Ph.D. in economics, University of California, Berkeley; M.S. in statistics, University of California, Berkeley; B.S. in electrical engineering, University of Utah
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More ExpertsMichael Hurd is a senior principal researcher at the RAND Corporation, where he directs the RAND Center for the Study of Aging. His research interests cover a wide range of topics in the economics of aging including: the structure of private pensions and Social Security and their effects on retirement decisions; the economic status of the elderly; the determinants of consumption and saving; the use of health care services; methods of assessing uncertainty in a population; bracketing and anchoring effects in the elicitation of economic information; and the relationship between socioeconomic status and mortality. His most recent research focuses on the monetary costs of dementia, and the costs of long-term care. Hurd has a Ph.D. in economics and an M.S. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Hurd, M. D., P. Martorell and K. Langa, "Future Monetary Costs of Dementia in the United States Under Alternative Dementia Prevalence Scenarios.," Journal of Population Ageing, 1(12), 2015
Hurd, Michael; Rohwedder, Susann, "Heterogeneity in Spending Change at Retirement," Journal of the Economics of Aging, (1-2), 2013
Hurd, M., P. Martorell, A. Delavande, K. J. Mullen and K. M. Langa, "Monetary Costs of Dementia in the United States," New England Journal of Medicine, 368(14), 2013
Hurd, M., P. C. Michaud and S. Rohwedder, "The Displacement Effect of Public Pensions on the Accumulation of Financial Assets," Fiscal Studies, 33(1), 2012
Hurd, Michael, "Inter-vivos Giving by Older People in the United States: Who Received Financial Gifts from the Childless," Ageing and Society, 29, 2009
Hurd, Michael; Rohwedder, Susann, "Methodological Innovations in Collecting Spending Data: The HRS Consumption and Activities Mail Survey," Fiscal Studies, 30(3/4), 2009
Hurd, Michael, "Subjective Probabilities in Household Surveys," Annual Review of Economics, 1, 2009
Hurd, M., Hudomiet, P. & Rohwedder, S. , "The Relationship Between Lifetime Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures, Dementia, and Socioeconomic Status in the U.S.," The Journal of the Economics of Aging (forthcoming)
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