Overview
David Knapp is an economist at the University of Southern California and the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics (CESR), based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on Social Security, retirement, and aging economics, with particular attention to how program incentives affect claiming and labor supply decisions.
Key Contributions / Features
- Co-author (with Philip Armour) of "The Consequences of Claiming Social Security Benefits at Age 62" (Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023), which provides matching-based causal estimates of early-claiming consequences for employment, pension liquidation, and wealth.
- Research on retirement income adequacy, benefit claiming dynamics, and health and retirement interactions using HRS and administrative data.
- Affiliated with RAND Corporation and USC's CESR.
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