John Mirowsky is Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University and editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. He is principal investigator on a project funded by the National Institute on Aging to study "Aging, Status and the Sense of Control" and a project funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to study "Children, Child-Care and Psychological Well-Being" (with Catherine E. Ross as co-principal investigator on both). He is a member of a scientific review panel of the National Institutes of Health. His recent publications include "Economic Hardship Across the Life Course," (with Catherine E. Ross, American Sociological Review, 1999), and "Age, Depression and Attrition in the National Survey of Families and Households" (with John R. Reynolds, Sociological Methods and Research,(2000).