CURRICULUM VITAE

Gretchen S. Donehower

(formerly Gretchen E. Stockmayer)

Department of Demography

University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, California 94720

E-mail: gretchen@demog.berkeley.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, Demography, University of California at Berkeley (2004)

Dissertation: "The Demographic Foundations of Change in U.S. Households in the 20^th Century"

[.pdf Dissertation Abstract] [.pdf Dissertation Full Text]

MA, Statistics, University of California at Berkeley (2003)

Thesis: "A Statistical Time Series Analysis of a Howler Monkey Population"

[.pdf Thesis Abstract]

Certificate of Attendance, Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques,

Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan (August, 2000)

MA in Demography, University of California at Berkeley (December, 1999)

BA in Economics and Mathematics, Yale University (May, 1993)

PUBLICATIONS

Jorge Bravo, Mun Sim, Lai, Gretchen Donehower, and Iván Mejía-Guevara (2015) "Ageing and retirement security: United States of America and Mexico," Chapter 5 in Challenges in Latino Aging in the Americas. William A. Vega, Kyriakos S. Markides, Jacqueline L. Angel, and Fernando M. Torres-Gil, eds. Springer. pp. 77-89.

Ronald Lee, Andrew Mason, et al. (2014) "Is low fertility really a problem? Populating aging, dependency, and consumption," Science, 346 (6206): 229-234.

Gretchen S. Donehower and Carl Boe (2012) "Appendix A. Population and Related Projections Made by the Committee." Technical Appendix to National Research Council's Aging and the Macroeconomy: Long-Term Implications of an Older Population. Committee on the Long-Run Macroeconomic Effects of the Aging U.S. Population. Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. pp. 219-231.

Douglas A. Wolf, Ronald Lee, Timothy Miller, Gretchen Donehower and Alexandre Genest (2011) "The fiscal externalities of becoming a parent," Population and Development Review, 37 (2): 241-266.

Ronald Lee and Gretchen Donehower (2011) "Private transfers in comparative perspective," Chapter 8 in Population Aging and the Generational Economy: A Global Perspective. Ronald D. Lee and Andrew Mason, eds. Edward Elgar, UK. pp. 185-208.

Ronald Lee, Gretchen Donehower, and Timothy Miller (2011) "The changing shape of the economic lifecycle in the United States, 1960 to 2003," Chapter 15 in Population Aging and the Generational Economy: A Global Perspective. Ronald D. Lee and Andrew Mason, eds. Edward Elgar, UK. pp. 313-326.

Ronald Lee and Gretchen Donehower (2010) "Population aging, intergenerational transfers, and economic growth: Latin America in a Global Context", Notas de población, Issue Number 90. (in Spanish)

Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, Gretchen Donehower, Sang-Hyop Lee, Tim Miller, An-Chi Tung, Amonthep Chawla. (2009) "National Transfer Accounts Version 1.0." Technical Manual for the National Transfer Accounts project, available through www.ntaccounts.org.

K. J. Milton, J. Giacalone, S. J. Wright and G. Stockmayer (2005).  "Do Population Fluctuations of Neotropical Mammals Reflect Fruit Production Estimates? The Evidence from Barro Colorado Island." in Tropical Fruits and Frugivores: The Search for Strong Interactions.  L. Dew and J.P. Boubli, eds. Springer-Verlag, The Netherlands.

Claude S. Fischer, Gretchen Stockmayer, Jon Stiles and Michael Hout (2004). "Distinguishing the Geographic Levels and Social Dimensions of U.S. Metropolitan Segregation: 1960-2000." Demography, 41(1): 37-59.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Project Director, Counting Women's Work (January, 2014 - present)

Department of Demography, University of California at Berkeley and Development Policy Reserach Unit, University of Cape Town

• Develops National Time Transfer Accounts methodology to estimate value of unpaid care and housework so that it can be integrated with traditional measures of economic activity, maintains NTTA estimates for the United States, and trains and advises research teams in nine countries as part of Counting Women's Work project.
• Develops, implements, and manages project trainings, technical assistance, and dissemination activities.
• Manages grant writing, funder communication, reporting, and budget.

