Grants
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for Roundtable Workshop on “Work Options for Mature Americans.” December 8, 2003. $41,716.
Retirement Research Foundation, “Pensions and Health Insurance in Low Wage Labor Markets.” Co-Principal Investigator with Mary Lee. July 2003 - June 2005. $28,000.
Retirement Research Foundation, “Making Retirement Work: Affording Pensions for All Americans.” January 2002-May 2003. $98,911.
Retirement Research Foundation, “Making Retirement Work: Affording Pensions for All Americans.” September 1999-December 2001. $108,812.
Retirement Research Foundation, "American Retirement Income Security: Cooperation or Conflict between Generations, Firms, and Workers?" November 1998-September 1999. $92,395.
Massachusetts Financial Services and Victory Capital Management, “Workplace Practices and Financial Performance.” $40,500 per year since 1999.
Ford Foundation with the University of California (co-PI), "High Performance Pensions." $80,000.
U. S. Department of Labor Grant, "Pension Practices of Innovative Firms - 1993-1994.” $25,000.
U. S. Department of Labor Grant, "Pension Funds and the Financial System - 1991-1992.” $10,000.
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.