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CESR Staff

CESR Staff

Ashlesha Datar
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  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
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  • Daniel Benjamin
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  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
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  • Amy Chitsazan
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Maribel Estrada
  • Brian Finch
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  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Andre Gray
  • Hunter Green
  • Tarush Gupta
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Haomiao Jin
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Shao Kanghong
  • Abhishek Karmakar
  • Miles Kimball
  • Sara King
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Siah Lesher
  • Ying Liu
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kraig Ludensky
  • Grace Mak
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Leah McConnell
  • Erik Meijer
  • Marilyn Mendez
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Bart Orriens
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Giacomo Rebellato
  • Sarah Ritz
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Anya Samek
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Shreemayi Samujjwala
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Sarah Velasco
  • Tina Vuong
  • Diana Wang
  • Chelsea Watson
  • Bas Weerman
  • Cheng K Fred Wen
  • Emily White
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Alexander Young
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Pawan Ahuja
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Benjamin
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Alexandria Braboy
  • Rebecca Braganca
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Sandy Chien
  • Amy Chitsazan
  • Jill Darling
  • Maribel Estrada
  • Brian Finch
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Andre Gray
  • Hunter Green
  • Tarush Gupta
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Haomiao Jin
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Shao Kanghong
  • Abhishek Karmakar
  • Miles Kimball
  • Sara King
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Siah Lesher
  • Ying Liu
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kraig Ludensky
  • Grace Mak
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Leah McConnell
  • Erik Meijer
  • Marilyn Mendez
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Bart Orriens
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Giacomo Rebellato
  • Sarah Ritz
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Anya Samek
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Shreemayi Samujjwala
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Sarah Velasco
  • Tina Vuong
  • Diana Wang
  • Chelsea Watson
  • Bas Weerman
  • Cheng K Fred Wen
  • Emily White
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Alexander Young
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro

Ashlesha Datar

Senior Economist
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VPD, Room 505C
213.821.2787
adatar@usc.edu
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Curriculum Vitae
Biographical Sketch
Ashlesha Datar is a Senior Economist and Director of Program on Children and Families at the Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR). Her research focuses on the role of school, neighborhood, and other contextual factors in determining children’s health and educational outcomes, with a special focus on childhood obesity. In her current research, Datar is studying the factors explaining the emergence of socioeconomic disparities in childhood obesity. She is also leading a large NICHD-funded study to examine how food and physical activity environments influence diet, activity behaviors and obesity among military children. She is the recipient of several grants from federal agencies and private foundations, including the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her research has been published in leading health, education, and policy journals. Datar received an MA in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School.
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