Thomas Fraser Crossley

Thomas Fraser Crossley is a Research Professor at the Survey Research Center within the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. He also serves as Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).

Research Interests:

• Household consumption and saving behavior
• Financial security and living standards
• Economic measurement and survey methodology
• Analysis of labor market inequalities during crises
• Biomeasure sample collection in surveys

Article Trends: His recent publications focus on survey design innovations, economic inequality analysis, and econometric techniques. Topics include mixed-mode data collection, administrative data linkage, pandemic-induced financial disparities, and belief accuracy metrics.

Labs & Teams: He leads the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), a major longitudinal survey project examining economic and social change in U.S. households.