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Robert F. Schoeni
Affiliated Programs:
TRENDS - Evaluating Old-Age Disability and Health Trends (NIA)
Funded Research:
Psychological Human Capital and Health across the Life Course: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSC Initiatives Fund)
Historical Trends in Parental Financial Support of Young Adults (PSC Initiatives Fund)
Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life: The PSID 2012 - 2016 (NSF)
Economic Status, Health, & Wellbeing over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)
Preserving and Utilizing Historical Data in the PSID (NSF)
Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life: The PSID 07-11 (12-16 Supplement) (NSF)
Wealth after the Great Recession: Who Lost and Who Recovered? (Russell Sage Foundation)
Training in the Demography and Economics of Aging (NIA)
Social Science Training in Population Studies (NICHD)
Intergenerational Family Transfers of Time and Money in the PSID (NIA)
The Transition from Childhood into Adulthood among PSID Children, 2013 and 2015 (NICHD)
Health, Wealth, and Wellbeing over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)
Family Dynamics, Fertility, and Investments in Children Across Generations (NICHD)
Panel Study of Income Dynamics - 2011 Philanthropy Module (Wave 37) (Templeton)
Dynamic Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and its Impact on Child Overweight (Department of Agriculture)
The Shape of Income and Mortality (NIA)
Transitions From Preschool Through High School: Family, Schools and Neighborhoods (NICHD)
Health, Wealth, and Pensions Over the Life Course in a Long Panel (NIA)
Children in Transition to Adulthood: Family and Siblings Connections (NICHD)
Economic Status, Health, and Well-Being Over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center.
Co-Director, Postdoctoral Program, Population Studies Center.
Professor, G. Ford School of Public Policy.
Professor, Economics.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
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 Co-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
Schoeni, Robert F., Frank P. Stafford, Katherine McGonagle, and Patricia Andreski. 2013. "Response Rates in National Panel Surveys." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 645(1): 60-87. PMCID: PMC3555140. DOI.
Freedman, Vicki, Brenda Spillman, Patti Andreski, Jennifer C. Cornman, Eileen Crimmins, Ellen Kramarow, James Lubitz, Linda Martin, Sharon Merkin, Robert F. Schoeni, Teresa Seeman, and Timothy Waidmann. 2013. "Trends in Late-Life Activity Limitations in the United States: An Update from Five National Surveys." Demography, 50(2): 661-671. PMCID: PMC3586750.
Martin, L., Robert F. Schoeni, P. Andreski, and C. Jagger. 2012. "Trends and inequalities in late-life health and functioning in England." Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66(10): 874-80. DOI. Abstract.
Patrick, M., Patrick Wightman, Robert F. Schoeni, and John E. Schulenberg. 2012. "Socioeconomic status and substance use among young adults: a comparison across constructs and drugs." Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 73(5): 772-82. PMCID: PMC3410945. Abstract.
McGonagle, K., Robert F. Schoeni, Narayan Sastry, and Vicki Freedman. 2012. "The Panel Study of Income Dynamics: Overview, Recent Innovations, and Potential for Life Course Research." Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 3(2): 268-284. PMCID: PMC3591471.
Johnson, Rucker C., Robert F. Schoeni, and Jeannette A. Rogowski. 2012. "Health disparities in mid-to-late life: The role of earlier life family and neighborhood socioeconomic conditions." Social Science & Medicine, 74(4): 625-636. NIHMSID: NIHMS345436. DOI. Abstract.
Johnson, Rucker, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2011. "Early-Life Origins of Adult Disease: National Longitudinal Population-Based Study of the United States." American Journal of Public Health, 101(12): 2317-2324. PMCID: PMC3222421. DOI. Abstract.