Joseph F. Quinn
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Boston College
Background
Joseph Quinn is a Professor of Economics at Boston College and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He has done extensive research on aging issues. His work has covered the economics of aging with emphasis on the economic status of the elderly, Social Security reform, the determinants of the individual retirement decision, and trends and patterns of labor force withdrawal among older Americans. Professor Quinn's work using the Retirement History Survey from the 1970s was summarized in Passing the Torch: The Influence of Economic Incentives on Work and Retirement (1990) co-authored by Richard Burkhauser and Daniel Myers. He is now working with the Health and Retirement Survey, analyzing the nature and timing of retirement since the 1990s. Professor Quinn has served on numerous boards and was co-chair of the Technical Panel on Trends and Issues in Retirement Savings for President Clinton's 1994-95 Advisory Council on Social Security.
Dr. Quinn received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research
Completed
"A Micro-Level Analysis of Recent Increases in Labor Force Participation Among Older Workers" (with Kevin E. Cahill and Michael D. Giandrea), Working Paper, #2008-8, February 2008.
Self Employment and Labor Market Transitions at Older Ages (with Donald Bruce and Douglas Holtz-Eakin), Working Paper, #2000-13, December 2000.
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? (with Gary Burtless), Issue in Brief #11, December 2002.
Selected Publications
- Quinn, Joseph with Kevin E. Cahill and Michael D. Giandrea. 2006. "Retirement Patterns From Career Employment." In The Gerontologist, 514-523. Washington, DC: The Gerontological Society of America.
- Quinn, Joseph with Robert L. Clark. 2005. "The Effects of Pensions on Labor Markets and Retirement." In The Evolving Pension System: Trends, Effects and Proposals for Reform, edited by William G. Gale, Mark J. Warshawsky and John B. Shoven, 77-102. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
- Quinn, Joseph with Robert L. Clark, Richard V. Burkhauser, Marilyn Moon and Timothy M. Smeeding. 2004. The Economics of an Aging Society. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Quinn, Joseph. 2002. "Changing Retirement Trends and Their Impact on Elderly Entitlement Programs." In Policies for an Aging Society, edited by Stuart H. Altman and David Shactman, 293-315. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Quinn, Joseph with Gary Burtless. 2001. "Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work among Older Americans." In Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce, edited by Peter Budetti, Richard Burkhauser, Janice Gregory and Allan Hunt, 375-415. Kalamazoo, MI: The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
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