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
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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
Webster,Noah J
Noah J. Webster, Ph.D. is an Research Associate Professor in the Life Course Development Program at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Dr. Webster’s research focuses on the interrelated themes of: 1) the bidirectional influences of health, health-related behaviors and social relationships; and 2) the role of environmental and social contexts in shaping… Continue reading Webster,Noah J
Heeringa,Steven G
Steven G. Heeringa is Research Scientist Emeritus at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). He is a member of the Faculty of the University of Michigan Program in Survey Methods and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and elected member of the International… Continue reading Heeringa,Steven G
Ryan,Lindsay H
Lindsay Ryan is an Associate Research Scientist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 from the Pennsylvania State University in Human Development and Family Studies. Dr. Ryan is an investigator on several ongoing research projects, all of which involve an interest in better measuring and understanding the… Continue reading Ryan,Lindsay H
Monk,Christopher Stephen
Christopher Monk uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to examine affective and cognitive processing during adolescent development. In particular, his research focuses on how behavioral and brain-based responses vary with age in normally developing youth as well as those with or at risk for psychopathology, such as anxiety, depression and autism. The ultimate goal of this… Continue reading Monk,Christopher Stephen
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
Transitions from Preschool through High School: Family, Schools & Neighborhoods
This project will continue the collection of data on children in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) that is currently funded under NICHD Grant R01HD52646. The existing grant supported the PSID Child Development Supplement, which followed a cohort of children in PSID families who were 0?12 years of age in 1997 through three waves… Continue reading Transitions from Preschool through High School: Family, Schools & Neighborhoods
Causal Mechanisms for Sustainable Adaptation to Adverse Heat and Precipitation Health Effects
Wide socioeconomic disparities exist in heat-associated morbidity and mortality. Working with local officials and community leaders to understand the housing and health characteristics that increase vulnerability to heat-associated health effects will help identify optimal and sustainable alternatives to air conditioning for adapting to increasing extreme-heat events.
Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC)
The Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC) promotes high quality research on retirement, disability, and Social Security policy; communicates findings to the policy community and the public; enhances access to relevant research data; and helps to train new scholars. MRDRC serves the public and policy community as an authoritative source of information on a… Continue reading Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC)