The Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS) is a consortium based at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) IRIS is designed to transform the successful Universities: Measuring the Impacts of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Science (UMETRICS) initiative developed by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation into a permanent national resource… Continue reading Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS)
Research Theme: Economic Behavior
Surveys of Consumers
The Surveys of Consumers measure consumer expectations to capture the impact of the expectations of consumers on their spending and saving behavior. The U.S. Department of Commerce selected the consumer expectations index as a component of the Index of Leading Economic Indicators due to its ability to predict future changes in the economy. The data… Continue reading Surveys of Consumers
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world’s longest running household panel survey. With five decades of data collected on the same families and their descendants, the PSID is a cornerstone of the data infrastructure for empirically-based social science research in the U.S. and the world. With its long-term measures of economic and… Continue reading Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)