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Charles Brown, Co-Director and Principal Investigator of the PSID, is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center and Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Professor Brown is an empirically-oriented labor economist. His past research has focused on topics such as compensating differentials, effects of minimum wage laws and of EEO policies, the determinants of enlistment and re-enlistment in the military, and the relationship between employer size and labor market outcomes. Current work focuses on measurement error in survey data, early-retirement "windows", and consequences of the relatively equal opportunity in the military for children of black soldiers.
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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 Professor at both the Research Center for Group Dynamics in ISR and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. 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. Dr. Eccles’ 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.
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Vicki A. Freedman, Co-Principal Investigator of PSID, is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center. Freedman is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on population health and aging, disability, and long-term care. Past research topics have included analyses of trends in late-life disability, neighborhoods and late-life health, comparing interventions to promote population-level declines in late-life disability, and measurement and use of assistive technology and environmental modifications in later life. Dr. Freedman currently serves as co-PI to the National Health and Aging Trends Study, and she is leading a study of disability, time use and well-being among older couples in the PSID.
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Katherine McGonagle, Assistant Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the PSID, is Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. McGonagle is a social psychologist with research interests in the areas of health, well-being, and survey research methods. Since 2000, Dr. McGonagle has been responsible for the daily operations of the PSID, including providing management and oversight of activities related to data collection, data processing, and dissemination.
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Narayan Sastry is a demographer and Co-Principal Investigator of the PSID. Dr. Sastry is Research Associate Professor in the Population Studies Center and Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and an Adjunct Senior Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Sastry's research interests center on studying the social and spatial dimensions of health, development, and well-being of children and adolescents, both in the United States and in less developed countries. Dr. Sastry is the Co-Director of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) and is the Director of the recently-launched Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey (DNORS) that is being designed to study the long-term demographic effects of Hurricane Katrina on the pre-storm population of New Orleans.
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Robert F. Schoeni, Co-Director and Principal Investigator of the PSID, is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center, 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, and labor economics. 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.
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Frank P. Stafford, Co-Principal Investigator of the PSID, is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, 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. 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.
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Robert B. Wallace, Co-Principal Investigator of the PSID, is Irene Ensminger Stecher Professor of Epidemiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Colleges of Public Health and Medicine, and Director of the University’s Center on Aging. He has been a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and the National Advisory Council on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine, past chair of IOM’s Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, and current chair of IOM’s Board on Select Populations. Dr. Wallace’s research interests are in clinical and population epidemiology, and focus on the causes and prevention of disabling conditions among older persons. He is the site principal investigator for the Women’s Health Initiative, and a Co-Principal Investigator of the Health and Retirement Study.
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Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is a sociologist and Co-Principal Investigator of the PSID. Dr. Yeung is Professor of Sociology in 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.
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