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  1. College Students’ Sense of Belonging: A Graduation Update

    Article • Educational Researcher, November 2025, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  2. Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus

    Article • Educational Psychology Review, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  3. Historical Patterns and Trends in Teacher-Student Demographic Changes in the United States

    Article • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  4. College students’ sense of belonging and alcohol use amidst COVID-19: Evidence from a 21-day daily diary study

    Article • PLOS One, December 2024, PLOS

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  5. Who feels like they belong? Personality and belonging in college

    Article • PLOS One, January 2024, PLOS

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  6. Historical Patterns and Trends in Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in School Discipline in the United States

    Article • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  7. The Stubborn Unresponsiveness of Youth Voter Turnout to Civic Education: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From State-Mandated Civics Tests

    Article • Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, September 2023, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  8. Where and with whom does a brief social-belonging intervention promote progress in college?

    Article • Science, May 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan, Parker Goyer

  9. The Stubborn Unresponsiveness of Youth Voter Turnout to Civic Education: Quasi-experimental Evidence from State-Mandated Civics Tests

    Article • January 2023, Center for Open Science

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  10. Health Policies as Education Policies? A Review of Causal Evidence and Mechanisms

    Article • AERA Open, January 2023, SAGE Publications

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  11. The Effects of Campus Shootings on School Finance and Student Composition

    Article • Education Finance and Policy, January 2023, The MIT Press

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  12. Impacts of publicly funded health insurance for adults on children's academic achievement

    Article • Southern Economic Journal, December 2022, Wiley

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  13. K–12 Civil Rights Complaints: A Nationwide Analysis

    Article • Educational Researcher, November 2022, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  14. College Students’ Sense of Belonging and Mental Health Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Journal of Adolescent Health, February 2022, Elsevier

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  15. Better Late than Never: Effects of Late ACA Medicaid Expansions for Parents on Family Health-Related Financial Well-being

    Article • January 2022, Center for Open Science

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  16. Better Late Than Never: Effects of Late ACA Medicaid Expansions for Parents on Family Health-Related Financial Well-Being

    Article • INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  17. Effects of parental public health insurance eligibility on parent and child health outcomes

    Article • Economics & Human Biology, January 2022, Elsevier

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  18. Effects of Parental Public Health Insurance Eligibility on Parent and Child Health Outcomes

    Article • June 2021, Center for Open Science

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  19. The Effects of Campus Shooting on School Finance and Student Composition

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  20. How does adopting a Growth Mindset Improve Academic Performance? Probing the Underlying Mechanisms in a Nationally- Representative Sample

    Article • August 2020, Center for Open Science

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  21. A customized belonging intervention improves retention of socially disadvantaged students at a broad-access university

    Article • Science Advances, July 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  22. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 275 pp., $22.50.

    Article • American Journal of Education, May 2020, University of Chicago Press

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  23. Use of Quasi-Experimental Research Designs in Education Research: Growth, Promise, and Challenges

    Article • Review of Research in Education, March 2020, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  24. College Students’ Sense of Belonging: A National Perspective

    Article • Educational Researcher, December 2019, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  25. Educación del cuerpo y biopolítica en el Uruguay posdictadura (1985- 1990)

    Article • Education Policy Analysis Archives, December 2019, Education Policy Analysis Archives

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  26. Understanding the linkages between racial/ethnic discipline gaps and racial/ethnic achievement gaps in the United States

    Article • Education Policy Analysis Archives, December 2019, Education Policy Analysis Archives

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  27. A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement

    Article • Nature, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  28. Understanding the Racial Discipline Gap in Schools

    Article • AERA Open, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  29. Is the National Study of Learning Mindsets Nationally-Representative?

    Article • November 2018, Center for Open Science

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan

  30. Applying Behavioral Insights in Policy Analysis: Recent Trends in the United States

    Article • Policy Studies Journal, May 2017, Wiley

    Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy Maithreyi Gopalan