James V. Marrone

Jim Marrone is an associate economist at RAND Corporation. He is an applied microeconomist focusing primarily on labor/human capital and cultural/art markets. His work is both theoretical and empirical, using statistical techniques in novel ways to develop better measurements of empirically important outcomes. Recent examples include the use of remote survey methods to study media programs' impact on support for extremism in developing countries, and the application of machine-learning methods to assess at-risk cultural heritage in disaster and conflict zones. More "bread-and-butter" labor economics projects include analyses of the link between migration and disability insurance, the factors influencing military attrition, the role of language skills in determining immigrants' wages, and the relationship between household financial stability and early-stage dementia. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago.