Philip Armour
Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School, RAND Corporation
Philip Armour is an economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research spans diverse areas of public policy, including the roles information can play in the Social Security system, employment responses to incentives in the U.S. disability system, how families mix work with food stamp receipt, and definitional issues in measuring trends in income inequality. He earned an M.Sc. in econometrics from the London School of Economics and his Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University.
Projects
- UM23-15: Equity Implications of the Rising Full Retirement Age and Social Security Communications: An Analysis of Past and Future Disparities in the Economic Security of Retirees
- UM22-Q3: The Initial Experiences with the Redesigned Social Security Statement
- UM20-14: The Causes and Consequences of Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use Among Older Americans: A Panel Survey Approach
- UM19-07: How Reliant Are Older Americans on State and Local Government Pensions?
- UM17-05: The Reintroduction of the Social Security Statement and its Effect on Social Security Expectations, Retirement Savings, and Labor Supply Across the Age Distribution
- UM16-09: The Effect of Social Security Information on the Labor Supply of Older Americans
Publications
- The Redesigned Social Security Statement’s Short-Term Impacts on Near Retirees (Research Brief)
- The Redesigned Social Security Statement’s Short-Term Impacts on Near Retirees (Working Paper)
- The Causes and Consequences of Opioid Use among Older Americans: A Panel Survey Approach (Research Brief)
- The Causes and Consequences of Opioid Use among Older Americans: A Panel Survey Approach (Working Paper)
- How Reliant are Older Americans on State and Local Government Pensions? (Research Brief)
- How Reliant are Older Americans on State and Local Government Pensions? (Working Paper)
- 2019 RDRC Meeting: Does Student Loan Forgiveness Drive Disability Application (2019 RDRC)
- The Effect of Social Security Information on the Labor Supply and Savings of Older Americans (Research Brief)
- The Reintroduction of the Social Security Statement and its Effect on Social Security Expectations, Retirement Savings, and Labor Supply across the Age Distribution (Research Brief)
- The Reintroduction of the Social Security Statement and its Effect on Social Security Expectations, Retirement Savings, and Labor Supply across the Age Distribution (Working Paper)
- The Effect of Social Security Information on the Labor Supply and Savings of Older Americans (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