Department of Economics, University of Michigan


			Frank Stafford Professor of Economics PhD, University of Chicago, 1968 U of M Affiliation(s) Research Professor, Survey Research Center Contact Information University of Michigan Department of Economics 611 Tappan M108 Lorch Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 Phone: 734-936-0323 Fax: 734-764-2769 Email: fstaffor@umich.edu

Fields of Study Labor Economics About Frank Stafford Professor Stafford is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and is Pricipal Investigator of the Child Development Supplement of th Panel Study of Income Dynamics. His active research areas include issues of time allocation, the economics of childcare, and cross-national comparative studies on the role of information technology. Other research interests include family decisions about wealth, pensions and savings as they relate to individual mental and physical health through time. Publications “Wealth Dynamics of American Families, 1984-1994,” (with Erik Hurst and Ming Ching Luoh), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1998:I, p. 276-337. “Technology Regimes and the Distribution of Real Wages”, (with George Johnson) in Microfoundations of Economc Growth: A Schumpeterian Perspective (Christopher Greene and Gunnar Eliasson, eds.) University of Michigan Press, 1998 P. “The Labor Market Implications of International Trade,” (with George E. Johnson) paper published in Handbook of Labor Economcs, Vol. 3, 1999, p. 2215-2288. (O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, Eds.). "The Measurement and Structure of Household Wealth,” (with Tom Juster and James Smith), Labour Economics, Volume 6, No.2, June, 1999, p. 253-276. “Portfolio Choices of Parents and Their Children as Young Adults: asset Accumulation by African American Families” (with Ngina Chiteji), American Economic Review, May, 1999, p. 377-380. “Until Death Do Us Part Or I Get My Pension?” (with Hiromi Ono) The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2001, p.1-20. “Event History Calendar and Question List Survey Interviewing Methods: A Direct Comparison.” (with Robert F. Belli and William P. Shay) Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 65, p. 45-74, 2001. “Wealth Dynamics in the Late 1990’s: Sweden and the United States” (with Anders Klevmarken and Joseph Lupton), Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 38, No. 2, p. 322-353. “Evolution and Change in Family Income, Wealth and Health: The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1968-2000 and Beyond,” (with Greg Duncan and Sandra L. Hofferth) Manuscript prepared for the 50th Anniversary Volume of the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Press, Fall, 2002. “Alternative Approaches to the Measurement of Time Use,” (with Tom Juster and Hiromi Ono), Sociological Methodology, 2003. “The Panel Study of Income Dynamics Online: An Instructional Resource,” (with Ngina Chiteji), Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 457-468. “The Distribution of Children’s Developmental Resources,” (with Jean Yeung), forthcoming The Economics of Time Use, p. 289-313. (Daniel S. Hamermesh and G.A. Pfann, Eds.) Elsevier, 2005. “Home is Where the Equity Is,” (with Erik Hurst) Department of Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, December, 2004, p.985-1014. “The Decline in Household Savings and the Wealth Effect,” (with Juster, F.Thomas, Joseph P. Lupton, James Smith) Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005. Financial Market Participation and Pension Holdings Over the Life Course,” (with Elena Gouskova and Ngina Chiteji), forthcoming in Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues. (Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and Ngina S. Chiteji, eds), 2006. rdon-Nembhard and Ngina S. Chiteji, eds), 2006.