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The Center and its network of experts possess a breadth of knowledge on retirement issues virtually unmatched in the field. Our researchers include leading scholars at Boston College and at affiliated institutions, such as MIT, The Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Urban Institute. In the eight years since its inception, the Center has established a reputation as an authoritative source of information on all major aspects of the retirement income debate. From the New York Times to the Wall Street Journal, from corporate board rooms to debates on Capitol Hill, the Center is the hub for expertise on this issue.

Douglas A. Wolf

Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies
Syracuse University

Background

Douglas Wolf is the Gerald B. Cramer Professor of Aging Studies in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He also serves as the Associate Director for Aging Studies at the Maxwell School's Center for Policy Research. Professor Wolf is a past Director of the Maxwell Center for Demography and Economics of Aging. His primary research interests are aging and public policy, family demography, quantitative methodology and program evaluation. Prior to joining Syracuse in 1992, Professor Wolf spent ten years at the Urban Institute as a researcher and as Director of the Population Studies Center. He served two years as Acting Leader of the Population Program for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenberg, Austria, spent three years as an economist with the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and was a researcher with Mathematica Policy Research for two years.

Dr. Wolf earned his B.A. in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Pennsylvania.

Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research

Completed
"Linking Benefits to Marital Status: Race and Diminishing Access to Social Security Spouse and Widow Benefits in the U.S." (with Madonna Harrington Meyer and Christine L. Himes), Working Paper, #2004-05, March 2004

"Living Arrangements and Supplemental Security Income Receipt Among the Aged" (with Melissa Favreault), Working Paper, #2004-03, February 2004

Ongoing

"Social Security Income, Housing Consumption, and Housing Adjustment" (with Janet Wilmoth)

Selected Publications

K. Couch, M. Daly, and D. Wolf. 1999. "Time? Money? Both? The Allocation of Resources to Older Parents." Demography 36: 219-232.
B. Soldo, D. Wolf, and J. Henretta. 1999. "Intergenerational Transfers: Blood, Marriage, and Gender Effects on Household Decisions." In James P. Smith and Robert J. Willis, eds., Wealth, Work, and Health. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Wolf, Douglas A., Vicki Freedman, and Beth J. Soldo. 1996. "The Demography of Family Care for the Elderly." In Tamara K. Hareven, ed., Aging and Generational Relations Over The Life Course: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: W de Gruyter.