Emily Wiemers

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs Link

O'Hanley Faculty Scholar
Faculty Associate, Aging Studies Institute
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Aging and Policy Studies

CAPS Biography:

Emily Wiemers is an Associate Professor in the Public Administration and International Affairs department and a Faculty Associate in the Aging Studies Institute. As an economist who studies the role that families play in promoting health and well-being and the differences in the connection between family and health across socio-economic status, race, and geography, her current research engages with both of the signature themes of health and well-being and family and intergenerational support and the cross-cutting themes of policy, place and specific populations. The signature themes of health and well-being and family and intergenerational support are at the center of her research agenda. As a co-Investigator on a NIA-funded P01, she was part of an interdisciplinary team that collected new data on family rosters and intergenerational transfers in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics [PSID]. Papers using these data address how changes over time in demographic aspects of family life have altered who has kin and the connections among kin including transfer of time and money. Wiemers current work using these data includes examining differences in parental morbidity and mortality by educational attainment and the consequences of parental morbidity and mortality for transfers of time and money between generations, analyzing the consequences of work-limiting disabilities in late middle-age for well-being, and understanding the consequences of the geographic location of intergenerational kin on health. She was also a consultant for an NIA-funded R01 to collect data for the Add Health Parent Study which interviews the parents of the respondents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. These newly released data include more detailed information on the health of parents and their emotional closeness to their children which will be crucial in understanding the role that families play in the health and well-being of their members.