1. Study Investigators

Charlie Brown is Director of PSID and 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.
 
Vicki Freedman is Associate Director of PSID and 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.
 
Narayan Sastry is Associate Director of PSID and 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.
 
Katherine McGonagle is Assistant Director of PSID and an 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. McGonagle manages the daily operations of the study in collaboration with Brown, Freedman, and Sastry.
 
Fabian Pfeffer is Co-Investigator of PSID and 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.
 
Bob Schoeni is Co-Investigator of PSID and 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.
 
Frank Stafford is Co-Investigator of PSID and 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.


2. Affiliated Investigators

Suzanne Bianchi is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Dorothy Meier Chair in Social Equities at the University of California, Los Angeles.
 
Jacque Eccles is Wilbert McKeachie Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Professor of 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.
 
James P. Smith is Senior Economist and the Distinguished Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies at the RAND Corporation.
 
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore and Adjunct Research Professor at University of Michigan.


3. External Board of Overseers

Karen Dynan, Board Chair
Director & Vice-President, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution.
David S. Johnson
Chief, Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division U.S. Census Bureau.
Ariel Kalil
Director & Professor, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.
 
Arie Kapteyn
Director & Senior Economist, Labor and Population Studies, RAND.
Wendy Manning
Director & Professor, Center for Family and Demographic Research, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University.
Kathleen McGarry
Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles.
 
David Ribar
Professor, Department of Economics, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Jürgen Schupp
Professor & Dean, DIW Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research, Berlin, Germany.
James P. Ziliak
Director & Chair, Center for Poverty Research, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky.
 
Dan Black
Deputy Dean & Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.
Dalton Conley
University Professor in Sociology, School of Medicine, and Wagner School of Public Service, New York University.
Marianne Page
Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis.


4. Past Board Members

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