Grants

Apr 2024 - Mar 2026: Principal Investigator, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), R21HD115216 "Can Successful Early Childhood Interventions Sustain Impacts into Middle Childhood,  with Jill Luoto (USC), Frances Aboud (McGill), Teresa Mwoma (Kenyatta University).

Oct 2022 - Sep 2027: Principal Investigator, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), R01 HD107116. "Achieving Sustained Early Child Development Impacts at Scale: an mHealth parenting intervention in rural Kenya",  with Jill Luoto (USC), Frances Aboud (McGill), Teresa Mwoma (Kenyatta University) and Edith Alu (SWAP-Kenya). 

Oct 2022 - Sep 2027: Co-Investigator, National Institute of Aging (NIA), R01 AG046290. "Assessment of Health-Related Work Capacity to Improve Independence of Older Adults", with Nicole Maestas (Harvard), and Kathleen Mullen (USC). 

Oct 2022 - Sep 2023: Principal Investigator, Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center. "Job Demands, Time Use, and the Timing of Retirement", with Kathleen Mullen (USC) and Arie Kapteyn (USC).

Oct 2021 - Sep 2022.: Principal Investigator,  Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center. "The Role of Physical and Cognitive Job Demands and Environmental Conditions on Disability and Retirement", with Kathleen Mullen (USC) and Jeff Wenger (RAND). 

Oct 2020 - Sep 2021: Principal Investigator,  Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center "The Role of Physical and Cognitive Job Demands on Work and Retirement", with Kathleen Mullen (USC) and Jeff Wenger (RAND). 

Jul 2020 - Jun 2022: Principal Investigator, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) R21 grant. "Pathways and Mediators of Change in Early Childhood Development", with Jill Luoto.

July 2018-Jun 2022: Principal Investigator, National Institute of Aging (NIA) R21 grant. "Heterogenous Effects of Retirement on Cognition in the United States: The Role of Job Demands", with Kathleen Mullen (USC) and Jeffrey Wenger (RAND).

Oct 2019 - Sep 2020: Co-Investigator, Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center. "The Changing Nature of Work", with Kathleen Mullen (USC) and Nicole Maestas (Harvard). 

Oct 2018 - Sep 2019, Co-Investigator, Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center. "Latent Work Capacity and Retirement Expectations". (with Kathleen Mullen (USC) and Nicole Maestas (Harvard). 

Apr 2017 - Mar 2022: Co-Investigator. "Testing Means to Scale Early Childhood Development Interventions in Rural Kenya". NICHD R01 grant, with Jill Luoto (USC), Daisy Singla (Toronto), Frances Aboud (McGill), Lia Fernald (UC Berkeley). 

Oct 2016 - Dec 2018, Co-Principal Investigator. "Marriage and Fertility in Korea: A Life-cycle Model of Women’s Education, Work, and Family Decision", with David Knapp (USC), Krishna Kumar (RAND) and Jinkook Lee (USC). 

Oct 2016 - Sep 2017: Co-Investigator, Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center. "Exploring the Social Security Benefit Implication of Same-Sex Marriage". Michigan Retirement Research Center., with Michael Pollard (RAND). 

Mar 2015 - Dec 2017: Co-Investigator, Korean Institute of Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA). "A Dynamic Micro-simulation Model of Korean Saving, Work, and Retirement Decisions", with David Knapp (USC) and Jinkook Lee (USC). 

Oct 2015 - Sep 2016: Principal Investigator, Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center "Means-tested minimum old-age benefits, poverty rates and well-being: Studying the 2008 Chilean Pension Reforms".

Jan 2014: Co-Principal Investigator, World Bank Research Scholarship Bursary. "The Role of parental knowledge and behavior in child development", with Emanuela Galasso (World Bank) and Pedro Carneiro (UCL).