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Suggested Citation:"Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff." National Research Council. 1999. Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty: Interim Report 3. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6427.
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Biographical Sketches of Pane! Members and Staff GRAHAM KALTON (Chair) is a senior statistician and senior vice president of Westat. He is also a research professor in the Joint Program in Survey Method- ology at the University of Maryland. Previously he was a research scientist in the Survey Research Center and a professor of biostatistics and statistics at the Uni- versity of Michigan, professor of social statistics at the University of Southampton, and reader in social statistics at the London School of Economics. His research interests are in survey sampling and general survey methodology. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians and president of the Washington Statistical Society. He is a past member of the Committee on National Statistics and has served as chair or a member of several of its panels. He received a B.Sc. in economics and an M.Sc. in statistics from the University of London and a Ph.D. in survey methodology from the University of Southampton. DAVID M. BETSON is an associate professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. His previous positions have been as a visiting scholar at the Joint Center for Poverty Research of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, a research associate at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, and an economist in the Office of the Assistant Secre- tary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. His research examines the effects of governments on the distribu- tion of economic well-being with special reference to the measurement of pov- erty and the analysis of child support policy. He received a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 119

120 SMAL L-ARE4 ESTIMATES OF SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN IN POVERTY CONSTANCE F. CITRO is a senior program officer for the Committee on Na- tional Statistics. She is a former vice president and deputy director of Mathe- matica Policy Research, Inc., and was an American Statistical Association/Na- tional Science Foundation research fellow at the Bureau of the Census. For the committee, she has served as study director for numerous panels, including the Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance, the Panel to Evaluate the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the Panel to Evaluate Microsimulation Mod- els for Social Welfare Programs, and the Panel on Decennial Census Methodol- ogy. Her research has focused on the quality and accessibility of large, complex microdata files, as well as analysis related to income and poverty measurement. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. She received a B.A. degree from the University of Rochester and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Yale University. MICHAEL L. COHEN is a senior program officer for the Committee on National Statistics, currently assisting the Panel on Alternate Census Methodologies and the Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas. He previously directed the Panel on Statistical Methods for Testing and Evaluating Defense Systems. Previously, he was a mathematical statistician at the Energy Informa- tion Administration, an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, a research associate at the Committee on National Statis- tics, and a visiting lecturer at the Department of Statistics, Princeton University. His general area of research is the use of statistics in public policy, with particular interest in census undercount, model validation, and robust estimation. He re- ceived a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University. NANCY E. DUNTON is a principal social scientist at the Midwest Research Institute. Formerly, she was a senior research scientist with the New York State Department of Social Services and the New York State Council on Children and Families. Her work focuses on outcome indicators and social demography, with a special emphasis on children's policy issues. She received a Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WAYNE A. FULLER is a distinguished professor in the Department of Statistics and Economics at Iowa State University. He is a fellow of the American Statis- tical Association, the Econometric Society, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and is the author of Introduction to Statistical Time Series and Mea- surement Error Models. He also has an active research program in survey sam- pling. He has held offices in national and international statistical organizations and has previously served on National Research Council panels.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 121 THOMAS B. JABINE is a statistical consultant who specializes in the areas of sampling, survey research methods and statistical policy. He was formerly a statistical policy expert for the Energy Information Administration, chief math- ematical statistician for the Social Security Administration, and chief of the Sta- tistical Research Division of the Bureau of the Census. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the International Statistical Institute. He has a B.S. degree in mathematics and an M.S. degree in economics and science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SYLVIA T. JOHNSON is professor of research methodology and statistics in the School of Education at Howard University, where she is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Negro Education. She has served on the faculties of Roosevelt, Trenton (NJ) State, and Western Illinois universities and Augustana and Chicago City Colleges and as a visiting scholar at the Educational Testing Service. She is currently a principal investigator at the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at-Risk (CRESPAR), a joint activity of Howard University and Johns Hopkins University, and chairman of the Design and Analysis Committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). She has served as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the National Adult Literacy Survey and the Graduate Record Examination and as a trustee of the College Board. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and chairs its Division 15 Committee on Members and Fellows. She is a member of the American Educational Research Association and the National Council on Mea- surement in Education. In addition, she has served on the editorial boards of the Educational Researcher and the Journal of Applied Measurment in Education. Dr. Johnson received a Ph.D. degree in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Iowa. THOMAS A. LOUIS is professor and head of the division of biostatistics at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and professor of statistics in the School of Statistics. His research interests include Bayes and empirical Bayes methods, research synthesis, risk assessment, analysis of longitudinal and spatial data, and sequential design of experiments. He is codirector of the statistical center for Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS and for 6 years directed the statistical center for the school's Cancer Prevention Research Unit. He is a senior associate editor of CHANCE, on the editorial board of Statistics Neerlandica, and on the board of the Medical Follow-up Agency of the Institute of Medicine. He is a member of the International Statistics Institute, a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, and a trustee of the National Institute for Statistical Sci- ences. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Columbia University.

