Robert Bozick is a senior demographer and research scientist at RAND. His research focuses on the effects of economic strain on labor force and education outcomes, with a particular focus on linkages between school, work, and health across the life course. Bozick has over 20 years of experience designing and administering surveys, analyzing survey data, and using longitudinal data to address public policy issues in education, labor, and population. He has particular expertise in the design and analysis of surveys administered to hard-to-study populations. His research has been featured in over 100 news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and NBC News. From 2014 to 2018 Bozick was the associate director of RAND Labor and Population, and from 2020 to 2022 Bozick was a Senior Fellow at Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. He is currently on the editorial board of Population Research and Policy Review.
At present, Bozick is the director of RAND Survey Panels, which operates six probability-based internet panels whose members complete surveys on issues critical to policy makers. As part of this role, he is the Principal Investigator of the American Youth Panel and the American Parents Panel. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the American Youth Panel is a longitudinal panel following a nationally representative sample of approximately 4,000 12-21 year-olds. The American Parents Panel is a complementary longitudinal panel that surveys parents and guardians of 12-17 year-olds who participate in the American Youth Panel.
Ph.D. in sociology, Johns Hopkins University; M.A. in sociology, University of Maryland-College Park; B.A. in sociology, Ohio University
