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CSDE Research Affiliate

Michael A. Schultz

Senior Research Scientist, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
University of Washington

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CSDE Research Areas:

  • Demographic Measurements and Methods
  • Environments and Populations
  • Wellbeing of Families and Households

    Michael A. Schultz is a quantitative sociologist and social demographer who studies economic mobility, social policy, and workers’ careers. Schultz received his PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed an NICHD postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Research Center. His research has been published in leading social science journals, including the American Sociological Review, the Russell Sage Foundation Journal for the Social Sciences, and Social Science Research. Schultz uses a structural inequality approach that focuses on how institutions, like education systems, job ladders, and welfare state programs shape worker mobility by race, gender, and class. He specializes in telling stories with data to provide insight into how workers and households navigate opportunities and constraints to advance their careers and gain economic security. Schultz is the PI on an NSF Education Core grant studying the job ladders in the STEM Skilled Technical Workforce and on a Strada Education Foundation grant investigating the occupational and wage outcomes of WA postsecondary school leavers in partnership with the WA Education Research & Data Center (ERDC). Schultz works in partnership with local and state governments and communities to conduct social impact research for the public good.