Jinkook Lee
Senior Economist
RAND

Jinkook Lee is a senior economist at RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Before joining RAND, she was a professor at Ohio State University and has held visiting positions at Federal Reserve Board and University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research expertise includes economics of aging, family economics, and consumer finances, with particular interests in health, retirement, and well-being of the elderly. Her recent publications focus on education gradients in health and their potential pathways in various policy environments and cultures. She has developed several large-scale, multidisciplinary longitudinal studies and has been a co–principal investigator of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India since its inception. Lee leads the research network of the Health and Retirement Studies around the world and has developed the Survey Meta Data Repository with her colleagues at RAND. Lee received her Ph.D. in family economics from Ohio State University.