Visiting Researcher
Agustina Laurito is a visiting researcher for the 2025-2026 academic year. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy, Management, and Analytics at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Agustina is an applied policy researcher who uses administrative and survey data to answer questions at the intersection of social, education, and health policy in urban contexts. She is broadly interested in how social and physical environments as risk or promotive forces affect children and family outcomes in ways that may reinforce or mitigate inequality. Among her current projects, Agustina studies the effects of community violence on children, the role of public greenspaces on child development, food assistance and the health safety net, and the effects of neighborhood change. Agustina is also interested in immigration, and her projects in this area investigate the role of home-country shocks in shaping the success and wellbeing of immigrants in the United States.