MPRC Primary Research Area (PRA)
Dr. Boekeloo's central interest over more than 25 years has been behavioral intervention to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STI), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among health disparity populations. As Project Director/Principal Investigator(PI), he has designed and led risk assessment and intervention projects regarding sexual and related behavioral risks.
Dr. Erich Battistin is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, a Faculty Associate at the Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC), a Senior Research Fellow at FBK IRVAPP, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work). Before joining Maryland, Dr. Battistin held positions at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Padua, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Christopher Antoun is an Assistant Research Professor with a joint appointment at the College of Information Studies (iSchool) and Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM). His research focuses on using smartphones to collect population data, either through text messaging, mobile questionnaires, or apps and sensors. Before coming to UMD, he obtained his PhD in Survey Methodology from the University of Michigan and was a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau.
Katharine G. Abraham is Professor of Economics and Survey Methodology. Her published research includes papers on the work and retirement decisions of older Americans; how government policies affect employers’ choices concerning employment and hours over the business cycle; the effects of financial aid on the decision to attend college; discrepancies in alternative measures of employment, wages and hours; and the measurement of economic activity.
Wade C. Jacobsen is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. His research examines how the development of risky behaviors in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood is shaped by interactions with institutions (e.g., schools, criminal legal system) and social networks. Most of his current research assesses the impacts of a youth’s experience with school discipline or criminal justice involvement on changes in their peer networks and risky behaviors.
Dr. Rendall joined the University of Maryland in the fall of 2011, moving from the RAND Corporation where he was Senior Social Scientist, Director of the Population Research Center and Postdoctoral Program in Population Studies, and Associate Director of the Labor and Population Division. His methodological work has included evaluation of data quality in fertility, family structure, and international migration; elderly poverty measurement; new statistical methods for combining survey and population data; and new methods for the simulation of cohort lifetimes and population dynamics.