Areas of expertise
Education • Health • Race
Biography
Leila Morsy has been a research associate with EPI since 2015. She is the co-author of three EPI studies, Five Social Disadvantages that Depress Student Performance: Why Schools Alone Can’t Close Achievement Gaps; Mass Incarceration and Children’s Outcomes: Criminal Justice Policy is Education Policy; and Parents’ Non-Standard Work Schedules Make Adequate Childrearing Difficult: Reforming Labor Market Practices Can Improve Children’s Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes. Dr. Morsy’s research interests include race, socioeconomic inequality, and health inequities and children’s outcomes. Dr. Morsy can be contacted at leila.morsy@flinders.edu.au.
Education
Ed.D., Harvard University Graduate School of Education
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Toxic stress and children’s outcomes
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Toxic stress and children’s outcomes: African American children growing up poor are at greater risk of disrupted physiological functioning and depressed academic achievement
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How does our discriminatory criminal justice system affect children?: Black children are six times as likely as white children to have a parent who’s been incarcerated
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Criminal justice policy is education policy
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Mass incarceration and children’s outcomes: Criminal justice policy is education policy
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The lead crisis in Flint will affect the city for years to come
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Parents’ Non-Standard Work Schedules Make Adequate Childrearing Difficult: Reforming Labor Market Practices Can Improve Children’s Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes
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Five Social Disadvantages That Depress Student Performance: Why Schools Alone Can’t Close Achievement Gaps