John Bound

Affiliated Programs:

Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging

Funded Research:

Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy Using HRS (NIA)

Coverage Research Initiative (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Exploring the Import of Health-Related Residential Mobility to Local Area Studies (NICHD)

Higher Education Markets and Labor Markets (University of Virginia)

Housing Choice, Aging, and Fiscal Policy (HUD)

Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging: Coordinating Center Supplement (NIA)

Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging: Reconciling Divergent Evidence on Trends in Old-Age Disability Supplement (NIA)

Michigan Retirement Research Center (SSA)

Modeling the Effect of Health on Retirement (NIA)

Modeling the Impact of Health Insurance on Retirement (Coverage Research Initiative) (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Training in the Demography and Economics of Aging (NIA)

Urban Rural Differences in Excess Mortality Among High Poverty Populations (Coverage Research Initiative) (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Ph.D., Harvard University

Dr. Bound studies economic, demographic, and policy influences on the labor force participation and health status of older people in the United States. His recent research has also included studies on racial differences in earnings, employment, and health and changes in the returns to higher education. His teaching centers on econometrics and labor economics.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Bound, John, Todd R. Stinebrickner, and Timothy A. Waidmann. "Health, economic resources and the work decisions of older men." Journal of Econometrics, . Forthcoming.

Geronimus, Arline T., Danya Keene, Margaret Hicken, and John Bound. "Black -White Differences in Age Trajectories of Hypertension Prevalence among Adult Women and Men, 1999-2002." Ethnicity and Disease, 17 (1): 40-48. 2007.

Bound, John, and Sarah E. Turner. "Cohort crowding: How resources affect collegiate attainment." Journal of Public Economics, 91 (5-6): 877-899. 2007.

Geronimus, Arline T., Margaret Hicken, Danya Keene, and John Bound. ""Weathering" and age-patterns of allostatic load scores among Blacks and Whites in the United States." American Journal of Public Health, 96: 826-833. 2006.

Colen, Cynthia, Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound, and Sherman James. "Maternal Upward Socioeconomic Mobility and Black–White Disparities in Infant Birthweight." American Journal of Public Health, 96 (11): 2032-2039. 2006.

Bound, John, Julianne Cullen, Austin Nichols, and Lucille G. Schmidt. "The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity." Journal of Public Economics, 88 (12): 2487-2514. 2004.

Bound, John, J. Groen, G. Kezdi, and Sarah E. Turner. "Trade in University Training: Cross-State Variation in the Production and Stock of College-Educated Labor." Journal of Econometrics, 121 (1-2): 143-173. 2004.

PSC Reports

Bound, John, Todd R. Stinebrickner, and Timothy A. Waidmann. "Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men." PSC Research Report No. 07-630. November 2007.

Bound, John, Michael Lovenheim, and Sarah E. Turner. "Understanding the Decrease in College Completion Rates and the Increased Time to the Baccalaureate Degree." PSC Research Report No. 07-626. November 2007.

Bound, John, and Sarah E. Turner. "Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment." PSC Research Report No. 04-557. April 2004.

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