John Bound

Research Professor, Population Studies Center.
Coordinator, Economic Demography, Population Studies Center.
Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center.
Professor, Economics.

Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University

Dr. Bound studies economic, demographic, and policy influences on the labor force participation and health status of older people in the United States. His recent research has also included studies on racial differences in earnings, employment, and health and changes in the returns to higher education. His teaching centers on econometrics and labor economics.

Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging

TRENDS - Evaluating Trends in Old-Age Disability

jbound@umich.edu

734-763-2952

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Geronimus, Bound (Michigan) et al. find growing life expectancy inequality in US cannot be blamed on opioids alone

Bound, Geronimus, et al. find estimates of decreasing longevity among low-SES whites sensitive to measures and interpretations

Select Aging Publications

Bound, John, Arline T. Geronimus, Javier Rodriguez, and Timothy A. Waidmann. 2016. "US Life Expectancy: The Authors Reply." Health Affairs, 35(3).

Ro, Annie Eun Young, Arline T. Geronimus, John Bound, Derek Griffith, and Gilbert Gee. 2016. "Educational gradients in five Asian immigrant populations: Do country of origin, duration and generational status moderate the education-health relationship?" Preventive Medicine Reports, 4: 338-343. PMCID: PMC4963251.

Bound, John, Arline T. Geronimus, Javier Rodriguez, and Timothy A. Waidmann. 2015. "Measuring Recent Apparent Declines In Longevity: The Role Of Increasing Educational Attainment." Health Affairs, 34(12): 2167-2173. PMCID: PMC4783133.

Bound, John, Arline T. Geronimus, Javier Rodriguez, and Timothy A. Waidmann. 2014. "The Implications of Differential Trends in Mortality for Social Security Policy."

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Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC) (SSA)

Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer's Disease (MCCFAD) (NIA)

Economic distress and growing educational disparities in life expectancy: Weathering, high effort coping, and despair (NIA)

Training Program in Causal Inference in Education Policy Research at the University of Michigan (Education, U.S. Department of )