The Institute maintains a multidisciplinary faculty affiliate network, comprised of New York University scholars in applied psychology, developmental psychology, economics, political science, sociology, public policy, and social work. As a core part of its mission, the Institute supports faculty research directly through internal seed grants, but also fosters innovative scholarship by engaging faculty and students in its academic conferences, offering graduate and postgraduate training opportunities, faculty seminars, and facilitating faculty affiliates' dissemination and translation of their findings to the local and national policy communities.

J. Lawrence Aber
Distinguished Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Karen Adolph
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science

LaRue Allen
Raymond and Rosalee Weiss Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Joshua Aronson
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Richard Arum
Professor of Sociology and Education in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Clancy Blair
Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Dana Burde
Assistant Professor of International Education at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and affiliated faculty of the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, and an affiliated research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University

Elise Cappella
Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Dalton Conley
Dean for the Social Sciences and University Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Sean Corcoran
Associate Professor of Educational Economics at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Daniela Del Boca 
Professor of Economics at the University of Turin; Visiting Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Fabienne Doucet
Assistant Professor Education in the Teaching and Learning Department at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Brian Elbel
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at the NYU School of Medicine

Ingrid Gould Ellen
Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Paula England
Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Christopher Flinn
Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Erin Godfrey
Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Arnold Grossman
Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Perry Halkitis
Professor of Applied Psychology, Public Health, & Medicine, and Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Jennifer Hill
Associate Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Diane Hughes
Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Farzana Kapadia
Assistant Professor of Public Health at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Dohoon Lee
Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science 

James Macinko
Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Policy in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Jacqueline Mattis
Professor of Applied Psychology, and Chair of the Department of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Sandee McClowry
Professor of  Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Ann Morning
Associate Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Erin O'Connor
Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Joseph Palamar
Assistant Professor of Child Development and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine

Niyati Parekh
Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Public Health at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

C. Cybele Raver
Vice Provost of Academic, Faculty and Research Affairs at New York University

Marjorie Rhodes
Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Amy Ellen Schwartz
Professor of Public Policy and Education and Economics with a dual appointment to the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; Director, Institute for Education and Social Policy

Marc Scott
Associate Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Edward Seidman
Professor of Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Patrick Sharkey
Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science 

Pat Shrout
Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Diana Silver
Assistant Professor of Public Health at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Selcuk Sirin
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Leanna Stiefel
Professor of Economics at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Catherine Tamis-LeMonda
Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Florencia Torche
Associate Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Athena Vouloumanos
Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Niobe Way
Professor of Applied Psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Sharon Weinberg
Professor of Applied Statistics and Psychology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Matthew Wiswall
Assistant Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science

Lawrence Wu
Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Science; Director, Center for Advanced Social Science Research