Study Investigators

Charlie Brown, Co-Director and PI, is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Economics, University of Michigan. He is an empirically-oriented labor economist whose research has focused on compensating differentials, minimum wage laws, employer size and labor market outcomes, and measurement error in survey data. Bob Schoeni, Co-Director and PI, is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Dr. Schoeni’s research focuses on welfare and poverty, economic and demographic aspects of aging, socioeconomic disparities in health, and labor economics.
   
Vicki Freedman, Co-PI, is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Freedman is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on population health and aging, disability, time use, and long-term care. Dr. Freedman currently serves as co-PI to the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Katherine McGonagle, Assistant Director and Co-PI, is Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Dr. McGonagle is a social psychologist with research interests in the areas of survey research methods, health, and well-being. In collaboration with Schoeni, McGonagle manages the daily operations of the study.
   
Fabian Pfeffer, is a Faculty Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Pfeffer is a sociologist whose research focuses on socio-econonomic inequality, intergenerational mobility, education, wealth dynamics, and cross-national comparisons. Narayan Sastry, Co-PI, is a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Sastry's research interests center on social and spatial dimensions of health, development, and well-being of children and adolescents. He is the Co-Director of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey and is the Director of the Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey.
   
Frank Stafford, Co-PI, is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Dr. Stafford’s current research interests include household saving and wealth accumulation, human capital formation, time use, and the impact of monetary policy on household spending and portfolio adjustment. Jacque Eccles, Co-PI, is Wilbert McKeachie Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Women's Studies and Education and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan. She conducts research on topics including gender-role socialization, teacher expectancies, student motivation, and child social development.
   
Bob Wallace, Co-PI, is Irene Ensminger Stecher Professor of Epidemiology and Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Colleges of Public Health and Medicine, and Director of the University’s Center on Aging. He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine, and he studies clinical and population epidemiology with a focus on the causes and prevention of disabling conditions among older persons. Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Co-PI , is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore and Adjunct Research Professor at University of Michigan. Her major research interests are in the areas of family and children, poverty and inequality, demography, research methods, and public policies.


External Board of Overseers

Nick Buck
Deputy Director ISER
Director ULSC
University of Essex 		William A.V. Clark
Department of Geography
University of California, Los Angeles 		Karen Dynan, Board Chair
Economic Studies
Brookings Institution
David S. Johnson
Chief, Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division U.S. Census Bureau 		Ariel Kalil
Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
University of Chicago 		Arie Kapteyn
Director Labor and Population
RAND
Wendy Manning
Director, Center for Family and Demographic Research
Department of Sociology
Bowling Green State University 		Colm O'Muircheartaigh
Dean & Professor, Harris School
University of Chicago 		Kathleen McGarry
Department of Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
David Ribar
Department of Economics
University of North Carolina, Greensboro 		James P. Ziliak
Center for Poverty Research
University of Kentucky


Past Board Members

Abraham, Katharine (Chair, 09-10) Folsom, Ralph Newhouse, Joseph
Altonji, Joseph Griliches, Zvi Orcutt, Guy
Ashenfelter, Orley Grossman, Michael Presser, Harriet
Bane, Mary Jo (Chair, 83-87) Hayward, Mark Quigley, John
Barnow, Burt Heckman, James Rainwater, Lee
Bianchi, Suzanne (Chair, 06-09) Hotz, V. Joseph (Chair, 02-06) Sandefur, Gary
Biemer, Paul Hout, Michael Sawhill, Isabel
Blau, David Jencks, Christopher Skinner, Jonathan
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne Kalleberg, Arne Smeeding, Tim
Bumpass, Larry Kalton, Graham Smith, James P. (Chair, 98-00)
Burkhauser, Richard (Chair, 00-02) Kasprzyk, Daniel Sorensen, Aage
Butz, William Krueger, Alan Tienda, Marta
Card, David Kulka, Richard Tuma, Nancy (Chair, 90-94)
Casper, Lynne Lillard, Lee (Chair, 87-90) Waite, Linda
Chamberlain, Gary Little, Roderick Weiss, Carol
Cherlin, Andrew Manski, Charles (Chair, 94-98) Welch, Finis
Crimmins, Eileen Marmot, Michael Willis, Robert
Deaton, Angus McFadden, Daniel Wise, David
DiPrete, Thomas McLanahan, Sara Wolpin, Kenneth
Elder, Glen Michael, Robert Wu, Lawrence
Ellwood , David Moen, Phyllis Zeldes, Stephen
Featherman, David Moffitt, Robert
Flavin, Marjorie Mullan-Harris, Kathleen