About

Robert F. Schoeni was a research professor at the Institute for Social Research and a professor of economics, with a courtesy appointment at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research interests included program evaluation, welfare policy, economics and demographics of aging, labor economics, and immigration. He was the co-investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a national panel survey of families assessing issues of poverty, income, family formation, wealth, and health since 1968. Schoeni previously worked at RAND as associate director of the Labor and Population Program and served as a senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, DC. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. Schoeni's career exemplified a focus on social research and policy analysis, with significant contributions to understanding economic and demographic issues affecting families and aging populations.

Research topics

• Demography
• Economics
• Medicine
• Demographic economics
• Gerontology

Selected publications

• Comparing Estimates of Family Income in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the March Current Population Survey, 1968-2005

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• Panel Study of Income Dynamics Revised Longitudinal Weights 1993-2005

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• Trends in Item Non-Response in the PSID, 1968-2009

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• <p>An Analysis of the Quality of the Health Data in the <span>Panel Study of Income Dynamics</span></p>

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• Generating Nationally Representative Estimates of Multi-Generational Families and Related Statistics for Black Families in the PSID

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• A Modest Upward Distortion in Weighted Estimates for Black Individuals with Children in PSID: 1997–2015

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• Disparities in the Length of Interviews among PSID Respondents

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

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• Mortgage Distress and Financial Liquidity: How U.S. Families are Handling Savings, Mortgages and Other Debts

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• Accurately Measuring the Trend in Poverty in the United States Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

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• The PSID Sample Leaver Tracking Project

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R21HD087881

  NIH · $426k · 2019

• NIH Grant K01AG000670

  NIH · $527k · 2003

• RAND Postdoctoral Training Program in the Study of Aging Renewal

  NIH · $3.0M · 1994–2027

• NIH Grant R01AG019802

  NIH · $12.4M · 2014

• NIH Grant P01AG029409

  NIH · $33.5M · 2018

Frequent coauthors

• Vicki A. Freedman

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  46 shared

• Judith A. Seltzer

  University of California, Los Angeles

  44 shared

• Linda G. Martin

  39 shared

• Emily Wiemers

  National Institute on Drug Abuse

  39 shared

• V. Joseph Hotz

  University of Chicago

  38 shared

• Kenneth M. Langa

  Health Services Research & Development

  31 shared

• Marwa AlFakhri

  RAND Corporation

  29 shared

• Scott Abrahams

  Louisiana State University

  29 shared

Awards & honors

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