Margaret Levenstein is Director of ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Founded in 1962, ICPSR is the largest curated social science data archive in the world and a recipient of a 2019 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. Margaret Levenstein is Professor in the School of Information, Research Professor in the… Continue reading Maggie Levenstein
Research Theme: Economics
VanEseltine,Matthew
Matt VanEseltine is a research area specialist with the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS), part of the Innovation, Networks, and Knowledge (INK) at the Survey Research Center. Prior to joining IRIS, he served as a research manager in the Population Studies Center (PSC), and a research associate at ICPSR. He earned his… Continue reading VanEseltine,Matthew
Shapiro,Matthew D
Dr. Shapiro is a macroeconomist who has carried out research on business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, consumption and saving, financial decision-making, economics of aging, and economic measurement. His current research includes using naturally-occurring data, also known as big data, for studying economic outcomes. This work uses checking and credit card accounts to estimate how… Continue reading Shapiro,Matthew D
Curtin,Richard T
Richard Curtin is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research Center. He was the director of the consumer sentiment surveys from 1976 to 2022, issuing more than 1,500 reports on how consumer expectations influence the macroeconomy. These reports earned a high credibility among domestic and international users, including central banks,… Continue reading Curtin,Richard T
Fomby,Paula
Dr. Fomby’s research focuses on family structure change, family complexity, and child well-being. Her perspective considers families as embedded in broader social contexts and considers how extended kin relationships, neighborhood and community cohesion, and school quality condition the ways children experience family change. Broadly, her work emphasizes the causes and consequences of residing in specific… Continue reading Fomby,Paula
Brown,Charles C
Dr. 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, the relationship between employer size and labor market outcomes, and measurement error in survey data. Current work focuses on… Continue reading Brown,Charles C
A Census-Enhanced Health and Retirement Study: Enhancing an HRS Dataset with Characteristics of Employers
The Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan, in cooperation with the U.S. Census Bureau and Cornell University, proposes to link the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to economic, business, and employment data from the Census Bureau. The HRS surveys more than 22,000 Americans over the age of 50 every two years. It is… Continue reading A Census-Enhanced Health and Retirement Study: Enhancing an HRS Dataset with Characteristics of Employers
Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS)
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)
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)