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Erik Meijer
Economist
RAND

Erik Meijer (M.A., Econometrics, University of Groningen; Ph.D., Social Sciences, Leiden University) is an economist at RAND who specializes in econometric modeling. His research portfolio includes a variety of topics in economics, econometrics and statistics, e.g., preference heterogeneity and individual choices in labor supply, housing demand, and travel demand; sample selectivity; measurement error in earnings; the measurement of health and financial literacy; and portfolio composition in retirement accounts and direct stock holding. He is the lead researcher on a project investigating the quality of wealth data in the HRS.



Associated Research Projects
 
UM12-13:  Investment Decisions in Retirement: the role of expectations, health risk and pension benefits
UM11-16:  An Analysis of the Representativeness of the Low-Income Population in the HRS and SIPP