Academic Specialist, Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging (December, 2005 - present)

Department of Demography, University of California at Berkeley

Professor Ronald D. Lee

• Develops methodology to produce age- and sex-specific estimates of economic activity at the national level as part of the National Transfer Accounts project (NTA, www.ntaccounts.org); maintains NTA estimates for the United States and trains and advises NTA teams in over 30 other countries; uses results to describe the generational aspect of how nations produce, consume, share and save.
• Coordinates global efforts to incorporate gender perspective into project by creating economic accounts by gender and adding unpaid household production as measured in time use surveys.
• Maintains forecasting and simulation tools developed by researchers affiliated with the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) and develops new tools in conjunction with CEDA researchers.

Graduate Student Researcher, Century of Difference Project (September, 2001 - August, 2004)

Russell Sage Foundation and Survey Research Center at UC Berkeley

Under Principal Investigators Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout

• Analyzed data on residential segregation, household, community and cultural change in the United States over the twentieth century. Project used Census aggregate- and micro-level data, large-scale survey data, and demographic microsimulation. Research was compiled in volume published in 2006.

Informal Collaborator, Research on Howler Monkey Demography (January, 2002 - December, 2003)

Professor Katharine Milton

• Formulated and ran statistical analyses on demographic field data on Howler Monkeys, estimating population parameters over time and how they related to environmental data on rainfall and food availability in a neotropical forest environment.

Graduate Student Researcher, Beyond Six Billion Project (October, 2000 - December, 2000)

Professor Ronald D. Lee

• Ran Monte Carlo simulations to estimate variability in fertility estimates, for National Research Council report "Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World's Population," published in 2000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Trainer, National Transfer Accounts (NTA) Project (January 2007 - present)

University of California at Berkeley and East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

• Taught NTA methods to researchers from all over the world, to describe the generational (age-specific) nature of production, consumption, sharing and saving in their countries.
• Coordinated workshops on adding gender dimension to National Transfer Accounts research

Instructor of Team-Taught Laboratory Course (January - June of 2006 and 2007)

University of California at Berkeley, Department of Demography

• Assisted students in all laboratory sessions of a graduate-level Demography course. Developed and delivered all lectures and labs for four weeks of the semester.

Head Teaching Assistant (January, 2001 - June, 2001)

University of California at Berkeley, Department of Demography

• Administered and taught sections of Economic Demography course for 300 students. Supervised six Graduate Student Instructors and Readers.

Graduate Student Instructor (January, 2000 - June, 2000)

University of California at Berkeley, Department of Demography

• Taught sections for Economic Demography Course.

AWARDS

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (Academic Year 2000-2001)

Graduate Student Instructor Teaching and Resource Center, University of California at Berkeley

Poster Session Award (March, 2001)

Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

Four-Year Graduate Student Trainee Fellowship (September, 1998 - May, 2002)

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

WORK EXPERIENCE

Private Consultant, (2009 – present)

• Occasional quantitative consulting provided to clients for short term projects. Past projects have involved estimating potential market size, technical writing, statistical evaluation of research experiments, and policy analyses.

Technical Consultant (June, 2010 - December, 2012)

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, New York, NY

• Drafted chapters and appendices of technical manual on developing National Transfer Accounts estimates of economic activity by age. Revised chapters based on several expert group meetings. Manual will become an official United Nations technical document.

Research Statistician (September, 2004 - December, 2005)

Scientific Learning, Inc., Oakland, CA

• Designed and conducted experiments and performed statistical analyses to evaluate and enhance the impact of software programs on student achievement in language and literacy. Monitored and evaluated research on educational interventions to raise awareness of the company's research in the education community.

Consulting Associate and Team Leader (April, 1996 - May, 1998)

Cambridge Associates, Inc., Boston, MA

• Managed research, data collection and analysis and client service for institutional investment consulting clients. Managed work flow and professional development for team of six consulting associates.

Mathematics and English Teacher and Teacher Trainer (September, 1993 - December, 1995)

His Majesty's Government/U.S. Peace Corps, Nepal

• Taught fourth and sixth grade students mathematics and English in rural Nepalese school. Trained secondary-level mathematics teachers in new mathematics curriculum. Wrote, field-tested and revised curricula for Nepalese national teacher training effort.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Advanced programming and statistical analysis ability in Stata, R, S-Plus, SPSS and MS Excel. Competent in SAS and Matlab. Programming experience in C+. Experienced in Windows and Unix/Linux platforms. Word processing in MS Word and mathematical typesetting in Latex.

Updated: January, 2013