Jennifer L. Jennings

Jennifer L. Jennings is the Director of the Education Research Section and The Class of 1988 Professor in Domestic Policy and professor of sociology and public affairs; Faculty Director of the Education Studies undergraduate minor (via the Teacher Prep Program), and co-Director of the Joint Degree Program in Social Policy. 

Her research focuses on how education policies affect inequality in children’s outcomes by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and gender. She received her Ph.D in Sociology from Columbia University, and her BA from Princeton University, where she majored in the Woodrow Wilson School and received a certificate in the Teacher Preparation Program.

CV-2026

New book: The Scarcity Loop

Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW) article: Inequality in Schools 

School Choice and the Rationing of Educational Opportunity

You Can’t Choose Your Way Out of a School Shortage

New Book:

The Scarcity Loop