Overview
Philip Armour is an economist at the RAND Corporation (Santa Monica, CA) specializing in Social Security, disability insurance, and retirement income policy. His research uses administrative and survey data to study how program design shapes claiming behavior, labor supply, and wealth accumulation near retirement.
Key Contributions / Features
- Co-author (with David Knapp) of "The Consequences of Claiming Social Security Benefits at Age 62" (Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023), which uses nearest-neighbor matching on HRS data to establish causal effects of early claiming on work exit, DC liquidation, and lifetime wealth.
- Research on Social Security statement information and DI application behavior (working paper, Cornell University).
- Affiliated with RAND's Labor Markets and Population Health division.
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