“Irish Immigrants and their Progeny around the World” by James P. Smith

Lecture 17:00 to 18:00 followed by a reception upstairs in the Deloitte Gallery
About the Speaker: James P. Smith holds the Distinguished Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies at the RAND Corporation. He has studied immigration, the economics of aging, racial and gender differences in wages and employment, the effects of development on labor markets and health, wealth accumulation and savings behavior, and the dual interrelation of health and economic status. Smith has also studied assessments of subjective responses using vignettes, international differences in health outcome, development and health in China, and the relationship between early life events and later life health and economic outcomes. Smith chaired the Panel on Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration (1995–1997), the Committee on Population, and the Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Sciences. He has been an invited speaker before the President's Initiative on Race in Phoenix, the Federal Reserve Board of Los Angeles, and the Prime Minister and members of Parliament of New Zealand, among many others. Smith has twice received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Merit Award, the most distinguished honor NIH grants to a researcher. In 2013, Smith received an honorary degree of Doctor of the University from the University of Stirling, Scotland; in 2011, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Medicine; and in 2009, he received the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin. In 2011, he was awarded the Cozzarelli Prize for best article in social and behavioral science in PNAS. Smith received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.