PSID People

Directors

is Director of PSID and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Dr. Crossley is an economist with interests in economic data, survey methods, and household financial behavior.

Esther Friedman
Associate Director

Esther Friedman

is Associate Director of PSID and Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

Noura Insolera
Assistant Director

Noura Insolera

is Assistant Director of PSID and Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.

Faculty Investigators

Katherine McGonagle
Former Co-Director

Katherine McGonagle

is a PSID Principal Investigator and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

Charlie Brown
Former Director

Charlie Brown

is a PSID co-investigator. Research Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Michigan.

Narayan Sastry
Former Co-Director

Narayan Sastry

is a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

Wei Zhao

is a PSID Co-Investigator and Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, at the University of Michigan.

Sasha Killewald

is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, and the Robert F. Schoeni Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research.

Paula Fomby
External

Paula Fomby

is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Joelle Abramowitz

joined the Survey Research Center in 2016. Her research interests include self-employment and alternative work arrangements, income, health insurance, medical expenditures, time use, marriage, fertility, and general health topics.

Carina Gronlund

is a Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Henning Silber

Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Adjunct Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Social Sciences Program, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Administrative

Jennifer Huntington
Team Leader

Instrument Development & Production Management

Rose McAloon-Fernando
Team Leader

Rose McAloon-Fernando

Data Processing

Flannery Campbell
Team Leader

Application Development

Mohammad Mushtaq
Team Leader

Education Outreach & Data Promotion

Beth Simmert
Team Leader

Beth Simmert

Analysis

Meichu Chen

Courtney Fitzgerald

Malak Kalasho

Brita Lund

Junzhi Sun

Professor Emeritus

Frank Stafford
Former Director

Frank Stafford

is Research Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Michigan.

In Memoriam

Bob Schoeni
Former Director

Bob Schoeni

was a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Dr. Schoeni was a key member of the PSID research team over two decades 2001-2021 as a Co-Director, Principal Investigator, and Co-Investigator.

External Board of Overseers

		Daniel Benjamin Professor Anderson School of Management and the Human Genetics Department at the David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA				Shawn Bushway Professor University of Albany Department of Public Administration & Policy

		Lisa Calderwood Professor of Survey Research Co-Director Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study University College London, Social Research Institute				Michael Davern Executive Vice President of Research NORC at the University of Chicago

		Giovanni Gallipoli Professor Vancouver School of Economics University of British Columbia, Canada				Bob Hummer Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor Carolina Population Center Department of Sociology University of North Carolina

		I-Fen Lin University of Missouri Coleman-Ganong Endowed Professor in Family Structure and Family Process				Raven Molloy Deputy Associate Director Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

		Seth G. Sanders, Board Chair Ronald G. Ehrenberg Professor of Economics Department of Economics Cornell University				Jennifer Van Hook Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography Director, Population Research Institute (PRI) Co-Funded Faculty, Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) Pennsylvania State University

		Jane Waldfogel Compton Foundation Centennial Professor School of Social Work and School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University				Katrina Walsemann University of Maryland Professor; Roger C. Lipitz Distinguished Chair in Health Policy

Past Board Members

Bane, Mary Jo
Lillard, Lee
Tuma, Nancy
Manski, Charles
Smith, James P.
Burkhauser, Richard
Hotz, V. Joseph
Bianchi, Suzanne
Abraham, Katharine
Dynan, Karen
Ziliak, James
Black, Dan
Pence, Karen A.
Carlson, Marcy

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Altonji, Joseph
Ashenfelter, Orley
Barnow, Burt
Biemer, Paul
Blau, David
Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
Buck, Nick
Bumpass, Larry
Butz, William
Card, David
Carr, Deborah
Casper, Lynne
Cesarini, David
Chamberlain, Gary
Charles, Kerwin
Cherlin, Andrew
Clark, William A.V.
Conley, Dalton
Crimmins, Eileen
Crowder, Kyle
Deaton, Angus
DiPrete, Thomas
Elder, Glen
Ellwood , David
Featherman, David
Flavin, Marjorie
Folsom, Ralph
Griliches, Zvi
Grossman, Michael
Hayward, Mark
Heckman, James
Herd, Pamela
Hout, Michael
Jäckle, Annette
Jencks, Christopher
Johnson, David S.
Kalil, Ariel
Kalleberg, Arne
Kalton, Graham
Kapteyn, Arie
Kasprzyk, Daniel
Krueger, Alan
Kulka, Richard
Little, Roderick
Manning, Wendy
Marmot, Michael
McFadden, Daniel
McGarry, Kathleen
McLanahan, Sara
Michael, Robert
Moen, Phyllis
Moffitt, Robert
Mullan-Harris, Kathleen
Newhouse, Joseph
O'Muircheartaigh, Colm
Orcutt, Guy
Page, Marianne
Parrado, Emilio
Pebley, Anne
Pistaferri, Luigi
Presser, Harriet
Quigley, John
Rainwater, Lee
Ribar, David
Sandefur, Gary
Sawhill, Isabel
Schaeffer, Nora Cate
Schupp, Jurgen
Sharkey, Patrick
Skinner, Jonathan
Smeeding, Tim
Sorensen, Aage
Tienda, Marta
Waite, Linda
Weiss, Carol
Welch, Finis
Willis, Robert
Wise, David
Wolf, Doug
Wolpin, Kenneth
Wu, Lawrence
Zeldes, Stephen