Bio

Michael Hurd received a Masters Degree in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.  He has published papers on 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 (particularly mortality risk), 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.  He served on the Technical Panel of Experts (1990) and the Panel of Experts (1991) to the Social Security Advisory Council; on the Advisory Committee for the World Bank Old-Age Security Study; on the Panel on Retirement Income Modeling, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, 1995-1996; on the Panel on Access to Research Data, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, 2003-2005; and on the Panel on Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, 2004-2006.
He is a Co-PI of the Health and Retirement Study and a consultant to the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and to the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). He is a Research Professor with the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging and also a Fellow at the TIAA-CREF Institute. He is the Director of the RAND Center for the Study of Aging and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.