Frank P. Stafford, Director of the PSID, is Senior Research Scientist at the Survey Research Center and Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan. His research experience includes comparative work with microdata studying labor supply, child care, and on-the-job training. His current research interests include household saving and human capital formation, time use, international technology flows, and the impact of monetary policy on household spending and portfolio adjustment.
Robert F. Schoeni, Associate Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the PSID, is a Senior Associate Research Scientist at the U-M Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center and Associate 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, and labor economics, and demography. His research topics include analyses of trends in disability, living arrangements among the elderly, intergenerational familial transfers, old-age poverty, welfare reform, workers’ compensation, and displaced workers.
Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Co-Principal Investigator of the PSID-Child Development Supplement, is the Wilbert McKeachie Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Women's Studies and Education and Research Scientist at both the Research Center for Group Dynamics in ISR and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is currently president-elect of the Society for Research on Adolescence. She has conducted research on topics ranging from gender-role socialization, teacher expectancies, and classroom influences on student motivation to social development in the family and school context. Her most recent work focuses on the longitudinal study of the development and socialization of the following types of psychological influences on motivation, activity choice and involvement: self-perceptions of competence, task values and interests, life goals, self-schema, motivational orientation, and mental health.
Katherine McGonagle is the Assistant Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the PSID at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Since 2000, Dr. McGonagle has been responsible for the daily operations of the PSID, including providing day-to-day management and oversight of activities related to data collection, data processing, and dissemination. Dr. McGonagle is a social psychologist who has authored many scientific articles in the areas of health, well-being, and survey methodology.
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is a sociologist and Co-Principal Investigator of the PSID. Dr. Yeung is Research Professor and Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Advanced Social Science Research in the Department of Sociology at New York University. Her major research interests are in the areas of family and children, poverty and inequality, demography, research methods, and public policies.