Professor Ravaris Moore earned his B.A. at Morehouse College with a double major in Mathematics and Economics. He completed his doctoral studies in Sociology, as well as M.A. degrees in Sociology and Economics at UCLA. Prior to matriculating at UCLA, he contributed to several national evaluations as a Research Programmer at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. in the areas of education, health, and child and family well-being. Professor Moore is a quantitative sociologist with training in the fields of Social Stratification and Social Demography. His work employs quantitative methods with large-scale microdata to explore questions of inequality at the intersection of race and ethnicity, education, and health. He is presently advancing papers that examine the effects of gun-violence on students and schools, and the effects of police shootings on implicit trust in law enforcement and subsequent inclinations to request police intervention. Other work investigates heterogeneity in the effects of parental incarceration on children’s educational and cognitive achievement.