Anthony Webb
Research Economist
Anthony Webb, Ph.D., is a research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Dr. Webb joined the Center's staff in 2005. Previously, he was a Senior Research Analyst at the International Longevity Center-USA. He earned his doctorate in economics from the University of California, San Diego in 2001. He holds a B.A. in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham (1975) and an M.A. in economics from the University of Manchester (1994). Prior to commencing his doctorate, Dr. Webb was employed as an economic adviser to the British government where he provided policy advice on the taxation of personal savings.
Dr. Webb's research interests include the impact of pension type on the age of retirement, the financing of long-term care, the management of the process of asset decumulation, and the impact of bargaining within the household on asset allocation and asset decumulation. Since joining the ILC, his work has been supported by Boston College's Steven H. Sandell Grant Program for Junior Scholars in Retirement Research.
His published work includes an investigation of the impact of pension type on the age of retirement and a number of studies of the role of annuities in managing retirement asset decumulation.
Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research
Completed
"When Should Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits?" (with Steven A. Sass and Wei Sun), Issue in Brief, #8-4, March 2008.
"Health Care Costs Drive Up the National Retirement Risk Index" (with Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Dan Muldoon), Issue in Brief, #8-3, February 2008.
"Pension Wealth and Income: 1992, 1998, and 2004" (with Olga Sorokina and Dan Muldoon), Issue in Brief, #8-1, January 2008.
"Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? Ignorance or Caddishness?" (with Steven A. Sass and Wei Sun), WP#2007-17, October 2007.
"Evaluating the Advanced Life Deferred Annuity - An Annuity People Might Actually Buy" (with Guan Gong), Working Paper, #2007-15, September 2007.
"Is There Really a Retirement Savings Crisis? An NRRI Analysis" (with Alicia H. Munnell and Francesca Golub-Sass), Issue in Brief, #7-11, August 2007.
"An Annuity People Might Actually Buy" (with Guan Gong and Wei Sun), Issue in Brief, #7-10, July 2007.
"Determinants and Consequences of Bargaining Power in Households" (with Leora Friedberg), Working Paper #2006-13, June 2006.
"A New National Retirement Risk Index" (with Alicia H. Munnell and Luke Delorme), Issue in Brief #48, June 2006.
"Mortality Heterogeneity and the Distributional Consequences of Mandatory Annuitization" (with Guan Gong), Working Paper #2006-11, June 2006.
"Empirical Regularity Suggests Retirement Risks" (with Luke Delorme and Alicia H. Munnell), Issue in Brief #41, January 2006.
"Is Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market a Big Problem?" Issue in Brief #40, January 2006.
"Life is Cheap: Using Mortality Bonds to Hedge Aggregate Mortality Risk" (with Leora Friedberg), Working Paper #2005-13, October 2005.