 Policy Analysis and Alternatives
PA 506 Policy Development, Analysis, and Implementation
PA 540 Research Design for Public Administration
Selected Grants
Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) University of Illinois Chicago, Se habla español? Medicaid expansions and substance use treatment services for Spanish speakers, Faculty Fellow
University of Illinois Chicago - Award for Creative Activity, "Public Mental Health Facility Closures and Criminal Justice Contact in Chicago", Co-PI
Russell Sage Foundation, "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Homeownership and Gaps in Student Achievement", PI
University of Illinois Chicago - Award for Creative Activity, "The Effect of the Heroin Epidemic on Grandparent Caregiving", PI
Tufts/UConn Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Program, “SNAP, School Meals, and the Food Security of Multigenerational Households”, PI
Selected Publications
Laurito, A., & Guzman, L. (2023). Top Latino metro areas saw large declines in child care employment early in the pandemic, with slow recovery among Latino child care workers. National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families. DOI: 10.59377/618h9115
Cordes, S. A., & Laurito, A. (2023). The effects of charter schools on neighborhood and school segregation: Evidence from New York City. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1-20.
Zandiatashbar, A., & Laurito, A. (2022). An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Built Environment and Safety in Chicago’s Transit Station Areas. Journal of the American Planning Association, 1-15.
Schwartz, A. E., Laurito, A., Lacoe, J., Sharkey, P., & Ellen, I. G. (2021). The academic effects of chronic exposure to neighborhood violence. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980211052149
Laurito, A., & Schwartz, A. E. (2019). Does School Lunch Fill the “SNAP Gap” at the End of the Month?. Southern Economic Journal, 86(1), 49-82.
Education
PhD New York University
MPP Duke University