V. Joseph Hotz

V. Joseph Hotz is a Research Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is affiliated with the UChicago Health Lab, the UChicago Center on Healthy Aging Behaviors and Longitudinal Investigations (CHABLIS), the Chicago Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD), as well as the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy (CCFP).

Hotz previously was on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles and Carnegie Mellon University and most recently was the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Duke University.

Hotz’s areas of research include the economics of the family, economic demography, labor economics, population health, applied econometrics, and the evaluation of social programs. His most recent work has focused on the role of families in the intergenerational transmission of economic attainment, the intergenerational consequences of disparities in morbidity and mortality for America’s families and the balancing of data confidentiality and usability in the data products of U.S. federal statistical agencies. 

Hotz currently serves as principal investigator of the Add Health Parent Study, a study of intergenerational linkages in health, cognition and economic well-being between parents and their adult children; the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Rural Aging and the Mid-Life Health Inequalities in the Rural South study which are examining aging at midlife in rural America; and the Collaborative for Innovation in Data & Measurement in Aging (CIDMA), which fosters and supports innovations in data and measurement in studies of aging. All are funded by the National Institute on Aging.

Hotz is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society of Labor Economists, the International Association of Applied Econometrics, and the Southern Economics Association.

Hotz received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.