Erik Meijer
Education
Overview
Biography
Erik Meijer is an economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Before joining RAND, he was an assistant professor of econometrics at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His primary expertise is econometric modeling, especially measurement error and, more generally, latent variables. Recent work includes the measurement of earnings, health, and financial literacy, and estimating eligibility for a low income subsidy for Medicare Part D. In addition, he has worked on a variety of other topics in economics, econometrics, and statistics, e.g., preference heterogeneity and individual choices in labor supply, housing demand, and travel demand, bias correction and variance estimation in clustered samples, sample selectivity, sampling design, and data quality. Much of his current work relates to the economics of aging, including related topics such as retirement, health, and social security.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- From Understanding to Reducing Health Disparities- A Model-Based Evaluation
- Robust Integration Modeling of Health, Wealth, and Disability
- Investment Decisions in Retirement- the role of expectations, health risk and pension benefits
- Financial Literacy, Retirement Savings Management, and Decumulation
Selected Publications
Meijer, E., Rohwedder, S., & Wansbeek, T., "Measurement error in earnings data: Using a mixture model approach to combine survey and register data," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (forthcoming)
Meijer, E.. Kapteyn, A., & Andreyeva, T., "Internationally comparable health indices," Health Economics, 20:600-619, 2011
Meijer, E., Karoly, L. A., & Michaud, P.-C., "Using matched survey and administrative data to estimate eligibility for the Medicare Part D low-income subsidy program," Social Security Bulletin, 70(2):63-82, 2010
Hung, A. A., Meijer, E., Mihaly, K., & Yoong, J., Building up, spending down: financial literacy, retirement savings management, and decumulation, RAND Corporation (WR-712), 2009
Meijer, E., & Wansbeek, T., "The sample selection model from a method of moments perspective," Econometric Reviews, (26):25-51, 2007
Meijer, E., & Rouwendal, J., "Measuring welfare effects in models with random coefficients," Journal of Applied Econometrics, (21):227-244, 2006
De Haan, J., Leertouwer, E., Meijer, E., & Wansbeek, T., "Measuring central bank independence: A latent variables approach," Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 50:326-340, 2003
Rouwendal, J., & Meijer, E., "Preferences for housing, jobs, and commuting: A mixed logit analysis," Journal of Regional Science, 41:475-505, 2001
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