Biography

James P. Smith (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972) has led numerous projects, including studies of immigration, the economics of aging, black-white wages and employment, the effects of economic development on labor markets, wealth accumulation and savings behavior, the interrelation of health and economic status, and the effects of attrition and nonresponse in the HRS. He is currently 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 relevant to immigration. Smith chaired the Panel on Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration (1995-1997), the Committee on Population and the Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Sciences. Illustrative pertinent papers within the past ten years include “Attrition and Follow-Up in the Indonesia Family Life Survey” and “Enhancing the Quality of Data on Income: Recent Innovations from the HRS” in the Journal of Human Resources; “Measurement of Late-Life Income and Wealth” in the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics; and “Trends and Projections in Income Replacement During Retirement” in the Journal of Labor Economics. He has been an invited speaker before the President's Initiative on Race in Phoenix, the Federal Reserve Board of Los Angeles, and the Prime Minister and members of Parliament of New Zealand, among many others. He has twice received the National Institutes of Health Merit Award, the most distinguished honor NIH grants to a researcher.

Biography

James P. Smith (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972) has led numerous projects, including studies of immigration, the economics of aging, black-white wages and employment, the effects of economic development on labor markets, wealth accumulation and savings behavior, the interrelation of health and economic status, and the effects of attrition and nonresponse in the HRS. He is currently 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 relevant to immigration. Smith chaired the Panel on Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration (1995-1997),the Committee on Population and the Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Sciences. Illustrative pertinent papers within the past ten years include “Attrition and Follow-Up in the Indonesia Family Life Survey” and “Enhancing the Quality of Data on Income: Recent Innovations from the HRS” in the Journal of Human Resources; “Measurement of Late-Life Income and Wealth” in the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics; and “Trends and Projections in Income Replacement During Retirement” in the Journal of Labor Economics. He has been an invited speaker before the President's Initiative on Race in Phoenix, the Federal Reserve Board of Los Angeles, and the Prime Minister and members of Parliament of New Zealand, among many others. He has twice received the National Institutes of Health Merit Award, the most distinguished honor NIH grants to a researcher.

Biography

Jim Smith is currently 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 immigration. He has been an invited speaker before the President's Initiative on Race in Phoenix, the Federal Reserve Board of Los Angeles, and the Prime Minister and members of Parliament of New Zealand, among many others. Smith has twice received the National Institutes of Health Merit Award, the most distinguished honor NIH grants to a researcher.