Timothy Waidmann
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Timothy Waidmann is a senior fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute. He has over 20 years of experience designing and conducting studies on varied health policy topics, including disability and health among the elderly; Medicare and Medicaid policy; disability and employment; public health and prevention; health status and access to health care in vulnerable populations; health care utilization among high-cost, high-risk populations; geographic variation in health care needs and utilization; and the relationships between health and a wide variety of economic and social factors. Waidmann’s publications based on these studies have appeared in high-profile academic and policy journals. He has also been involved in several large-scale federal evaluation studies of health system reforms, assuming a central role in the design and execution of the quantitative analyses for those evaluations.
Before joining Urban in 1996, Waidmann was assistant professor in the School of Public Health and postdoctoral fellow in the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan in 1991.
Projects
- UM19-01: Trends in Disability and the Use of Disability Insurance
- UM18-07: Local Economic Hardship and Its Role in Life Expectancy Trends
- UM17-19: The Implications of Differential Trends in Mortality for Social Security Policy
- UM14-11: Differential Mortality Trends and Social Security Policy.
- UM12-15: Estimates of the Potential Insurance Value of Disability Insurance for Individuals with Mental Health Impairments
- UM10-02: The Social Security Early Retirement Benefit as Safety Net
- UM09-01: Reconciling Findings on the Employment Impact of Disability Insurance
- UM07-08: Estimating the Health Effects of Changes in Retirement Age
- UM04-06: Using a Structural Retirement Model to Simulate the Effect of Changes to the OASDI and Medicare Programs
- UM00-13: Disability Benefits as Social Insurance: Tradeoffs between Screening Stringency and Benefit Generosity in Optimal Program Design
- UM99-Q2: Health Limitations and Early Retirement
Publications
- Recent Trends in Disability and the Implications for Use of Disability Insurance (Research Brief)
- Recent Trends in Disability and the Implications for Use of Disability Insurance (Working Paper)
- Estimating the Health Effects of Retirement (2007 RRC)
- Reconciling Findings on the Employment Effect of Disability Insurance (2010 RRC)
- 2019 RDRC Meeting: Trends in Disability and the Use of Disability Insurance (2019 RDRC)
- Local Economic Hardship and Its Role in Life Expectancy Trends (Research Brief)
- Local Economic Hardship and Its Role in Life Expectancy Trends (Working Paper)
- The Implications of Differential Trends in Mortality for Social Security Policy (Conference Paper)
- The Implications of Differential Trends in Mortality for Social Security Policy (Working Paper)
- The Implications of Differential Trends in Mortality for Social Security Policy (Research Brief)
- Estimates of the Potential Insurance Value of Disability Insurance for Individuals with Mental Health Impairments (Research Brief)
- Estimates of the Potential Insurance Value of Disability Insurance for Individuals with Mental Health Impairments (Working Paper)
- The Social Security Early Retirement Benefit as Safety Net (Research Brief)
- Reconciling Findings on the Employment Effect of Disability Insurance (Research Brief)
- Reconciling Findings on the Employment Effect of Disability Insurance (Working Paper)
- The Social Security Early Retirement Benefit as Safety Net (Working Paper)
- Reconciling Findings on the Employment Effect of Disability Insurance (Conference Paper)
- Estimating the Health Effects of Retirement (Working Paper)
- Estimating the Health Effects of Retirement (Conference Paper)
- Using a Structural Retirement Model to Simulate the Effect of Changes to the OASDI and Medicare Programs (Research Brief)
- Using a Structural Retirement Model to Simulate the Effects of Changes to the OASDI and Medicare Programs (Working Paper)
- Using a Structural Retirement Model to Simulate Effects of Changes to the OASDI and Medicare Programs (Conference Paper)
- Disability Benefits as Social Insurance: Tradeoffs Between Screening Stringency and Benefit Generosity in Optimal Program Design (Working Paper)
- Health Limitations and Early Retirement (Research Brief)
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