Amanda Sonnega
Associate Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Amanda Sonnega is Associate Research Scientist in the Health and Retirement Study program in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Public Health Psychology from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sonnega’s research focuses on topics in health psychology and aging as well as intergenerational transfers.
Projects
- UM24-01: An Intersectional Approach to Retirement Expectations and Timing
- UM23-07: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Effects of COVID-19 on Job Separation and Financial Precarity
- UM23-06: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Job Characteristics and Patterns in Disability Retirement and Social Security Retirement Wealth
- UM22-Q1: Creating a Public Resource: O*NET Job Characteristics Data Set for Use with the Health and Retirement Study and Other Surveys
- UM21-07: The Relationship between Adverse Experiences over the Life Course and Later-life Retirement Due to Disability
- UM18-06: Validity and Reliability of Machine Coding of Occupation & Industry in the Health and Retirement Study
- UM17-Q2: Literature review of characteristics of second-career occupations
- UM16-10: Issue Brief: Occupational Differences in Rates of Cognitive Decline
- UM16-03: Occupational Transitions Among Older Workers
- UM15-01: Changing Work Demands and Compositional Changes in Occupations: Effects on Expected Retirement
- UM12-05: New Analysis of HRS Data on Intergenerational Transfers
- UM10-14: New HRS Data on Intergenerational Transfers
Publications
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Effects of COVID-19 on Employment Disruption and Financial Precarity (Working Paper)
- Creating a Public Resource: O*NET Job Characteristics Data Set for Use with the Health and Retirement Study and Other Surveys (Research Brief)
- The Relationship Between Adverse Experiences Over the Life Course and Early Retirement Due to Disability (Research Brief)
- The Relationship Between Adverse Experiences Over the Life Course and Early Retirement Due to Disability (Working Paper)
- Feasibility and Reliability of Automated Coding of Occupation in the Health and Retirement Study (Research Brief)
- Feasibility and Reliability of Automated Coding of Occupation in the Health and Retirement Study (Working Paper)
- Characteristics of Second-career Occupations: A Review and Synthesis (Research Brief)
- Characteristics of Second-career Occupations: A Review and Synthesis (Working Paper)
- Occupational Transitions at Older Ages: What Moves are People Making? (Research Brief)
- Occupational Transitions at Older Ages: What Moves are People Making? (Working Paper)
- Issue Brief: Occupation, Cognitive Decline and Retirement (Policy Brief)
- Occupations and Work Characteristics: Effects on Retirement Expectations and Timing (Research Brief)
- Occupations and Work Characteristics: Effects on Retirement Expectations and Timing (Working Paper)
- Motives for Bequests within the Middle Class (Research Brief)
- Motives for Bequests within the Middle Class (Working Paper)
- Intergenerational Transfers in the Health and Retirement Study Data (Working Paper)
- Intergenerational Transfers in Health and Retirement Study Data (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