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James P. Smith (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972) holds the RAND Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies and was the Director of RAND's Labor and Population Studies Program from 1977-1994. He 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, and the interrelation of health and economic status among the elderly. He has also worked on a wide range of other projects, including analyses of wrongful death cases, the labor supply effects of income maintenance programs, the market for college graduates, and economic development in Southeast Asia. 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 of particular relevance to immigration.
Dr. Smith was the Chair of the Panel on Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration (1995-1997), Committee on Population and Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Sciences. The Panel was convened to examine the interconnections of immigration, population, and the economy, and to provide evidence about the impact of immigration. Dr. Smith has served on the National Advisory Board for the Poverty Institute and on the Population Research Committee at the National Institutes of Health. He chaired the National Institute on Aging's Ad Hoc Advisory Panel on NIA's Extramural Priorities for Data Collection in Health and Retirement Economics and currently serves on the NIA Data Monitoring Committee for both the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest-Old (AHEAD).
Smith has written a number of papers on the quality of asset data in both HRS and AHEAD and racial and ethnic differences in personal net worth, Social Security, and pension wealth. He is a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); and was the public representative appointed by the Governor on the California OSHA Board. He has received the National Institutes of Health MERIT Award, the most distinguished honor NIH grants to a researcher.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2004.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America
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James Banks
James P. Smith
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International Comparisons in Health Economics: Evidence from Aging Studies
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| 6296 |
Iris Kesternich
Bettina Siflinger
James P. Smith
Joachim K. Winter
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The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe
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| 5852 |
Liam Delaney
Alan Fernihough
James P. Smith
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Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England
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| 5318 |
James P. Smith
Yan Shen
John Strauss
Yang Zhe
Yaohui Zhao
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The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
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| 5173 |
James Banks
Richard Blundell
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
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House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder
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| 5168 |
James Banks
Richard Blundell
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
(published in: Economica, 2011, [Early View]) |
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James Banks
Alastair Muriel
James P. Smith
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Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS
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| 5152 |
John Strauss
Xiaoyan Lei
Albert Park
Yan Shen
James P. Smith
Zhe Yang
Yaohui Zhao
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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot
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| 4992 |
James Banks
Alastair Muriel
James P. Smith
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Disease Prevalence, Disease Incidence, and Mortality in the United States and in England
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| 4698 |
Julie Zissimopoulos
James P. Smith
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Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time
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| 4548 |
Liam Delaney
Mark McGovern
James P. Smith
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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 1-10) |
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Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
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The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 478 - 489) |
| 4269 |
John J. McArdle
James P. Smith
Robert Willis
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Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey
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Re-Constructing Childhood Health Histories
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Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
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Life Satisfaction
(published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104) |
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Guillermina Jasso
Douglas S. Massey
Mark R. Rosenzweig
James P. Smith
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From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States
(published in: International Migration Review, 2008, 42 (4), 803-843) |
| 2860 |
Arthur van Soest
Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
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Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (3), 575-595) |
| 2539 |
James Banks
Michael Marmot
Zoë Oldfield
James P. Smith
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The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic
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Arie Kapteyn
Pierre-Carl Michaud
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
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Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study
(published as 'Temporary and permanent unit non-response in follow-up interviews of the Health and Retirement Study' in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2011, 2 (2), 145 - 169) |
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Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
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Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 496-509) |
| 1118 |
James Banks
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
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International Comparisons of Work Disability
(published in: David Cutler and David Wise (eds.), Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 251-294) |
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