Ananth Seshadri
Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Ananth Seshadri is professor and chair of the department of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he specializes in macroeconomics and public finance. He has written on the causes and consequences of demographic change and the effects of technological change in accounting for various demographic patterns. His research has appeared in leading economics journals, including The American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Political Economy. He was awarded a research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006. He has received several competitive research grants from the National Science Foundation, and from the National Institute of Aging. His undergraduate degree is from BITS Pilani, India and his Ph.D. is from the University of Rochester.
Projects
- UM22-18 : Understanding Racial Disparities in Financial Preparedness for Retirement
- UM21-Q4: Estimating the Impact of Missing Totalization Agreements
- UM20-07: Estimating the Macroeconomic Effects of Each Totalization Agreement
- UM19-Q2: Estimating the Effects of the Totalization Agreements
- UM18-Q5: A Meta-Analysis of the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate
- UM17-03: Understanding Earnings, Labor Supply and Retirement Decisions
- UM16-06: The Interaction Between Consumption and Health in Retirement
- UM13-Q1: Uncovering the Relationship Between Real Interest Rates and Economic Growth
- UM14-03: Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transfers.
- UM13-11: The Assets and Liabilities of Cohorts: The Antecedents of Retirement Security
- UM13-01: Health Insurance and Retirement Decisions
- UM12-09: The Interplay of Wealth, Retirement Decisions, Policy and Economic Shocks
- UM11-12: The Influence of Public Policy on Health, Wealth and Mortality
- UM10-19: New Explorations of Health and Wealth
- UM09-04: What Replacement Rates Should Households Use?
- UM08-01: Are All Americans Saving Adequately for Retirement
- UM07-12: Children and Household Wealth
Publications
- Understanding Racial Disparities in Financial Preparedness for Retirement (Research Brief)
- Understanding Racial Disparities in Financial Preparedness for Retirement (Working Paper)
- Estimating the Impact of Missing Totalization Agreements (Research Brief)
- Estimating the Impact of Missing Totalization Agreements (Working Paper)
- Estimating the Macroeconomic Effects of Each Totalization Agreement (Research Brief)
- Estimating the Macroeconomic Effects of Each Totalization Agreement (Working Paper)
- Estimating the Effects of the Totalization Agreements (Research Brief)
- Estimating the Effects of the Totalization Agreements (Working Paper)
- Children and Household Wealth (2007 RRC)
- Health and Wealth In a Lifecycle Model (2013 RRC)
- 2019 RDRC Meeting: A Meta-analysis of the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate (2019 RDRC)
- A Meta-Analysis of the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate (Research Brief)
- A Meta-Analysis of the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate (Working Paper)
- Understanding Earnings, Labor Supply, and Retirement Decisions (Research Brief)
- Understanding Earnings, Labor Supply, and Retirement Decisions (Working Paper)
- The Interaction between Consumption and Health in Retirement (Research Brief)
- The Interaction between Consumption and Health in Retirement (Working Paper)
- Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transfers (Research Brief)
- Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transfers (Working Paper)
- Uncovering the Relationship between Real Interest Rates and Economic Growth (Research Brief)
- Uncovering the Relationship between Real Interest Rates and Economic Growth (Working Paper)
- Health Insurance and Retirement Decisions (Research Brief)
- The Assets and Liabilities of Cohorts: The Antecedents of Retirement Security (Research Brief)
- The Assets and Liabilities of Cohorts: The Antecedents of Retirement Security (Working Paper)
- Health Insurance and Retirement Decisions (Working Paper)
- Health and Wealth In a Lifecycle Model (Conference Paper)
- The Interplay of Wealth, Retirement Decisions, Policy and Economic Shocks (Research Brief)
- The Interplay of Wealth, Retirement Decisions, Policy and Economic Shocks (Working Paper)
- The Influence of Public Policy on Health, Wealth and Mortality (Research Brief)
- The Influence of Public Policy on Health, Wealth and Mortality (Working Paper)
- Health and Wealth in a Life-Cycle Model (Research Brief)
- Health and Wealth in a Life-Cycle Model (Working Paper)
- What Replacement Rates Should Households Use? (Research Brief)
- What Replacement Rates Should Households Use? (Working Paper)
- Are All Americans Saving 'Optimally' for Retirement? (Research Brief)
- Are All Americans Saving ‘Optimally’ for Retirement? (Working Paper)
- Are All Americans Saving 'Optimally' for Retirement? (Conference Paper)
- Children and Household Wealth (Working Paper)
- Children and Household Wealth (Conference 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