David Weir
Research Professor and Director, Health and Retirement Study, University of Michigan
David Weir is Research Professor in the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. He is the Principal Investigator of the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal study of over 25,000 persons over age 50 in the United States, which is supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA). He serves on the Executive Committee of the Michigan Retirement Research Center.
Projects
- UM21-17: Assessing the Economic Impact Payment in the Older Population
- UM18-03: How Well Can Medicare Records Identify Seniors with Cognitive Impairment Needing Assistance with Financial Management?
- UM16-11: Cohort Changes in Social Security Benefits and Pension Wealth
- UM15-Q2: Racial Differences in the Use of VA Health Services
- UM12-11: Personality Traits and Economic Preparation for Retirement
- UM11-09: Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis
- UM10-13: Personality, Lifetime Earnings, and Retirement Wealth
- UM08-Q1: Pension Plan Documents from Government Sources
- UM07-06: Extra Help: Take-up of the Social Security Administration’s Low-Income Subsidy Program for Part D of Medicare in 2006.
- UM00-09: Families, Markets and Social Insurance
- UM99-05: The Impact of Widowhood on the Economic Status of Women
Publications
- Assessing the First Economic Impact Payment in the Older Population Using the Health and Retirement Study (Research Brief)
- Assessing the First Economic Impact Payment in the Older Population Using the Health and Retirement Study (Working Paper)
- How Well Can Medicare Records Identify Seniors with Cognitive Impairment Needing Assistance with Financial Management? (Research Brief)
- Take-Up of Medicare Part D and the SSA Subsidy: Early Results from the Health and Retirement Study (2007 RRC)
- Personality, Lifetime Earnings, and Retirement Wealth (2010 RRC)
- How Well Can Medicare Records Identify Seniors with Cognitive Impairment Needing Assistance with Financial Management? (Working Paper)
- Cohort Changes in Social Security Benefits and Pension Wealth (Research Brief)
- Cohort Changes in Social Security Benefits and Pension Wealth (Working Paper)
- Racial Difference in the Use of VA Health Services (Research Brief)
- Racial Difference in the Use of VA Health Services (Working Paper)
- Personality Traits and Economic Preparation for Retirement (Working Paper)
- Personality Traits and Economic Preparation for Retirement (Research Brief)
- Personality Traits and Economic Preparation for Retirement (Conference Paper)
- Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis (Working Paper)
- Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis (Research Brief)
- Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis (Conference Paper)
- Personality, Lifetime Earnings, and Retirement Wealth (Working Paper)
- Personality, Lifetime Earnings, and Retirement Wealth (Research Brief)
- Take-Up of Medicare Part D and the SSA Subsidy: Early Results from the Health and Retirement Study (Working Paper)
- Take-up of Medicare Part D and the SSA Subsidy: Early Results from the Health and Retirement Study. (Conference Paper)
- Widowhood, Divorce, and Loss of Health Insurance Among Near Elderly Women: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (Working Paper)
- The Economic Consequences of Widowhood (Research Brief)
- Informal Caregiving for Diabetes and Diabetic Complications Among Elderly Americans (Working Paper)
- The Economic Consequences of Widowhood (Working Paper)
- Informal Caregiving for Diabetes and Diabetic Complications Among Elderly Americans (Research Brief)
- The Economic Consequences of a Husband’s Death: Evidence from the HRS and AHEAD (Conference Paper)
Researchers by Institution
- AARP
- Abt Associates
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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