Nahid Tabatabai
Research Associate, Dartmouth College
Dr. Nahid Tabatabai is a Research Associate in Economics at Dartmouth College, where she has worked since August 1998. Dr. Tabatabai received her Ph.D. in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts in 1991. For ten years she was the staff person responsible for the labor and pension sections of the Health and Retirement Study. The HRS is an NIA funded panel study with over 22,000 participants, representing all persons over 50 years of age in the United States, permitting longitudinal analysis over all interview years. It is funded through a cooperative agreement with the University of Michigan, with a subcontract to Dartmouth supporting work on the labor and pension sections. Together with Alan Gustman and Thomas Steinmeier, Dr. Tabatabai has published articles on pensions and other assets held by the retirement age population. Together with Gustman and Steinmeier, she has a newly published book from Harvard University Press entitled
Projects
- UM16-02: The Affordable Care Act as Retiree Health Insurance: Implications for Retirement and Social Security Claiming
- UM15-07: Social Security and Pensions in Veterans’ Wealth and Retirement
- UM14-01: Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: An Exploratory Analysis.
- UM13-07: The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study
- UM12-10: Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Support
- UM11-08: How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study?
- UM11-06: The Effects of Changes in Women’s Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula
- UM10-21: Explaining the Growth in Social Security Benefits among the Retirement Age Population
- UM10-12: Financial Knowledge And Financial Literacy At The Household Level
- UM09-09: How Do Pension Changes Affect Retirement Preparedness?
Publications
- Financial Knowledge and Financial Literacy at the Household Level (2010 RRC)
- The Affordable Care Act as Retiree Health Insurance: Implications for Retirement and Social Security Claiming (Research Brief)
- The Affordable Care Act as Retiree Health Insurance: Implications for Retirement and Social Security Claiming (Working Paper)
- Declining Wealth and Work among Male Veterans in the Health and Retirement Study (Working Paper)
- Declining Wealth and Work among Male Veterans in the Health and Retirement Study (Research Brief)
- Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: An Exploratory Analysis (Working Paper)
- Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: An Exploratory Analysis (Research Brief)
- The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study (Research Brief)
- The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study (Working Paper)
- Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Support (Research Brief)
- Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Support (Working Paper)
- How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study? (Research Brief)
- The Effects of Changes in Women’s Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula (Working Paper)
- The Effects of Changes in Women’s Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula (Research Brief)
- How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study? (Working Paper)
- The Effects of Changes in Women’s Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution under the Social Security Benefit Formula (Conference Paper)
- The Growth in Social Security Benefits Among the Retirement Age Population from Increases in the Cap on Covered Earnings (Working Paper)
- The Growth in Social Security Benefits Among the Retirement Age Population from Increases in the Cap on Covered Earnings (Research Brief)
- Financial Knowledge and Financial Literacy at the Household Level (Research Brief)
- Financial Knowledge and Financial Literacy at the Household Level (Working Paper)
- How Do Pension Changes Affect Retirement Preparedness? The Trend to Defined-Contribution Plans and the Stock Market Decline of 2008-2009 (Research Brief)
- How Do Pension Changes Affect Retirement Preparedness? The Trend to Defined Contribution Plans and the Vulnerability of the Retirement Age Population to the Stock Market Decline of 2008-2009 (Conference Paper)
- How Do Pension Changes Affect Retirement Preparedness? The Trend to Defined Contribution Plans and the Vulnerability of the Retirement Age Population to the Stock Market Decline of 2008-2009 (Working Paper)
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