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
"The Case for Investing in Bonds During Retirement" Issue in Brief, #9-17, August 2009.
"Should You Carry a Mortgage into Retirement?" Issue in Brief, #9-15, July 2009.
"How Much Do Households Really Lose By Claiming Social Security at Age 62?" (with Wei Sun), Working Paper #2009-11, April 2009.
"Long-Term Care Costs and the National Retirement Risk Index" (with Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Dan Muldoon), Issue in Brief, #9-7, March 2009.
"What Does It Cost To Guarantee Returns?" (with Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Richard A. Kopcke), Issue in Brief, #9-4, February 2009.
Identifying Local Differences in Retirement Patterns (with Leora Friedberg and Michael Owyang), Working Paper #2008-18, December 2008.
What Effect Do Time Constraints Have on the Age of Retirement? (with Leora Friedberg and Wei Sun), Working Paper #2008-17, December 2008.
How Much Risk is Acceptable? (with Alicia Munnell and Alex Golub-Sass), Issue in Brief, #8-20, November 2008.
"Do Households Have a Good Sense of Their Retirement Preparedness?" (with Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Mauricio Soto), Issue in Brief, #8-11, August 2008.
"How Much Do Older Workers Value Employee Health Insurance?" (with Leora Friedberg and Wei Sun), Issue in Brief, #8-9, July 2008.
"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), Working Paper #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.
Ongoing
"What is the Impact of Foreclosures on Retirement Security?" (with Irena Dushi and Leora Friedberg)
"Does Retirement Saving "Catch-up" When Children Fly the Coop?" (with Norma B. Coe)
"Is the Upsurge in Tenure Breaks for Older Workers a Cause for Concern?" (with Steve Sass and Natalia A. Zhivan)