Paige Kelly is a Post Doctoral Associate at Cornell in the Department of Global Development. Her research focuses on how local governments’ social policies affect inequality and poverty by race, rurality and gender in the United States. She has published on rural-urban disparities in voting and local governments’ capacity, economic development programs, and collaboration/competition. She also has expertise in statistically modeling regional processes and a graduate minor in quantitative research methods. She has strong connections to the Rural Sociological Society, having served on their council (2017-2019), as a research interest group chair (2017-present), and on multiple committees (Programming, Awards, Ethics, and Diversity).
