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The Center's multidisciplinary core research team includes more than 10 social scientists from disciplines including economics, education, , psychology, social work, and sociology.
The investigators have strong expertise in the field of aging and workplace research, and regularly publish and present their findings.
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Elyssa Besen
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Research Assistant Elyssa Besen is a research assistant at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work. Her primary work is on the Age & Generations Study. In addition to her work at the center, Elyssa is a doctoral student in the Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology program at Boston College. Her research interest is the role of work in adult development. |
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Kevin E. Cahill, PhD
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Associate Kevin E. Cahill is an associate at Analysis Group, Inc. in Boston. He received his BA in mathematics from Rutgers College and his PhD in economics from Boston College. Dr. Cahill currently writes on topics related to the economics of aging. |
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Michael D. Giandrea, PhD
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Research Economist Michael D. Giandrea is a research economist in the Office of Productivity and Technology at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. He received his BS from Bates College and his PhD in economics from Boston College. His work includes research into the determinants of retirement, self employment among older workers, and the effects of mergers among firms on firm level productivity growth. |
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Masa Higo, MA
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Research Associate Masa Higo is a research associate at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, where he is in charge of supporting research recruiters' activities as the project manager for the Generations of Talent Study. Masa is also a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at Boston College. His research focuses mainly on cross-national comparative studies on the role of public policy with respect to older worker labor force participation and retirement in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. |
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Shoghik Hovhannisyan, MA
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Research Assistant Shoghik Hovhannisyan is currently pursuing her PhD degree in Economics at Boston College and she is also actively collaborating with the Sloan Center on Aging and Work. Shoghik holds a Masters degree in International Development Policy from Duke University and a Masters degree in Economics from Boston College. Since 2005 she has also been involved as a consultant in various organizations including the World Bank, Urban Institute and Duke Center for International Development. |
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Jacquelyn B. James, PhD
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Co-director of Research Jacquelyn B. James, a personality and developmental psychologist, is co-director of research at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work and a research professor at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Her research has focused on the meaning and experience of work in women’s lives, gender roles, and adult development. Her most recent publication, The Crown of Life: Dynamics of the Early Postretirement Period, details the opportunities and challenges inherent in the early retirement years for new retirees. She is also co-principal investigator of the Workplace Culture and Flexible Work Arrangements study at the center. Dr. James is past-president of the Society for the Study of Human Development and serves on the editorial board of the society’s flagship journal, Research in Human Development. |
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Jungui Lee, EdD
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Research Associate Jungui Lee is a research associate at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, where she works on Country Context Studies and coordinates other researchers in regard to this project. She has taught human resource development and lifelong education and her research interests include educational program development and evaluation for older adults, career development of older workers, and cross-national comparative research with regard to training policies. |
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Christina Matz-Costa, MSW
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Research Associate Christina Matz-Costa is a research associate at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, where she is in charge of data management and analysis for the Age & Generations Study and the National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development. Christina is also a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College. Her research interests include employee engagement, productive aging, work-family issues, employer response to the aging of the workforce, quantitative data analysis and multi-level modeling. |
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Tay McNamara, PhD
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Co-director of Research Tay K. McNamara is the co-director of research at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. Due to her past experience in using large datasets, she both serves as an internal consultant and oversees research projects related to the use of existing data sets. Additionally, her current research projects include secondary analysis related to work in countries around the world and a primary data collection project dealing with state agencies as employers. |
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Marcie Pitt-Catsoupes, PhD
