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Italo López García

Economist, RAND Corporation
Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
López García's research interests include labor economics and development economics, with a focus on the study of the determinants of human capital investments over the life cycle.

Nicole Maestas

Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Director, NBER’s Retirement and Disability Research Center
Maestas's research investigates work capacity among older individuals and people with disabilities, working conditions in the American labor force, the Medicaid and Medicare programs, and the opioid epidemic.

Kathleen McGarry

Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Co-Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study
Research Associate, NBER
McGarry research focuses on the economic aspects of aging with particular attention paid to public and private transfers, including the transfer of resources within families. She has studied issues related to health insurance, long- term care insurance, and medical expenditures as well as the role played by families in providing insurance and supporting their least well-off members.

Alexandra Mitukiewicz

PhD candidate in sociology and social policy, Harvard University
Mitukiewicz's research centers on labor market inequality and policy, with a focus on aging and work, and work-family policy.

Kathleen J. Mullen

Senior Economist and the Director of the RAND Center for Disability Research
Mullen's research addresses intersections between health and work, including the effects of health on employment and the role of job demands and working conditions in determining health status and labor force participation, particularly at older ages. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Giacomo Pasini

Professor in econometrics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Pasini's research interests are in economics of aging, health economics, and household finance. After obtaining a PhD in economics in Venice, he moved to Utrecht for a postdoc period. He had visiting appointments at Stanford, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Groningen University, and University of St. Gallen.

Paul Pierson

John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley
Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of American Democracy
Pierson's teaching and research areas include the fields of American politics and public policy, comparative political economy, and social theory.

Matthew M. Piszczek

Assistant Professor of Management in the Mike Ilitch School of Business, Wayne State University
 Piszczek's research focuses on work- life and age- related human resource management practices and their implications for employers and employees. He holds a PhD in industrial relations and Human Resources from Michigan State University.

Susann Rohwedder

Senior Economist at RAND and Associate Director of the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.
Rohwedder's research focuses on the economics of aging in the areas of household consumption and saving behavior, financial security of households, retirement, long- term care, the prevalence and cost of dementia, and individuals’ expectation formation. She holds a PhD in economics from University College London.

Luca Salerno

Researcher at the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy

Salerno's research interests focus on social policy and health developments. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the Technical University of Munich.

John B. Shoven

Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University
Shoven is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He specializes in public finance and corporate finance and has published on Social Security, health economics, corporate and personal taxation, mutual funds, pension plans, economic demography, and applied general equilibrium economics.

Sita Nataraj Slavov

Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University
Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Slavov's research focuses on public finance and the economics of aging, including issues relating to older people’s work decisions, Social Security, and tax reform. She previously served as a senior economist specializing in public finance issues at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers and a member of the 2019 Social Security Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods.
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Beth C. Truesdale

Research Fellow, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Visiting Scientist, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Dr. Truesdale is a sociologist whose research focuses on inequalities in work and aging, the future of retirement, and the effects of social institutions and public policies on Americans’ well-being. 

John G. Watson

Lecturer in finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Watson's current research focuses on life- cycle models and what they tell us about preparing for our retirement years. He holds a PhD in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.