Senior Research Economist

Laura D. Quinby is a senior research economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. She conducts research on state and locally administered retirement programs – including pensions, disability and retiree health insurance, and state initiatives to expand private-sector coverage – as well as Social Security.  Quinby earned a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University in the fields of labor economics and public finance. Her work appears in academic journals, such as the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, as well as issue briefs that are widely cited by policymakers and the media.