Robert M. Hauser American Philosophical Society and University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA

Robert M. Hauser is a sociologist, demographer, and social statistician. He is currently the Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society and Vilas Research Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has been an investigator on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) since 1969 and led the study from 1980 to 2010. The WLS, which began as a study of postsecondary education, has followed the lives of more than 10,000 Wisconsin High School graduates of 1957 for more than 60 years. Hauser’s research interests include statistical methodology, trends in social mobility and educational progression and achievement, race-ethnic inequality, the uses of educational assessment as a policy tool, and changes in socioeconomic standing, cognition, health, and well-being across the life course.