AP-NORC Center Experts

Juan Carlos is a senior research scientist in The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. He has significant experience managing complex multi-mode surveys in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Juan Carlos has designed, conducted, and managed surveys on a variety of topics, including attitudes towards democracy, rule of law, the role of religion in public life, and issues related to public health, such as child development and housing conditions and risk factors for suicide among veterans and military service members.

He leads the partnership between NORC and the World Bank Global Indicators team to conduct their flagship Enterprise Survey, a nationally representative firm-level survey with top managers and owners of businesses in several countries in Latin America and Europe.

He has also managed a number of projects featuring collaborations with researchers such as The Wall Street Journal, Univision, the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, and a national economic survey of African-Americans for The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Juan Carlos has published scholarly work in peer reviewed journals as well as chapters in edited volumes and reports for public release. He is an active member of AAPOR, ESRA and WAPOR and frequently presents at survey research conferences.

Prior to joining NORC, he spent five years at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, where he worked as a senior survey researcher in the Project Design and Management Group. Previously, he started a survey research firm in his native country of Ecuador, where he partnered with local and international organizations such as the Constitutional Court of Ecuador and USAID to design and execute research projects on democracy development and rule of law.

Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. In addition, he serves as the founding director of the University’s Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth and the director of the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He was previously the director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.

He is an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a Carnegie Fellow (aka the “Brainy Award”), and a former editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Formerly, Greenstone was the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT and directed The Hamilton Project.

Greenstone’s research, which has influenced policy in the United States and globally, is focused on the global energy challenge that requires all societies to balance the needs for inexpensive and reliable energy, protection of the public’s health from air pollution, and minimizing the damages from climate change. Recently, his research has helped lead to the United States Government quadrupling its estimate of the damages from climate change, the adoption of pollution markets in India, and the use of machine learning techniques to target environmental inspections. As a co-director of the Climate Impact Lab, he is producing empirically grounded estimates of the local and global impacts of climate change. He created the Air QualityLife Index® that converts air pollution concentrations into their impact on life expectancy and co-founded Climate Vault, a 501(c)(3) that uses markets to allow institutions and people to reduce their carbon footprint and foster innovation in carbon dioxide removal.

Greenstone received a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and a B.A. in Economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.

Louise is a field-leading expert on loneliness and social isolation and their associations with health during aging. At NORC, she leads research and analyses centered on identification of factors that increase risk for loneliness and individual and environmental sources of changes in loneliness. Her publications include more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.

Louise acts as a co-investigator on the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), a National Institute on Aging funded panel study of health and social factors among older adults in the United States. Additionally, she is the Principal Investigator of NSHAP’s COVID-19 supplemental study, which ran from 2020 to 2021. She also consults on NIA-funded NSHAP-related projects that explore the role of social factors in the diabetes disease course and another that extends NSHAP into a nationally representative sample of LGBT older adults.

Louise is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and the American Society on Aging. She is an international speaker and served as an expert witness for the solitary confinement case, Ashker v. Governor of California, 2015. Louise is a founding member of the International Loneliness and Isolation Research Network (ILINK), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the national Foundation for Social Connection.

Joshua Gottlieb is an economist and Professor at the University of Chicago, in the Harris School of Public Policy. He is Co-Director of the Becker-Friedman Institute’s Health Economics Initiative and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Gottlieb is an expert on the economics of the healthcare system, including administrative costs, the geography of healthcare, healthcare labor markets, the organization of insurance markets, and physician behavior. His research spans health, labor, urban, and public economics.

Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012. He has published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and American Economic Review. His research has been recognized by the International Health Economics Association with the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the National Tax Association with its Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Gottlieb’s research focuses on questions directly relevant to public policy. He is a member of the Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Commission for the State of Illinois. He has written policy proposals and opinion columns that have influenced economic policy in the United States and Canada, and his research is regularly cited by leading policymakers.

Gottlieb is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and a member of the Journal of Economic Literature’s Board of Editors. He was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics.