Staff Profiles
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Michael HurdSanta Monica Office Director, Center for the Study of Aging; Senior Economist EducationPh.D. in economics, University of California at Berkeley; M.S. in statistics, University of California at Berkeley; B.S. in electrical engineering, University of Utah |
Research Focus
Aging and the elderly; savings, wealth, and retirement; Social Security; U.S. labor markets; economics of aging
RAND Research Areas
Recent Projects
- Changes in Consumption and Activities at Retirement sponsored by SSA, 2003-2004
- Intergenerational Financial Transfers sponsored by NIA, 2003-2008
- Consumption and Well-Being at Older Ages sponsored by SSA, 2004-2005
- Probabilistic Thinking and Economic Behavior, (Co-PI) sponsored by NIA, 2005-2007
- Financial Security in Retirement sponsored by Department of Labor, 2005-2006
Selected Publications
Heiss, Florian, Axel Boersch-Supan, and Michael D. Hurd, Healthy, Wealthy and Knowing Where to Live: Trajectories of Health, Wealth and Living Arrangements among the Oldest Old, In: Analyses in the Economics of Aging, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005
Michael D. Hurd et al., "The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirement and Social Security Claiming", Journal of Applied Econometrics 19, 2004
Peter Adams et al., "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise? Tests for Direct Causal Paths Between Health and Socioeconomic Status", Journal of Econometrics 112(1), 2003
Michael D. Hurd and Kathleen McGarry, "The Predictive Validity of Subjective Probabilities of Survival", The Economic Journal 112, 2002
Michael Hurd, Comment on Health Events, Health Insurance and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey, (by Mark McClellan) in D. Wise, ed., Frontiers in the Economics of Aging, The University of Chicago Press, 1998
Michael Hurd, Comment on Projecting the Future Size and Health Status of the U.S. Elderly Population (by Kenneth Manton, Burt Singer and Eric Stallard) in Studies in the Economics of Aging, The University of Chicago Press, 1994
Michael Hurd, Comment on The Impact of the Demographic Transition on Government Spending, (by John Shoven, Michael Topper and David Wise) in Studies in the Economics of Aging, The University of Chicago Press, 1994
Michael Hurd, Comment on The Dynamics of Housing Demand by the Elderly: User Cost Effects, (by C. Ai, J. Feinstein, D. McFadden, and H. Pollakowski) in Issues in the Economics of Aging, The University of Chicago Press, 1990
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