Ryan D. Edwards

Current positions

Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health Systems, UCSF School of Nursing; faculty member, Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership (HAIL) Program

Research Associate, Berkeley Population Center

Lecturer, Departments of Demography and Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Brief bio

Ryan D. Edwards is an economist and demographer who has served two committees of the National Academies. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 2002 from the University of California at Berkeley, and he was a tenured associate professor of economics at Queens College in the City University of New York prior to returning to Berkeley in 2016. He is currently an associate adjunct professor at UCSF, a research associate at the Berkeley Population Center, and a lecturer in demography and economics at UC Berkeley.

Curriculum vitae

My full CV contains embedded links to my work. A one-page version is here.

Research interests

• The economics of aging, health, and mortality
• Immigration
• Macroeconomics
• Economic demography and family economics
• Public finance
• National security

What's new?

• Edwards, Ryan D., Willa Brenowitz, Elena Portacolone, Ken E. Covinsky, Andrew Bindman, M. Maria Glymour, and Jacqueline M. Torres (2020) "Difficulty and Help with Activities of Daily Living Among Older Adults Living Alone with Cognitive Impairment," Alzheimer's & Dementia, June 26.

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