Robert Bozick
Education
Overview
Biography
Robert Bozick is a social scientist based in RAND's Santa Monica office and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research focuses on the linkages between school and work over the life course; youth employment and youth labor markets; inequality in higher education, and the transition to adulthood for disadvantaged populations. Bozick has over ten years of experience developing and testing survey instruments, analyzing complex survey data, and using longitudinal data to address issues in public policy, education, and youth development. Currently at RAND, he is the principal investigator on a Spencer Foundation-funded grant to study college enrollment among undocumented immigrants in the United States. Additionally, he is a coprincipal investigator on a National Science Foundation funded grant to study how applied engineering and computer science courses prepare non-college bound youth for the labor market and he is a coprincipal investigator on a national evaluation of correctional education for the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Prior to RAND, Bozick was a senior research scientist at the Academy for Educational Development where he was the principal investigator for an evaluation of the Gaining Early Awareness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) for the Pennsylvania State Department of Education and a research scientist at RTI International where he was the principal investigator on a multi-method study of career and technical education for the U.S. Department of Education.
Research Focus
Selected Publications
Dalton, Ben and Robert Bozick "Adding College-Ready Coursework to a Career-Ready Pathway: Implications for Dropping Out of High School," in Smerdon, Becky and Kathryn Borman, Pressing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America's High Schools, Information Age Publishing, 2011 (forthcoming)
Bozick, Robert and Stefanie DeLuca, "The Decision Not to Go to College: School, Work, and Opportunities in the Lives of American Youth," Social Science Research, 4(1249):1262, 2011
Bozick, Robert, Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, Susan Dauber, and Kerri Kerr, "Framing the Future: Revisiting the Role of Educational Expectations in Status Attainment," Social Forces, 88:2027-2052, 2010
Bozick, Robert, "Job Opportunities, Economic Resources, and the Postsecondary Destinations of American Youth," Demography, 46:493-512, 2009
Bozick, Robert "College Enrollment," in Crosnoe, Robert, Mary Elizabeth Hughes, and Amy Pienta, Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Gale Publishing, 2008
Alexander, Karl, Robert Bozick, and Doris Entwisle, "Warming Up, Cooling Out, or Holding Steady?: Persistence and Change in Educational Expectations over the Years after High School," Sociology of Education, 81:371-396, 2008
Bozick, Robert, "Making It Through the First Year of College: The Role of Students' Economic Resources, Employment, and Living Arrangements," Sociology of Education, 80:261-285, 2007
Bozick, Robert and Stefanie DeLuca, "Better Late Than Never? Delayed Enrollment in the High School to College Transition," Social Forces, 84:527-550., 2005
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