FRED H. BIXBY
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Mentor Research Interests

Mark R. Montgomery, Ph.D.

Mark Montgomery’s research interests lie in the areas of urban poverty, urban health, and both spatial and econometric models of developing-country city growth. He is especially interested in empirical studies of slum populations, and in the new measures of urban poverty that go beyond the conventional income- and consumption-based measures to address issues of crime, violence, insecurity of tenure, political voice, and inequality.

His current research focuses on:

• Urban poverty and health. Work with UN-Habitat on empirical studies of urban poverty and health (with poverty mapping being one important tool), and collaboration with the UN Population Division and colleagues at Baruch College and Columbia University on a project that joins urban demographic data (from surveys) with spatial and remotely sensed data on the spatial extents of LDC cities. The aim of this research is to better estimate and forecast city growth.
• Demographic and health implications of governmental decentralization.
• Inequality. Montgomery sees a good deal of promise in the measures developed by social psychologists who seek to identify how inequality is experienced subjectively and trace its connections to measures of individual and community efficacy.

Montgomery would welcome the opportunity to be a mentor to a Bixby fellow with good econometric and data-analysis abilities, including skills in the area of GIS.

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