Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy

About the Authors

About the Authors ROBERT F. SCHOENI is professor of public policy and economics, and research professor at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan. JAMES S. HOUSE is Angus Campbell Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Survey Research, professor of public policy, and research professor in the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. GEORGE A. KAPLAN is the Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor of Public Health, director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, a research professor at the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. HAROLD POLLACK is associate professor of social service administration and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago. MARIANNE P. BITLER is assistant professor of economics at the University of California , Irvine, and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN is Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development at Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. SARAH A. BURGARD is assistant professor of sociology and epidemiology and assistant research professor, Population Studies Center, at the University of Michigan. JANET CURRIE is professor of economics and chair of the Department of Economics at Columbia University. DAVID M. CUTLER is Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. REBECCA C. FAUTH is senior researcher at The Work Foundation in London and a research affiliate at the National Center for Children and Families, Columbia University . / vii IRV GARFINKEL is Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems at the School of Social Work and the co-director of the Center for Research on Population , Health, and Society, Columbia University. BEN B. HANSEN is assistant professor of statistics and faculty associate, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. PAMELA HERD is assistant professor of public affairs and sociology, and research associate at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. HILARY W. HOYNES is professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, and a co-editor of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. DANIEL P. KEATING is research professor and director of the Center for Human Growth and Development, professor of psychology, psychiatry, and pediatrics and faculty associate of the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, and fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research . JEAN KNAB is the director of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and a research associate at the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University . ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY is assistant professor of economics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. SARA MCLANAHAN is William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and directs the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. JEFFREY D. MORENOFF is associate professor of sociology and research associate professor at the Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. ENRICO MORETTI is associate professor of economics at the University of California , Berkeley, where he holds the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Chair in Labor Economics. THERESA L. OSYPUK is assistant professor of epidemiology at Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences. RICHARD H. PRICE is Barger Family Professor of Organizational Studies and research professor in the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. About the Authors viii / NALINI RANJIT is a research investigator at the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ANA V. DIEZ ROUX is professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan. CHRISTOPHER J. RUHM is Jefferson-Pilot Excellence Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. SHARON Z. SIMONTON is a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. About the Authors / ix ...