Robert A. Pollak is Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include economics of the family, price and cost-of-living indexes, and environmental policy. Pollak is the author of more than 70 articles and three books: From Parent to Child: Intrahousehold Allocations and Intergenerational Relations in the United States (1995, with J. Behrman and P. Taubman), Demand System Specification and Estimation (1992, with T. Wales), and The Theory of the Cost-of-Living Index (1989). Pollak served as editor of the International Economic Review from 1976 to 1985. He has also served on the editorial boards of The Review of Economics and Statistics, Demography, The Journal of Economic Literature, Feminist Economics, and Review of Economics of the Household, and as Adviser in Economics to Oxford University Press. A fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and the CESifo Research Network, Pollak has served as a consultant to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, has testified before the Senate Committee on Finance on the Consumer Price Index, and served on the National Academy of Sciences/Committee on the National Statistics panel on Cost-of-Living Indexes. He has served as Senior Consultant to the Economics Initiative of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. From 1997-2007, Pollak co-chaired the MacArthur Foundation Network on the Family and the Economy, an interdisciplinary group of economists, sociologists, and developmental psychologists studying the functioning of families. Pollak was awarded a Fellowship for 1999-2000 by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In 2000 Pollak received the Mindel C. Sheps Award for mathematical demography from the Population Association of America. He was President of the Midwest Economics Association in 2002-2003 and will be president of the Society of Labor Economists in 2009. Pollak holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.