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Dr. Thomas L. Steinmeier

Professor

Department of Economics
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas 79409-1014

Faculty Office: 259 Holden Hall
Phone: 806.742.2466 ext 241
E-mail: thomas.steinmeier@ttu.edu

Link to Dr. Steinmeier's web page

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 1975
B.S., Northwestern University, 1969

Research Interests

Pensions, social security, and retirement decisions. Econometrics.

Courses Offered

ECO 5314: Econometrics I
ECO 5315: Mathematical Economics II

Selected Publications

“Social Security Benefits and U.S. Born,” with Alan Gustman, in George Borjas, editor, Issues in the Economics of Immigration, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. Available as NBER Working Paper 6478 (March 1998).

"Retirement in a Family Context: A Structural Model for Husbands and Wives,” with Alan Gustman, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 2000), forthcoming. 

"PrivatizingSocial Security: First Round Effects of a Generic, Voluntary Privatized U.S. Social Security System," with Alan Gustman, in Martin Feldstein, editor, Privatizing Social Security, Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press (1998), pp. 313-357.

"Retirement Measures in the Health and Retirement Survey," with Alan Gustman and Olivia Mitchell, Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 30, Supplement (1995), pp. S57-S83.

Pension Incentives and Job Mobility, with Alan Gustman. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1995.

"Pension Portability and Labor Mobility: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation," with Alan Gustman, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 50, No. 2 (March 1993), pp. 299-323. 

"The Stampede Toward Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Fact or Fiction?", with Alan Gustman, Industrial Relations, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Spring 1992), pp. 361-369.

"A Structural Retirement Model," with Alan Gustman, Econometrica, Vol. 54, No. 3 (May 1986), pp. 555-584.

"The Effects of Partial Retirement on Wage Profiles of Older Workers," with Alan Gustman, Industrial Relations, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring 1985), pp. 257-265.

"Minimum Hours Constraints and Retirement Behavior," with Alan Gustman, Contemporary Policy Issues, a supplement to Economic Inquiry, No. 3 (April 1983), pp. 77-91.