James McNally

Research Investigator
Director, National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

Phone: 734-615-9520
Email: jmcnally@umich.edu
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Brief Biography

James McNally is the Director of the NACDA Program on Aging, a data archive containing over 1,500 studies related to health and the aging lifecourse. Originally trained in formal demography at Georgetown University, Dr. McNally developed an interest in gerontology while at Brown University and in policy research while at Syracuse University's Center for Policy Research. He works primarily on issues of family support and health among the aged, both in the United States and internationally. He does methodological research on the repair of deficient data and has been cited as an expert authority on imputation in deliberations before the U.S. Supreme Court. Most recently, he has been studying the impacts of heterogeneity on health outcomes among elderly U.S. Asian/Pacific Islander populations.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Phua, Voon Chin, James McNally, Keong-Suk Park. "Immigration and Poverty Among Elderly Asian Americans in the 21st Century." Journal of Poverty. Forthcoming.

Park, Keong-Suk, Voon Chin Phua, James W. McNally, RongJun Sun. (Forthcoming). "Diversity and Structure of Intergenerational Relationship: Elderly Parents-Adult Children Relations in Korea." Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. Volume 20, Number 4 / December, 2005.

Sassler, Sharon, and James McNally. 2003. "Cohabiting Couple's Economic Circumstances and Union Transitions: A Re-Examination Using Multiple Imputation Methods." Social Science Research. Vol 32:4 Dec, 2003.

McNally, James W. 2002. "Widowhood and Family Support in the North and South Pacific: A Comparative Review." Journal of Women and Aging. Vol 15:2/3. Fall, 2003.

NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF COMPUTERIZED DATA ON AGING
P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor MI 48106-1248
Phone: 734.647.5000 Fax: 734.647.8200
nacda@icpsr.umich.edu