Research Summaries.

Robert Moffitt is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, where he also holds a joint appointment at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Previously, he was a faculty member at Brown University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the past president of both SOLE and the Population Association of America, and received a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health. He has been chief editor of American Economic Review andjournal of Human Resources and coeditor of The Review of Economics and Statistics, He is currently editor of the annual NBER Tax Policy and the Economy volume. He is a research associate in the NBER's Economics of Children and Public Economics programs, and a member of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.

Moffitt's research interests are in labor economics and applied microeconometrics, with a special focus on the economics of issues relating to the low-income population in the US. He has been particularly focused on the labor supply decisions of female heads of families and how they respond to the welfare system, on the behavioral effects of social insurance programs and income taxes, and on labor market volatility.

Moffitt lives in Baltimore with his wife, Emily Agree, a faculty member in sociology at Johns Hopkins. He was born in Houston, Texas and received his BA in economics from Rice University and his PhD in economics from Brown.

Lucie Schmidt is professor of economics at Smith College, a research associate affiliated with the NBER's Program on Children, and a coeditor of the Review of the Economics of the Household. She is an empirical microeconomist working in the fields of labor and health economics and the economics of the family.

Schmidt has worked extensively on social safety net programs in the United States, with a particular focus on programs for individuals with disabilities. Other research areas include retirement security and the economics of marriage and fertility decisions. She has received grants from the National Institute of

Child Health and Human Development, the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Social Security Administration-funded Retirement and Disability Research Centers at the University of Michigan and at the NBER. Schmidt's work has been...