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Robert T. Michael, Ph.D.
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Robert T. Michael is the Eliakim Hastings Moore
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Harris School.
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Robert T. Michael, the Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Harris School, chaired the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance, which recommended major changes in the official measure of poverty in the United States. Michael's current research focuses on parental investments in children, and on adolescent and adult sexual behavior in the United States. Michael has written on the causes of divorce; the reasons for the growth of one-person households; the impact of inflation on families; the consequences of the rise in women's employment for the family, especially children; teenage fertility; sexually transmitted disease; and abortion. Michael has helped to design and conduct the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), 1979; the Children of the NLSY; the NLSY97; and the Children of the National Child Development Study (NCDS). Michael is currently the project director of the NLSY Program. He also serves as the director of the Population Research Center at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC)/University of Chicago. He is a former dean of the Harris School and a former CEO of NORC. He has also directed the West Coast office of the National Bureau of Economics Research. Michael has been at the University of Chicago since 1980, having previously taught economics at Stanford University and the University of California at Los Angeles. He serves on the Board of Trustees of NORC, Western Reserve Academy, and served on the Federal Advisory Committee to the National Children's Study 2002-2006. In 2005, Michael received the Robert J. Lapham Award from the Population Association of America in recognition of his many contributions during his career blending research with the application of demographic knowledge to policy issues.
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