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Robert F. Schoeni

Affiliated Programs:

Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging

TRENDS - Evaluating Old-Age Disability and Health Trends

Funded Research:

Children in Transition to Adulthood: Family and Siblings Connections (NICHD)

Continuity and Change in American and Social Life: (USDA pass through) (NSF)

Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) 2007 2011 (NSF)

Cyclical, Intergenerational and Life Course Measures of Economics and Social Behavior: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (NSF)

Cyclical, Intergenerational, and Life Course Measure and Social Behavior: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (NSF)

Economic Status, Health, and Well-Being Over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)

Health and Society Scholars Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Health Effects on Nonhealth Policy (Russell Sage Foundation)

Health, Wealth, and Pensions Over the Life Course in a Long Panel (NIA)

Late-Life Health Trends: Disparities and Causes (NIA)

Life Course Wealth, Health and Mortality in the PSID (NIA)

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)

Neighborhoods and the Health of Elderly Americans (RAND)

NSF Collaborative Exchange Between Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) (NSF)

NSF SGER: Tracking Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Gulf State Families (NSF)

The Effects of Adaptation on the Health of Immigrants (NIA)

The Shape of Income and Mortality (NIA)

Transitions From Preschool Through High School: Family, Schools and Neighborhoods (NICHD)

U.S. Census Bureau: PSID Conference on the Use of Event History Calendar (US Census)


Research Professor, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Co-Director, Postdoctoral Program, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Professor, G. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Professor, Economics, University of Michigan.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Dr. Schoeni studies labor economics, the family, aging, and welfare policy. Recent studies include the investigation of changes in old-age health status and disability, the effects of welfare reform on various outcomes, the economic consequences of workplace injuries, and poverty among older women. He also serves as Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Recent Publications

Books

Schoeni, Robert F., James S. House, George A. Kaplan, and Harold Pollack. 2008. Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Abstract.

Blank, Rebecca M., Sheldon H. Danziger, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2006. Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Abstract.

Schoeni, Robert F. 2002. Countrywide evaluation of the long-term family self-sufficiency plan. Santa Monica, CA: Rand.

Journal Articles

Martin, Linda G., Vicki A. Freedman, Robert F. Schoeni, and Patricia M. Andreski. 2009. "Health and Functioning Among Baby Boomers Approaching 60." Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 64(3): 369-377. PMCID:PMC2670250. DOI:10.1093/geronb/gbn040. Licensed Access.

Freedman, Vicki, Linda Martin, Robert F. Schoeni, and Jennifer C. Cornman. 2008. "Declines in late-life disability: The role of early- and mid-life factors." Social Science & Medicine, 66(7): 1588-1602. PMCID:PMC2408829. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.037. Licensed Access.

Herd, P., Schoeni, Robert F., and James S. House. 2008. "Upstream solutions: Does the supplemental security income program reduce disability in the elderly?" Milbank Quarterly, 86(1): 5-45. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2007.00512.x. Licensed Access. Worldcat.

Schoeni, Robert F., V.A. Freedman, and L.G. Martin. 2008. "Why is late-life disability declining?" Milbank Quarterly, 86 : 47-89. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2007.00513.x. Licensed Access.

Freedman, V.A., Grafova, I.B., Robert F. Schoeni, and J. Rogowski. 2008. "Neighborhoods and disability in later life." Social Science & Medicine, 66(11): 2253-2267. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.01.013. Licensed Access. Worldcat.

Davis, M.M., K. McGonagle, Robert F. Schoeni, and Frank P. Stafford. 2008. "Grandparental and parental obesity influences on childhood overweight: implications for primary care practice." Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine: JABFM, 21(6): 549-54. DOI:10.3122/jabfm.2008.06.070140. Licensed Access.

Martin, Linda G., Robert F. Schoeni, Vicki A. Freedman, and Patricia Andreski. 2007. "Feeling Better? Trends in General Health Status." Journals of Gerontology: Social Science, 62B(1): S11-21.

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