Daniela Urbina Julio

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email urbinaju@usc.edu

Research & Practice Areas

Demography, Family, Gender, Education

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology. I study family demography, gender inequality, education, and quantitative methods.

Before joining USC, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. I completed a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University. My work has been published in Demography, Journal of Marriage and Family, Population and Development Review, Sociological Methods and Research, among other outlets, and has received awards from the Development, Family, and Methodology sections of the American Sociological Association.

Postdoctoral Researcher , Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. University of Oxford , 2021 – 2023
Summary Statement of Research Interests

One strand of my work explores the demographic implications of the rise of women’s education relative to men in Latin America, particularly for union formation and within-household inequalities. A second strand focuses on the role of cultural beliefs about family and gender on assortative mating, the division of household labor, and students’ career choices. Methodologically, I combine demographic and causal inference methods to analyze these topics, including computational tools and original data collected via survey experiments.

Research Keywords

Family Demography, Gender, Education, Quantitative Methods, Latin America.

Research Specialties

Demography, Family, Gender, Education
(Fall 2024) SOCI 169. Changing Family Forms, MW, 09:30am – 10:50am

(Spring 2025) SOCI 642. Sex and Gender in Society, T, 09:00am – 11:50am

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