Professor Ravaris Moore earned his B.A. at Morehouse College with a double major in Mathematics and Economics. He completed his doctoral studies in Sociology, as well as M.A. degrees in Sociology and Economics at UCLA. Prior to matriculating at UCLA, he contributed to several national evaluations as a Research Programmer at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. in the areas of education, health, and child and family well-being. Professor Moore is a quantitative sociologist with training in the fields of Social Stratification and Social Demography. His work employs quantitative methods with large-scale microdata to explore questions of inequality at the intersection of race and ethnicity, education, and health. He is presently advancing papers that examine the effects of gun-violence on students and schools, and the effects of police shootings on implicit trust in law enforcement and subsequent inclinations to request police intervention. Other work investigates heterogeneity in the effects of parental incarceration on children’s educational and cognitive achievement.
Ravaris L. Moore
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 2018 (Sociology) (Specialty: Social Stratification and Social Demography)
University of California, Los Angeles;
M.A. 2013 (Sociology), University of California, Los Angeles;
M.A. 2010 (Economics), University of California, Los Angeles;
B.A. 2004 (Economics and Mathematics), Morehouse College.
Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility; Education; Quantitative Methods; Demography; Criminology; Race/Ethnicity; Neighborhoods; Family; Poverty
Moore, Ravaris L., Jennie E. Brand, Tanvi Shinkre. 2021. itpscore: Stata module to perform iterative propensity score logistic regression model search procedure. https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s459018.html
Brand, Jennie E., Ravaris Moore, Xi Song, and Yu Xie. "Parental Divorce is Not Uniformly Disruptive to Children’s Educational Attainment." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 15 (2019): 7266-7271.
Brand, Jennie E., Ravaris Moore, Xi Song, and Yu Xie. "Why Does Parental Divorce Lower Children's Educational Attainment? A Causal Mediation Analysis." Sociological Science 6 (2019): 264-292.
Ward, Peter R., Mitchell D. Wong, Ravaris Moore, and Arash Naeim. "Fall-related Injuries in Elderly Cancer Patients Treated with Neurotoxic Chemotherapy: a Retrospective Cohort Study." Journal of Geriatric Oncology 5, no. 1 (2014): 57-64.
Deke, John, Lisa Dragoset, and Ravaris Moore. "Precision Gains from Publically Available School Proficiency Measures Compared to Study-Collected Test Scores in Education Cluster-Randomized Trials. NCEE 2010-4003." National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (2010).
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc, (M. Robin Dion, Alan Hershey, Heather Zaveri, Sarah Avellar, Debra Strong, Timothy Silman, and Ravaris Moore). 2008. “Implementation of the Building Strong Families Program.” Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services.