Sheila R. Zedlewski
Director, Income and Benefits Policy Center
The Urban Institute
Background
Sheila Zedlewski is the Director of The Urban Institute’s Income and Benefits Policy Center, which houses about 20 research associates who evaluate the generation and distribution of income. She is a specialist in the areas of income transfer policy, employee benefits, aging and the use of microsimulation to forecast and analyze income transfer and health benefits policies. Ms. Zedlewski directs and participates in projects evaluating trends in employment-based retiree health insurance and the effects of government programs on poverty. She has participated in a wide variety of projects focused on retirement policy and the needs of the elderly in the 21st century, including projections of the number and characteristics of the elderly population in 2030. She has employed numerous micro-level databases in her research, including the Health and Retirement Survey, the Retirement History Survey, and the Pension and Health Supplements to the Current Population Surveys.
Ms. Zedlewski earned her B.S. in Psychology and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh and her M.P.A in Urban Affairs and Economics from American University.
Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research
Completed
"How Many Struggle to Get By in Retirement?" (with Barbara A. Butrica and Dan Murphy), Working Paper, #2007-27, December 2007.
"Reform Model Two of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security: Distributional Outcomes Under Different Economic and Behavioral Assumptions" (with Melissa M. Favreault, Joshua H. Goldwyn, Karen E. Smith, Lawrence H. Thompson and Cori E. Uccello), Working Paper #2004-19, August 2004.
Selected Publications
- Zedlewski, Sheila and Linda Giannarelli. 1995. "The Role of TRIM2 Microsimulation Model in Policy Development." In the Proceedings of the American Statistical Association (August).
- Zedlewski, Sheila. 1993. "Retirement Income Security Models: Past, Present, and Future." prepared for the Public Trustees of Social Security and Medicare Boards, Measuring Future Income Security and Health Care Expenditures for the Aged and Disabled.
- Zedlewski, Sheila, Robin Barnes, Martha Burt, Timothy McBride and Jack Meyer. 1990. The Needs for the Elderly in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press.
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