Michael Ma is a Ph.D. student at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. His research interests include family economics, demographic changes, housing, pension and retirement saving, computational economics, econometric modeling. He has an M.A. in applied demography and an M.P.P. from the University of California, Irvine.
Prior to joining RAND, he was a data scientist at the San Diego Metropolitan Planning Organization (SANDAG), where he worked on demographic modeling and forecasting aimed at supporting regional policymaking. His responsibilities included developing a new demographic forecast model for the San Diego metropolitan region, estimating annual subregional socioeconomic data, and managing socioeconomic data request from public agencies and private sectors.
M.A. in applied demography, University of California-Irvine; M.P.P. in public policy analysis, University of California-Irvine
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