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John Bound
Affiliated Programs:
Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (NIA)
Funded Research:
Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy Using HRS (NIA)
Exploring the Import of Health-Related Residential Mobility to Local Area Studies (NICHD)
Federal Stimulus Funding for Research: An Assessment of Employment Responses (NSF)
Health and Retirement Study Yrs 23-28 (NIA)
High-Skill Immigration: Educational Attainment and Labor Force Outcomes (Sloan)
Modeling how US labor market for scientists and engineers responds to immigration. (Sloan)
Modeling the Effect of Health on Retirement (NIA)
Modeling the Impact of Health Insurance on Retirement (Coverage Research Initiative) (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Pathways to Adjustment in Science and Engineering Labor Markets (Sloan)
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)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center.
Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center.
Professor, Economics.
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
Geronimus, Arline T., John Bound, and Cynthia Colen. 2011. "Excess black mortality in the United States and in select black or white high-poverty areas, 1980-2000." American Journal of Public Health, 101(4): 720-729. PMCID: PMC3052342. DOI. Abstract.
Bound, John, Michael Lovenheim, and Sarah Turner. 2010. "Why Have College Completion Rates Declined? An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2: 129-57. PMCID: PMC3140225. DOI.
Bound, John, Todd R. Stinebrickner, and Timothy A. Waidmann. 2010. "Health, economic resources and the work decisions of older men." Journal of Econometrics, 156(1): 106-129. DOI.
Bound, John, Brad Hershbein, and Bridget Terry Long. 2009. "Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(4): 119-146. PMCID: PMC3046867. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Bound, John, and Sarah E. Turner. 2007. "Cohort crowding: How resources affect collegiate attainment." Journal of Public Economics, 91(5-6): 877-899. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Geronimus, Arline T., Danya Keene, Margaret Hicken, and John Bound. 2007. "Black -White Differences in Age Trajectories of Hypertension Prevalence among Adult Women and Men, 1999-2002." Ethnicity and Disease, 17(1): 40-48. Abstract. Licensed Access.
Chapters
Bound, John, Sarah E. Turner, and Patrick M. Walsh. 2009. "Internationalization of U.S. doctorate education." In Science and engineering careers in the United States: an analysis of markets and employment edited by Richard B Freeman, Daniel L Goroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Blanchard, E., John Bound, and Sarah E. Turner. 2009. "Opening (and Closing) Doors: Country-Specific Shocks in U.S. Doctoral Education." In Doctoral education and the faculty of the future edited by Ehrenberg, Ronald G., Kuh, Charlotte V.. :224-248. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
PSC Reports
Bound, John, Michael Lovenheim, and Sarah E. Turner. 2010. "Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States." PSC Research Report No. 10-698. April 2010. Abstract. PDF.
Bound, John, Sarah E. Turner, and Patrick Walsh. 2009. "Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education." PSC Research Report No. 09-675. March 2009. Abstract. PDF.