<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/sociology/graduate/graduate-students/walid-abdul-qader.html" dsn="people"><first_name>Walid</first_name><last_name>Abdul-Qader</last_name><prefixes/><pronouns/><post_nominals/><title-1>Master's Student</title-1><title-2>Fields: Digital Inequality, Poverty, Quantitative Methods</title-2><title-3/><title-4/><department>Sociology</department><type>Graduate Students</type><email>WalidAbdul-Qader@my.unt.edu</email><phone/><image><img src="/sociology/images/sociology.unt.edu/files/images/faculty/photos/walid.jpg" alt="Walid Abdul-Qader"/></image><office> Sycamore 201D</office><address/><office-hours/><types><type>Graduate Students</type></types><departments><department>Sociology</department></departments><main-content>Education

B.S., Sociology (2025)
 
Master’s Thesis Title

"The Digital Divide and Wage Inequality: How Internet Access Shaped Earnings Before and After COVID-19."
 
Research Interests

Walid is interested in studying poverty and the structural barriers that limit social mobility. His current research examines the relationship between internet access and income, with an emphasis on how this relationship has changed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.</main-content></item>