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Ashlesha Datar
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  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Mark Gonzalez
  • Hunter Green
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Orla Hayden
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  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
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  • Samuel Lau
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  • Yeeun Lee
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  • Ying Liu
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  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
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  • Eva Ortega
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  • Astrid Ouyang
  • Tabasa Ozawa
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  • Francisco Perez-Arce
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  • Tanya Sethi
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Alejandra Tantamango
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Meynard John Toledo
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Michael Upchurch
  • Marymar Vacio
  • Michele Warnock
  • Bas Weerman
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Marta Bilghese
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Yizhou Chen
  • Sandy Chien
  • Aidan Cole
  • Jill Darling
  • Brian Finch
  • Deborah Finkel
  • Maya Fransz-Myers
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Marshall Garland
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Hooman Gol
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Mark Gonzalez
  • Hunter Green
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Orla Hayden
  • Angelica Hernandez
  • Raymond Hernandez
  • Brett Jordan
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Miles Kimball
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Samuel Lau
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Pey-Jiuan Lee
  • Yeeun Lee
  • Ruby Ling
  • Ying Liu
  • Rachel Lobo
  • Italo Lopez Garcia
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
  • Mary Mitchell
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Kathleen Mullen
  • Emma Nichols
  • Bart Orriens
  • Eva Ortega
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Astrid Ouyang
  • Tabasa Ozawa
  • Blake Palomino
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Sarah Petrosyan
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Olivia Pomeroy
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Amie Rapaport
  • Catalina Ruple
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Evan Sandlin
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Tanya Sethi
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Alejandra Tantamango
  • Natalie Theys
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Meynard John Toledo
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Michael Upchurch
  • Marymar Vacio
  • Michele Warnock
  • Bas Weerman
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro

Ashlesha Datar

Senior Economist
Contact
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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