Organization and Staff

The Center is is led by Michael Rendall, Director. It is housed in RAND Labor and Population. The Center has helped RAND attract and retain a community of population scholars, including junior researchers of exceptional promise and senior researchers with national and international reputations in their fields. Many staff members serve on national advisory councils, including the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Their work appears in journals such as the American Economic Review, American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Econometrica, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economics and Statistics.

The Center's research efforts are coordinated and supported by an Administrative Core, Data Management and Computing Core, and a Seed Grants Program.

Core Staff

Michael Rendall

Arie Kapteyn
Narayan Sastry
Jacob Klerman
Megan Beckett
Claude Berrebi
Chloe Bird
Ashlesha Datar
Julie DaVanzo
Adeline Delavande
Brian Finch
Dana Goldman
Michael Hurd
Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Benjamin Karney
Darius Lakdawalla
David Loughran
Nicole Maestas
Susann Rohwedder
James P. Smith
John Strauss
Arthur van Soest
Neeraj Sood
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
Julie Zissimopoulos