James P. Smith (decd)

Research Fellow

RAND

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 Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7782
published in: Journal of Human Capital 2015, Volume 9, Issue 4, pp. 564 - 600
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7536
published in: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 4:46-55, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7535
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing 1-2 (2013) 50–59, November 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6899
published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller. (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, Volume 1A, Chapter 4, pp. 167-195, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6297
published in: Annual Review of Economics 4:57–81, 2012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6296
published in: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96(1):103–118, 2014
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5852
Liam Delaney, Alan Fernihough, James P. Smith
published in: Demography 50(6):2013-2035, 2013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5318
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61(1), 127-156
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5173
forthcoming in D. Wise (ed), Insights in the Economics of Ageing, Chapter 3, University of Chicago Press.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5161
published in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 2(2):101-126, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5152
published in: Journal of Population Ageing 3(3-4):111-142, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4992
published in: Demography 47 (Supplement):S211- S231, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4698
published in: Timothy Smeeding, Robert Erikson, and Markus Jantti (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, Policy and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4548
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 1-10
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4388
published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 269-316, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4274
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 478 - 489
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4269
published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, pp. 209-236, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4036
published in: Demography 46(2):387-403, May 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4015
published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2860
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (3), 575-595
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2539
published in: David Wise (ed.), Developments in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 359-406, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2246
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2057
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 496-509
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1118
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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