Susann Rohwedder
Economist
RAND

Susann Rohwedder (Ph.D., Economics, University College London) is an Economist at RAND. Her research focuses on the economics of aging in the areas of household consumption and saving behavior, retirement and expectation formation. She has written on the impact of pension reforms on household saving in the UK (published in the American Economic Review); on the retirement-consumption puzzle; on spending and saving patterns among the older population; and on Social Security expectations. Other papers deal with data quality and survey methods in the Health and Retirement Study. Rohwedder has gained experience in survey methods from her involvement in the design of the HRS Consumption and Activities Mail Survey; a module on consumption for the RAND Internet Panel; and the design of a household survey in Sweden; as well as from attending meetings of the working groups of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Several of Rohwedder’s research activities have an international dimension: she participated in an international savings comparison project; she has ongoing work which compares saving behavior across the U.S. and several European countries; she is also a member of the European Research Training Network on the Economics of Ageing in Europe.