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Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of
Pane] Members and Staff
GRAHAM KALTON (Chair) is senior statistician and vice president of
Westat, Inc., in Rockville, Maryland. Previously he was research scientist
in the Survey Research Center and professor of biostatistics at the Univer-
sity of Michigan. Prior to that he was professor of social statistics at the
University of Southampton and reader in social statistics at the London
School of Economics. His research interests are in survey sampling and
general survey methodology. He received a B.Sc. degree in economics and
an M.Sc. degree in statistics from the University of London and a Ph.D.
degree in survey methodology from the University of Southampton. He is a
fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science and is the current president of the
International Association of Survey Statisticians. He has been a member of
the Committee on National Statistics; served as a member of its Panel to
Evaluate the National Center for Education Statistics and of the Panel on
the National Health Care Survey; and was the chair of the Panel to Study
the NSF Scientific and Technical Personnel Data System.
PAUL P. BIEMER is principal scientist and manager of the Survey Method-
ology Staff at Research Triangle Institute in Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina. Before joining RTI in 1991, he was chair of the Department of
Experimental Statistics and director of the University Statistics Center at
New Mexico State University. Prior to that, Biemer was assistant chief of
the Statistical Research Division at the Bureau of the Census in Washing
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ton, D.C., and has held various positions within the Census Bureau since
1978. In 1985 the Bureau of the Census awarded him its bronze medal for
superior federal service. Biemer is also currently chair of the Survey Re-
search Methods Section and serves on the Committee on Energy Statistics
of the American Statistical Association. He serves as an associate editor for
the Journal of Official Statistics. He is a fellow of the American Statistical
Association. His research interests involve the design and estimation of
nonsampling error in sample surveys, survey methodology, and quality man-
agement for survey operations. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics
and a Ph.D. in statistics from Texas A&M University.
GORDON J. BRACKSTONE is assistant chief statistician responsible for
statistical methodology, computing, and geography at Statistics Canada. From
1982 to 1985 he was the director-general of the Methodology Branch at
Statistics Canada, and previously he was responsible for surveys and data
acquisition in the Central Statistical Office of British Columbia. His pro-
fessional work has been in survey methodology, particularly the assessment
of the quality of survey data. He is a fellow of the American Statistical
Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
lIe received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in statistics from the London School
of Economics.
CONSTANCE F. CITRO (Study Director) is a member of the staff of the
Committee on National Statistics. She is a former vice president and deputy
director of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and was an American Statis-
tical Association/National Science Foundation (NSF) research fellow at the
Bureau of the Census. For the Committee on National Statistics, she has
served or is currently serving as study director for the Panel on Poverty and
Family Assistance, the Panel to Study the NSF Scientific and Technical
Personnel Data System, the Panel on Decennial Census Methodology, the
Panel on Statistics on Supply and Demand for Precollege Science and Mathematics
Teachers, and the Panel to Evaluate Microsimulation Models for Social
Welfare Programs. Her research has focused on the usefulness and accessi-
bility of large, complex microdata files, as well as analysis related to in-
come measurement and demographic change. She is a fellow of the Amen-
can Statistical Association. She received a B.A. degree from the University
of Rochester and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Yale
University.
CLIFFORD C. CLOGG is professor of sociology and statistics at the Penn-
sylvania State University. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Asso-
ciation and the Sociological Research Association. He has been the editor
of Sociological Methodology and the coordinating and applications editor of
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the Journal of the American Statistical Association. He has served on the
Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association and the Popula-
tion Association of America. His research interests include the demography
of the labor force and statistical methods for categorical data. He received
a B.A. degree in sociology from Ohio University and an M.S. degree in
statistics and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.
MARTIN HEIDENHAIN DAVID is professor of economics at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has explored a variety of prob-
lems relating to taxation and transfer programs. Investigating those topics
with data on individuals and families has led him to become expert in
problems of managing complex data, including the design of information
systems to support such data. Together with Alice Robbin and Tom Flory,
he designed an integrated system that served as a national facility for re-
search on the Survey of Income and Program Participation. PC-SIPPTEST
and its accompanying manual, Analyzing Complex Data, provide a personal
computer subsample of the data for exploratory learning and development
of research queries. tie serves as adviser to the Statistics of Income Divi-
sion of the Internal Revenue Service and is a member of the Committee on
National Statistics and the Advisory Board of the German Socio-economic
Panel Study. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and
received a B.A. degree from Swarthmore and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in
economics from the University of Michigan.
