I’m a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley.

I study the unequal health consequences of shifts in U.S. politics and examine immigration policies, laws, and institutions as drivers of disparities among immigrants and their families. Leveraging causal inference techniques, I link citizen-contributed data to traditional health data to study the link between politics and health. My research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Demography, Population and Development Review, Socius & JAMA Network Open

planger@berkeley.edu

Research Interests

Health | Politics | Race & Ethnicity | Immigration