Working Papers
The New Treaty of Detroit: Are VEBAs Labor’s Way Forward or the Remnants of a Glorious Past?
“The Changing Role of Employer Pensions: Tax Expenditures, Costs and Implications for Middle-Class Elderly” for the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College Conference on “Government Spending on the Elderly,” April 29-30, 2006.
“The Distribution of Early Retirement Leisure: Evidence from the HRS.” Teresa Ghilarducci and Kevin Neuman. February 2005.
“The Effect of the Stock Market Crash on Retirement Decisions.” Sharon Hermes and Teresa Ghilarducci. January 2006.
Research
Biography
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Chair of Economic Policy Analysis and the director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research as of January 2008. Her new book, When I'm Sixty Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, Princeton University Press, investigates how to revive the promise of retirement to working Americans. Ghilarducci taught economics at the University of Notre Dame for 25 years. > Read More
Recent Journal Entry
The 2008 $168 billion stimulus package is better than it would have been without grants to Social Security receipients. Instead of small amounts of money to each houshold we could have put some money to neighborhood schools, fixed our roads and bridges, and boost our national welath. On another matter here are ten books undergraduates should read before they graduate. Read More....
News
On November 20, 2007, Dr. Ghilarducci participated in the Economic Policy Institute's latest "Agenda for Shared Prosperity" event in Washington, DC. At the event, she unveiled a briefing paper, Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, which outlines her vision for combining the best features of traditional defined-benefit pensions and 401(k)-style defined-contribution plans.