GREG J. DUNCAN is program director at the Survey Research Center and
professor of economics at the University of Michigan. His research areas
are in income distribution and poverty as well as methodological issues
associated with household panel studies. For the past 10 years he has been
codirector of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics project, which has con-
ducted annual interviews with a representative sample of U.S. households
since 1968. He received a B.A. degree from Grinnell College and a Ph.D.
from the University of Michigan.
RALPH E. FOLSOM is chief scientist for Survey and Computing Sciences
at the Research Triangle Institute. From 1985 to 1988 he was acting direc-
tor of RTI's Center for Research in Statistics, in which he held various
positions since 1970. His area of expertise is the design and analysis of
complex probability samples. In addition to his innovative work on many
of the complex survey efforts conducted by RTI, he has made significant
contributions to the development of RTI's computer software for survey
data analysis. These contributions include sample design-based modes of
estimation and inference for linear and logistic regression coefficients. Re
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cently he collaborated with RTI colleagues in the implementation of soft-
ware for fitting continuous time "Cox Proportional Hazards" models to
survey data. His recent work on generalized raking has led to efficient
software for survey weight adjustments. He is a member of the Working
Group on Technical Aspects of SIPP of the Survey Research Methods Sec-
tion of the American Statistical Association and of the Board of Governors
for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. He received a B.S. degree from
Texas A&M University in wildlife management, an M.S. in statistics from
Iowa State University, and a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of
North Carolina.
ROBERT M. HAWSER is Vilas research professor of sociology and director
of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison, where he has been on the faculty since 1969. He has also held a
faculty appointment at Brown University and visiting appointments at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Vienna and at the University of Bergen. He
received a B.A. degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. degree
from the University of Michigan. His doctoral thesis was chosen for publi-
cation in the Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Associa-
tion, and he has won the Paul F. Lazarsfeld award in research methods from
the American Sociological Association. lIe is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences, the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences
and Education, and the Committee on National Statistics. He is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American
Statistical Association, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His publications related to education and social inequality include five books
and numerous articles. His current research interests include trends in edu-
cational progression and social mobility in the United States among racial
and ethnic groups, the effects of families on social and economic inequality,
and changes in socioeconomic standing, health, and well-being across the
life course.
V. JOSEPH HOTZ is associate professor in the Irving B. Harris School of
Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. He serves as the direc-
tor of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago and the
National Opinion Research Center, Inc.; is a research associate at the Insti-
tute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and
is a coeditor of the Journal of Labor Economics. He also is a member of
the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on the
JOBS Evaluation. His primary research interests are in the areas of labor
force and population dynamics, the econometrics of dynamic choice mod-
els, and the evaluation of social programs. His most recent work has inves
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ligated the use of nonexperimental methods in the evaluation of job training
programs and the importance of child care regulations and other factors on
the demand for and cost of child care in the United States. He received a
B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in economics
from the University of Wisconsin.
RANDALL J. OLSEN is professor of economics and director of the Center
for Human Resource Research at Ohio State University. He also serves as
principal investigator on the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Mar-
ket Experience. He is an associate editor for applications and case studies
for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and serves on the
social science and population study section for the National Institutes of
Health. His primary research interests are in applied econometrics, eco-
nomic demography, and labor economics with some recent work on survey
methodology. He received a B.A. degree in economics and mathematics
from Ripon College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the
University of Chicago.
PATRICIA RUGGLES is a senior research associate at the Urban Institute,
where she has been a staff member since 1984. She has written extensively
on poverty, the distribution of income, and public income support programs.
She has also directed a number of studies for the Food and Nutrition Ser-
vice of the Department of Agnculture and for the Department of Health and
Human Services, among others. In 1989-1990 she served as a senior econo-
mist with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress while on
leave from the Institute. In 1987-1988 she was an American Statistical
Association/National Science Foundation research fellow at the Bureau of
the Census, where she studied determinants of the durations of poverty and
welfare spells. She is the author of a book on alternatives in measuring
poverty and numerous papers and articles, and has considerable experience
in working with the SIPP data. Before joining the Urban Institute, she
spent four years as an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, where
she was responsible for analyses of social security and means-tested trans-
fer programs. At CBO she completed a series of studies of the distribu-
tional impacts of tax and transfer program changes and directed a major
study of legislative changes in human resources programs. She received a
B.A. from Yale University and did graduate work in economics at Harvard
University. Her dissertation examined the effects of taxes and program
expenditures on households of different types.
TERENCE SPEED is professor and chair in the Department of Statistics at
the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to that, he was chief of the
CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics in Canberra, Australia, and
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he has held academic posts in Australia and the United Kingdom. He
received a Ph.D. from Monash University in Australia in mathematics, and
he has published research in probability theory and theoretical statistics and
in a number of applied areas. He is a fellow of the American Statistical
Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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