22 SMAL L-ARE4 ESTIMATES OF SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN IN POVERTY SALLY C. MORTON is head of the Statistics Group at RAND in Santa Monica, California. She is a lecturer in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously she taught at the RAND Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and the School of Business of the University of Southern California, visited the Centre for Mathematical Analysis at Australian National University and the University of Southampton, and worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. She serves as an editor of Statistical Science and as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association, is past chair of the association's Section on Statistical Graphics, and is a member of the Caucus for Women in Statistics and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Her health policy research concerns homelessness, severe mental illness, and out- comes research and quality of care in the areas of childbirth and AIDS. Her methodological research concentrates on meta-analysis, nonparametric regres- sion, and the sampling of vulnerable populations. She received a Ph.D. in Statis- tics from Stanford University. JEFFREY S. PASSEL is a principal research associate at the Urban Institute. Previously, he was assistant division chief for estimates and projections in the Population Division of the Bureau of the Census, and he also directed the re- search on demographic methods for measuring census undercount. His research interests include the demography of immigration, particularly the measurement of illegal immigration; the effects and integration of immigrants into American society; and measuring and defining racial and ethnic groups in the United States. He is a member of a number of professional societies and has served in various capacities in the Population Association of America, the American Statistical Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.A. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in social relations from the Johns Hopkins University. J.N.K. RAO is professor of statistics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and a consultant to Statistics Canada. Formerly, he was a professor at the Univer- sity of Manitoba and Texas A&M University. His research interests include survey sampling theory and methods, particularly small-area estimation. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Statistical Association, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He received a Ph.D. degree in statistics from Iowa State University. ALLEN L. SCHIRM is senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Formerly, he was Andrew W. Mellon assistant research scientist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan. His principal research interests include small-area estimation and sample and evaluation design, with application to wel

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 123 fare, food and nutrition, and education policy. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, the American Economic Association, and the Population Association of America. He received an A.B. in statistics from Princeton Univer- sity and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. MICHELE VER PLOEG, a research associate for the panel, is also serving as study director for the Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs of the Committee on National Statistics. Her research interests include the effects of social policies on families and chil- dren, the outcomes of children who experience poverty and changes in family composition, and individuals' education attainment choices. She received a B.A. in economics from Central College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in consumer economics and housing from Cornell University. PAUL R. VOSS is professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. For the past 21 years he has been affiliated with the Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory and is currently its director. He also is affiliated with the Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty. His research involves modeling small-area population change for purposes of population estimation and projec- tion, and he also has studied and written about the demographic composition of small-area migration streams. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Advisory Committee for the 2000 Census as well as the Census Bureau's Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. He received a Ph.D. degree in sociology (demography) from the University of Michigan. JAMES H. WYCKOFF is associate professor of public administration and policy at the University at Albany, of the State University of New York. His research involves applied public economics and public policy, with particular focus on the economics of education. He was an American Statistical Association Fellow at the Census Bureau. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ALAN M. ZASLAVSKY is associate professor of statistics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He was formerly on the faculty of the Department of Statistics at Harvard. His research interests include mea- surement of quality in health care, census methodology, estimation and correc- tion of census undercount, small-area estimation, microsimulation, design and analysis of surveys, and Bayesian methods. He has served on two other panels of the Committee on National Statistics concerned with planning for the 2000 cen- sus. He received a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

24 SMALL-AREA ESTIMATES OF SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN IN POVERTY MEYER ZITTER is an independent demographic consultant. Formerly, he was chief of the Census Bureau's Population Division and also served as assistant director for international programs. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the International Statistical Institute and the Inter- national Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has a B.B.A. degree from City College of New York.

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The U.S. Department of Education uses estimates of school-age children in poverty to allocate federal funds under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for education programs to aid disadvantaged children. Historically, the allocations have been made by a two-stage process: the department's role has been to allocate Title I funds to counties; the states have then distributed these funds to school districts. Until recently, the department has based the county allocations on the numbers and proportions of poor school-age children in each county from the most recent decennial census. States have used several different data sources, such as the decennial census and the National School Lunch Program, to distribute the department's county allocations to districts. In 1994 Congress authorized the Bureau of the Census to provide updated estimates of poor school-age children every 2 years, to begin in 1996 with estimates for counties and in 1998 with estimates for school districts. The Department of Education is to use the school district estimates to allocate Title I basic and concentration grants directly to districts for the 1999-2000 and later school years, unless the Secretaries of Education and Commerce determine that they are "inappropriate or unreliable" on the basis of a study by the National Research Council. That study is being carried out by the Committee on National Statistics' Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas.

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