Beth Jarosz
Senior Fellow, McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University
Beth Jarosz has more than two decades of experience in demographic and socioeconomic analysis to support evidence-based decisions. Jarosz has published on topics including poverty, mortality, novel estimation techniques, the quality of administrative records, and disclosure avoidance for the 2020 Census. She has participated, as a speaker and as an organizer, in National Academies workshops on the American Community Survey, 2020 Census, and communicating the quality of federal statistics.
Jarosz is currently a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and vice president of the Association of Public Data Users. She has been a senior program director at PRB, overseeing a portfolio of projects tracking subnational demographic, socioeconomic, and health trends. Prior to that she was a researcher at the San Diego Association of Governments. Jarosz received her M.A. in Demographic and Social Analysis from the University of California, Irvine.
Expertise
Aging and Depopulation
Children, Youth, and Families
Labor and the Future of Work
Population Dynamics and Planning
The U.S. Census and Public Data
Email: media@prb.org
Featured News & Insights
Five Things You Can Do to Protect Public Data
Even small actions, taken together, can help strengthen the case for the importance of public data to our shared future.
10 Things to Know About Privacy Protections in the 2020 Census
What data users should know about the effects of new disclosure avoidance procedures in the 2020 Census
What Are the Challenges to Conducting Abortion-Related Research in the United States? 
Two years after the Dobbs decision, researchers are using innovative methods to answer questions about women’s reproductive health.
Census Issues, Impact of Dobbs Decision, and Population Aging Among Highlights of 2024 Population Association of America Conference
PRB staff offer summaries of new research and insightful sessions at the annual demography meeting.
Are Millennials the Unluckiest Generation?
Which generation had the toughest time as young adults?
Could the U.S. Population Shrink?
A better question might be when—not if—the United States will change from a growing to a shrinking population.
Featured Resources
From Boom to Imbalance: How Population Change Is Straining Public Pension Systems in the United States
Population Bulletin vol. 79, no. 1
Who Cares for the Caregivers?
Policy changes could reduce the disproportionate burden of care work on American women, researchers said.
Losing More Ground: Revisiting Young Women’s Well-Being Across Generations
Despite more education and higher earnings, young women in the United States today are faring worse than their mother's and grandmother's generations. Why? (Population Bulletin vo. 77, no. 1)
Adversities in Childhood Can Have Lifelong Repercussions
Even one adverse experience in childhood can be traumatic. Each additional adversity magnifies in impact, creating a significant public health problem.
Disasters Raise Risk of a Homeless Undercount in 2020 Census
The 2020 Census count of people experiencing homelessness takes place in the middle of peak wildfire and hurricane seasons—and the coronavirus pandemic—making a complicated process even more challenging.
Coronavirus and the 2020 Census: Where Should College Students Be Counted?
(2020) Census operations are changing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The U.
Featured Projects
Regional Forecasts for Southern California Association of Governments
PRB supports regional transportation and housing planning for a six-county region in Southern California.
Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
The Center for Public Information on Population Research at PRB helps improve the translation and dissemination of major findings from population dynamics research and the communication and cooperation across the NICHD Population Dynamics Research Centers.
