Daniela Urbina is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her research spans family sociology, gender inequality, and education. One strand of this work explores the demographic implications of the rise of women's education 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.  

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