Location Tempe, Arizona, United States Regions Greater Phoenix Area, Western US Gender Male
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Dan is a microeconomist whose research blends economic theory and econometrics to study how public and private policies influence decision-making. His recent work levers “big data” and novel blends of surveys and experiments to gain insight into the quality of spending and saving choices, especially in the years leading up to and after retirement.
Dan’s prior work on insurance choices in retirement received the 2009 iHEA Arrow award for the best paper in health economics.
Dan is the Rondthaler Family Professor of Economics at Arizona State University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dan spent the first part of his academic career at the University of Michigan and remains a Faculty Associate of its Survey Research Center where he helps oversee a project to develop new measures of economic activity from the financial records of millions of individuals.
His research on the economics of retirement has led to appointments to the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Social Science and Population Studies Section, and to the Executive Committee of the Social Security Administration’s Retirement Research Center. Dan has a BA in political science from Williams College, a MA in Public Policy from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pennsylvania. Junior year in high school, Dan was the only competitor in Madison, Wisconsin city diving championship. He won!
