Bio

 
Karen E. Smith is a Senior Research Associate at The Urban Institute.
She has over twenty years experience doing micro-simulation modeling in a
social policy environment. She has designed and developed micro-simulation
models for Social Security, taxation, wealth and savings, labor-supply,
charitable giving, health expenditure, student aid, and welfare reform.
Most recently, Ms. Smith was involved with the development of the Social
Security Administration's Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT)
micro-simulation model, the Urban Institute’s Dynamic Simulation of Income
(DYNASIM) micro-simulation model, Social Security Administration’s Policy
Simulation Model (POLISIM). Much of her research focuses on the
distribution of retirement income of baby-boomers compared to today’s
retirees.