Professor Geruso’s research centers on economic demography and health. His work has been published in peer-reviewed outlets including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and Demography and has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Vox, The Atlantic, and The Economist. His research has been funded by the Arnold Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others.
Professor Geruso is presently on leave from UT-Austin to serve in the White House as a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, where he advises on issues of health and demography.
Professor Geruso is a faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and holds three bachelor’s degrees from Virginia Tech (engineering, political science, and philosophy) and a PhD in Economics from Princeton. He completed postdoctoral work at Harvard prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Since 2014, he has served on the board of the Research Institute of Compassionate Economics (r.i.c.e.).