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Frank P. Stafford
Affiliated Programs:
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) (NIA)
Funded Research:
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)
Continuity and Change in American Economic and Social Life: The PSID 07-11 (12-16 Supplement) (NSF)
Disability, Time Use, and Wellbeing Among Older Adults (NIA)
Health, Wealth, and Wellbeing over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)
Philanthropy Supplement - 2008 Data Collection (Wave 36) (Indiana University)
Health, Wealth, and Pensions Over the Life Course in a Long Panel (NIA)
Economic Status, Health, and Well-Being Over the Life Course and Across Generations (NIA)
Disability, Time Use, and Well-Being Among Middle Aged and Older Married Couples (Survey Research Center)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Professor, Economics Department.
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Active research areas include issues of time allocation, the economics of childcare, and cross-national comparative studies on the role of information technology. Other research interests include family decisions about wealth, pensions, and savings as they relate to individual mental and physical health through time.
Recent Publications
Books
Belli, R., Frank P. Stafford, and Duane Alwin. 2009. Calendar and time diary : methods in life course research. Los Angeles: Sage.
Journal Articles
Freedman, Vicki, Frank P. Stafford, Norbert Schwarz, and Frederick G. Conrad. Forthcoming. "Measuring Time Use of Older Couples: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics." Field Methods. NIHMSID: NIHMS439349. DOI.
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, Frank P. Stafford, Frederick G. Conrad, Norbert Schwarz, and Jennifer Cornman. 2012. "Assessing Time Diary Quality for Older Couples: An Analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics’ Disability and Use of Time (DUST) Supplement." Annals of Economics and Statistics , 105/106: 271-289. PMCID: PMC3613756. Abstract.
Freedman, Vicki, Frank P. Stafford, Norbert Schwarz, Frederick G. Conrad, and Jennifer C. Cornman. 2012. "Disability, participation, and subjective wellbeing among older couples." Social Science & Medicine, 74(4): 588-596. PMCID: PMC3371257. DOI. Abstract.
Gouskova, Elena, Ngina Chiteji, and Frank P. Stafford. 2010. "Pension Participation: Do Parents Transmit Time Preference?" Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 31(2): 138-150. DOI. Abstract.
Gouskova, E., N. Chiteji, and Frank P. Stafford. 2010. "Estimating the intergenerational persistence of lifetime earnings with life course matching: Evidence from the PSID." Labour Economics, 17(3): 592-597. DOI. Abstract.
Stafford, Frank P. 2009. "Emerging Modes of Timeline Data Collection: Event History Calendar Time Diary and Methods." Social Indicators Research, 93(1): 69-76. DOI.
Grafova, Irina B., and Frank P. Stafford. 2009. "The Wage effects of personal smoking history." Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 26(3): 381-393. Abstract.
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. Abstract.