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exhibit rapid quality and technological improvements, including medical
care. He has B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley.

John Robert Warren is professor of sociology at the University of Minne-
sota. In his ongoing research he is investigating methods for measuring high
school completion rates, assessing the magnitude of panel conditioning bi-
ases in longitudinal surveys, modeling the impact of life-course trajectories
of employment and family statuses on well-being in later adulthood, and
studying the factors that lead voters to support school operating levies. He
is coprincipal investigator on a project to harmonize, integrate, link, and
disseminate all existing data from the Current Population Survey. He is also
an investigator on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which has followed
members of the Wisconsin high school class of 1957 and their families over
half a century. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Robert J. Willis is professor of economics and research professor in the
Survey Research Center and the Population Studies Center of the Institute
for Social Research. He is the past director of the Health and Retirement
Study, a longitudinal survey of over 22,000 persons over age 50 in the
United States, and currently directs a project on cognitive economics. His
research involves the economics of the family, marriage, and fertility, labor
economics, human capital, and population and economic development. He
has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.

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