Simon Cooper is a PhD student in the departments of sociology and demography at UC Berkeley with research interests in queer/LGBTQ* demography, economic sociology, and law and society. He hopes to critically apply computational techniques to surface (un)intended consequences of policy and law on key demographic outcomes, from the fertility effects of marriage equality to the later-life mortality effects of precarious work.
Before starting his PhD, Simon completed an MPhil in sociology and demography at Oxford, where his masters thesis investigated the causes of enduring socioeconomic disadvantage among queer/LGBTQ* people. Prior to graduate school, he worked for two years on the labor markets team at J-PAL and earned a BA in global affairs (development) from Yale.
