Lydia Wileden

I am a student in the joint Doctoral program with the Ford School of Public Policy, a Population Studies Center Trainee, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. My research tries to understand how people make sense of their social environments and the impact of imperfect knowledge on neighborhood dynamics. Specifically, my dissertation uses survey data to question where neighborhood reputations come from and to examine the degree to which residents' perceptions of their neighborhoods reflect or distort reality.