Staff Profiles
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James P. SmithSanta Monica Office Senior Economist; RAND Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies EducationPh.D. in economics, University of Chicago; B.S. in economics, Fordham University |
Research Focus
Employment and wage trends in labor market; poverty, racial, sex, and ethnic labor market outcomes; demography of the United States; compensation in litigation; demography and economic position of older Americans; savings; wealth; health; immigration
RAND Research Areas
Recent Projects
- Principal Investigator of the New Immigrant Survey
- Intergenerational Financial Transfers
- Housing Price Risk, Home Ownership, and Wealth
- Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and England
- Economic Status, Health and Well-Being over the Life Course and Across Generations
Selected Publications
James P. Smith, "The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes", The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming), 2008
James P. Smith, "Nature and Causes of Trends in Male Diabetes Prevalence, Undiagnosed Diabetes, and the Socioeconomic Status Health Gradient", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(33) 13225-1323, 2007
James P. Smith, "The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health over the Life-Course", Journal of Human Resources, 42(4) 739-764, 2007
James P. Smith, A. Kapteyn and A. vanSoest, "Vignettes and Self-Reported Work Disability in the US and The Netherlands", American Economic Review, 97(1) 461-473, 2007
James P. Smith, "Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England", Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 295(17) 2037-2045, 2006
James P. Smith, "Immigrants and the Labor Market", Journal of Labor Economics, 24(2) 203-233, 2006
James P. Smith and F.T. Juster, "The Decline in Household Saving and the Wealth Effect", The Review of Economics and Statistics, 88(1) 20-27, 2006
James P. Smith and D. Goldman, "Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies", American Economic Review, 95(3) 234-237, 2005
James P. Smith, "Assimilation Across the Latino Generations", American Economic Review, 93(2) 315-319, 2003
James P. Smith and Guillermina Jasso, "The New Immigrant Pilot Survey (NIS-P): Overview and New Findings About U.S. Immigrants at Admission", Demography, 37(1) 127-138, 2000
Research Focus
Economics; immigration; economics of aging; wealth accumulation and savings behavior; the interrelation of health and economic status
RAND Research Areas
Recent Projects
- Principal Investigator for The New Immigrant Survey, a cost-effective survey that yields adequate sample size of the foreign-born, has known sampling properties, permits longitudinal analyses, and can answer policy questions of particular relevance to imm
- Intergenerational financial transfers; health and economic status
- Housing price risk
- Home ownership and wealth
- Comparisons between the United States and other countries
Selected Publications
James P. Smith, "The Impact of Social Economic Status on Health over the Life-Course", Journal of Human Resources, 42(4) 739-764, 2007
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, and Arthur van Soest, "Vignettes and Self-Reported Work Disability in the US and The Netherlands", American Economic Review, 97(1) 461-473, 2007
James Banks, Michael Marmot, Zoe Oldfield, James P. Smith, "Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England", JAMA (also response to letters from readers, JAMA), 295(16) 1-9, 2006
James P. Smith, "Immigrants and the Labor Market", Journal of Labor Economics, 24(2) 203-233, 2006
Dana Goldman and James P. Smith, "Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies", American Economic Review, 95(2) 234-237, 2005
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