John Laitner
MRDRC Director & Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
John Laitner (PhD in economics, Harvard) is director of the University of Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC), research professor at the Institute for Social Research, and professor of economics at the University of Michigan. His research interest focuses on macroeconomic theory, long-run growth, and public policy. He has worked with theoretical and empirical models of life-cycle saving and private intergenerational transfers, human capital accumulation and education, technological change, and the national distribution of wealth.
Projects
- UM18-10: Addressing Social Security’s Solvency While Promoting High Labor Force Participation
- UM16-Q3: Financial Security Research Symposium
- UM16-01: Adjusting the Payroll Tax to Promote Longer Careers
- UM12-01: Technological Progress and the Earnings of Older Workers
- UM12-05: New Analysis of HRS Data on Intergenerational Transfers
- UM10-14: New HRS Data on Intergenerational Transfers
- UM07-15: Trends in the Labor Force Participation of Married Women
- UM07-16: Private Pensions and Decisions of When to Retire
- UM06-10: Home Production by Dual Earner Couples and Consumption During Retirement
- UM05-19: Efficiency Gains and Social Security Reform
- UM05-04: Technological Progress and Worker Productivity at Different Ages
- UM04-14: Life-Cycle Saving in Dual-Earner Households
- UM03-02: Lifetime Uncertainty and Social Security Reform
- UM02-03: Endogenous Labor Supply Responses to Social Security Reform
- UM01-05: Modeling the Dynamic Macroeconomic Consequences of Social Security Reform
- UM00-11: Modeling the Macroeconomic Implications of Social Security Reform
Publications
- Validating Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement (2007 RRC)
- Addressing Social Security’s Solvency While Promoting High Labor Force Participation (Research Brief)
- Addressing Social Security’s Solvency While Promoting High Labor Force Participation (Working Paper)
- Adjusting the Payroll Tax to Promote Longer Careers (Research Brief)
- Adjusting the Payroll Tax to Promote Longer Careers (Working Paper)
- Technological Progress and the Earnings of Older Workers (Research Brief)
- Technological Progress and the Earnings of Older Workers (Working Paper)
- Motives for Bequests within the Middle Class (Research Brief)
- Motives for Bequests within the Middle Class (Working Paper)
- Consumption, Retirement and Social Security: Evaluating the Efficiency of Reform that Encourages Longer Careers (Research Brief)
- Intergenerational Transfers in Health and Retirement Study Data (Research Brief)
- Intergenerational Transfers in the Health and Retirement Study Data (Working Paper)
- Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement (Working Paper)
- Trends in the Labor Force Participation of Married Women (Working Paper)
- Home Production by Dual Earner Couples and Consumption During Retirement (Working Paper)
- Consumption, Retirement, and Social Security: Evaluating the Efficiency of Reform with a Life-Cycle Model (Working Paper)
- Technological Progress and Worker Productivity at Different Ages (Conference Paper)
- Social Security Solvency: A Crisis? (Policy Brief)
- Technological Progress and Worker Productivity at Different Ages (Working Paper)
- Valuing Lost Home Production for Dual-Earner Couples (Research Brief)
- Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement (Working Paper)
- Valuing Lost Home Production in Dual-Earner Couples (Working Paper)
- Life-Cycle Saving in Dual Earner Households (Conference Paper)
- Precautionary Saving Over the Lifecycle (Working Paper)
- Transition Paths and Social Security Reform (Working Paper)
- Labor Supply Responses to Social Security (Working Paper)
- Labor Supply Responses to Social Security (Conference Paper)
- Transition Paths and Social Security Reform (Research Brief)
- Secular Changes in Wealth Inequality and Inheritance (Working Paper)
- Wealth Accumulation in the U.S.: Do Inheritances and Bequests Play a Significant Role? (Working Paper)
- Wealth, Inequality, and Altruistic Bequests (Working Paper)
- Modeling the Macroeconomic Implications of Social Security Reform (Working Paper)
- Modeling the Macroeconomic Implications of Social Security Reform (Research Brief)
Researchers by Institution
- AARP
- Abt Associates
- American University
- Arizona State University
- Australian National University
- Bocconi University
- Boston University
- Brookings Institute
- Brown University
- California State University
- Carleton University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- City College of New York (CUNY)
- City University of New York
- Claremont Graduate University
- Columbia University
- Concordia University-Canada
- Copenhagen Business School
- Cornell University
- Dartmouth College
- Duke University
- European Commission
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneanapolis
- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
- Federal Reserve Bank-Richmond
- Federal Reserve Bank-San Francisco
- Federal Reserve Board
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
- Florida State University
- George Washington University
- Georgetown University
- Goethe University
- Harvard University
- HEC Montréal
- Imperial College London
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- Ithaca College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kyoto University
- Louisiana State University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mathematica Policy Research
- Max Planck Institute
- Michigan State University
- National Institute on Aging
- National University of Singapore
- New School of Social Research
- New York University
- Occidental College
- Ohio State University
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Other
- Pennsylvania State University
- Princeton
- Purdue University
- RAND Corporation
- Social Security Administration
- Southern University and A&M College
- Stanford University
- SUNY-Buffalo
- SUNY-Stony Brook
- Syracuse University
- Texas A&M University
- Texas Tech University
- The College of William & Mary
- Tilburg University
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Universidad de Chile
- University College London
- University of Alabama
- University of Arkansas
- University of Bristol
- University of California-Berkeley
- University of California-Davis
- University of California-Irvine
- University of California-Los Angeles
- University of California-San Diego
- University of Cambridge
- University of Chicago
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- University of Colorado Denver
- University of Essex
- University of Frankfort
- University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability
- University of New South Wales
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Oregon
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas
- University of Victoria
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Urban Institute
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wayne State University
- Wellesley College
- Williams College
- Yale University