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Anthony Webb

Anthony Webb is Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School. He received his Ph.D in Economics from the University of California San Diego. Prior to joining New School, he spent 11 years at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

Webb’s research focuses on asset accumulation and drawdown over the life cycle and the management of post retirement risks. His work includes studies of the value of annuities to retired households, annuitization strategies, the impact of the Social Security earnings test, the structure of employer pension benefits, the interaction between Medicaid long-term care benefits and household saving and insurance decisions, trends in socioeconomic mortality differentials, the impact of adverse selection on the basis of Social Security claim age, and the adequacy of pre-retirement savings. His work has been published in many leading peer reviewed journals and has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the U.S. Social Security Administration, AARP, and the Society of Actuaries, amongst others.