Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Therese Leung

Department of Sociology, Department of Sociology

Therese Leung is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department. She graduated with her BA in Mathematics from Wellesley in 1998. Before coming to graduate school, Therese worked as a management consultant and then as a fiscal policy analyst for the White House Budget Office in Washington, DC where she helped develop President Bush's budget proposals for federal low-income economic assistance and social service programs. Her research interests are in social policy, demography, wage inequality, and gender. She is currently working on her dissertation, a re-examination of the motherhood wage penalty. Some of her more recent work applies inverse-probability-of-treatment weighting to the study of earnings differences between women with and without children.