Susann Rohwedder is a senior economist at RAND, and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research focuses on the economics of aging. With the overarching goal of improving the health, well-being and financial security of the older population, she has conducted studies in health economics (e.g., prevalence and lifetime risk of dementia, long-term care use and out-of-pocket medical expenditures;), life-cycle economics (e.g., consumption, retirement spending risk, adequacy of retirement resources, old-age poverty), demography (trends in life expectancy, differential survival), and survey methods and data quality (measurement error, elicitation of subjective expectations).
Dr. Rohwedder has published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Demography, Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences and the Journal of Health Economics, among others. She has been affiliated with the Michigan Disability and Retirement Research Center for over 20 years, and now serves as its Director for Strategic Planning. Dr. Rohwedder is also a research fellow of the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (NETSPAR) in the Netherlands. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Western Economic Association International, and is associate editor of the Journal of the Economics of Ageing. She holds a PhD in economics from University College London, and Master’s degrees from the University of Warwick and the Sorbonne.