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Director Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes directs the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. She is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work, and has appointments at the Boston College Carroll School of Management and the Business School at Middlesex University in London. She was the Co-Principal Investigator for the 2006 National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development and the 2007-2008 Age & Generations Study. Her current work includes oversight of the 2009 Talent Management Study. She will be leading the 2010 Generations of Talent study with colleagues from around the world. She was invited to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging as an issue expert, and recently co-edited a special issue of Generations (2007) that focused on aging and work. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes was a recipient of the 2007 Work-Life Legacy Award. She serves on several boards and advisory committees, including the National Advisory Committee for Workplace 2010 at Georgetown University, the Strategy Board for the Association of Work/Life Professionals at the World of Work, and the Purdue Center for Families. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes’ articles have been published in a number of scholarly and practitioner journals. She was a founding co-editor for the international journal, Community, Work and Family. Her publications include The Work-Family Handbook: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches to Research, published by Erlbaum Publishers (2006) which she edited with colleagues. She received her BA from Tufts University, MSP from Boston College, and PhD from Boston University. |
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Joseph F. Quinn, PhD
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James P. McIntyre Professor of Economics Joseph F. Quinn, Professor and James P. McIntyre Chair in Economics, received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and BA in economics from Amherst College. His research interests include labor economics, the economics of aging, and social security reform. Dr. Quinn is on the board of directors and the executive committee of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Previously, he served on the selection panel for the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award, was a member of the board of governors of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security in Amsterdam, a member of the editorial board of the Review of Income and Wealth, and a member of the Massachusetts Governor’s Council. |
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Natalia Sarkisian, PhD
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Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Sarkisian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston College. She is a co-principal investigator on the project. Her current research examines the gender gap in extended family caregiving, the relationship between extended kin support and older workers' employment, the effects of marriage and parenthood on extended family integration and marriage, as well as the racial/ethnic differences in extended family integration and in father-child involvement. |
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Michael Smyer, PhD
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Provost Michael Smyer is the provost and a professor of psychology at Bucknell University. Prior to joining Bucknell, Smyer was a professor of psychology and co-director of the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College. At the Center, he focused on developing evidence-based practices to enhance the individual and organizational effectiveness of 21st-century workplaces. Smyer's research and teaching focus on adult development and aging, with special attention to the impact of the contexts of aging. In addition, he has written extensively on aging and mental health, particularly the policy aspects of this area. |
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Jennifer Swanberg, PhD
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Associate Professor of Social Work Jennifer E. Swanberg is executive director of the Institute for Workplace Innovation at the University of Kentucky, and associate professor in the UK College of Social Work with joint appointments in the Colleges of Medicine and Public Health. She is also a faculty affiliate with the UK Center on Poverty Research and the Center for the Advancement of Women’s Health, a research investigator at the Boston College Center on Aging and Work/Workplace Flexibility and a Research Fellow of the Boston College Work & Family Roundtable. Her research focuses on quality workplaces as a business and work-life effectiveness strategy, access to workplace flexibility among under-represented populations, and the use of human capital and quality employment as a form of economic development. She is co-principal investigator of the Workplace Culture and Flexible Work Arrangements study funded by Center on Aging and Work/Workplace Flexibility. Dr. Swanberg has published widely in research journals and has appeared as a national work-life expert on television and radio. Dr. Swanberg was a recipient of the Alliance of Work-Life Progress Rising Star Award, and in 2005 her research was selected as one of the top 10 research articles by the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. |
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Stephen Sweet, PhD
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Associate Professor of Sociology Stephen Sweet is an associate professor of sociology at Ithaca College and was formerly the associate director of the Cornell Work and Family Careers Institute. He has published widely on work-family concerns and curriculum development. His most recent books are Changing Contours of Work (2008), The Work and Family Handbook: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Methods and Approaches (2005), and Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics (2008, 2003, 1998). His current research focuses on the intersecting concerns of job security, talent retention, and the changing composition of the workforce. |
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Monique Valcour, PhD
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Assistant Professor, Organizational Studies Professor Valcour’s research program focuses on career dynamics and on the integration of work and family roles. One current project examines the effects of career strategies and human resource practices on mobility, earnings, and subjective career success among call center employees. Other projects investigate work-family conflict, organizational career management, and the career experiences of dual-earner couples. Professor Valcour is a former fellow of the Cornell Careers Institute. Her research has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Program on Workplace, Workforce and Working Families and by the Russell Sage and Rockefeller Foundations’ Future of Work Program. |
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Michelle M. Wong, JD, MSW
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Research Assistant Michelle Wong is a Research Assistant at the Sloan Center on Aging & Work. Her research focuses on public policy in the United States, both at the state and federal level. Michelle’s prior work includes analysis of federal employment laws, research for the States as Employers-of-Choice study and state profiles focused on labor force demographics. |
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