2026 Michael D. Hurd: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	55	1051	931	653	563	251	15688

Overview

Michael D. Hurd is affiliated with the RAND Corporation in the United States. Their research spans various fields within social sciences and health professions, focusing particularly on issues related to retirement, health, and economic behaviors. The main areas of study include Social Sciences and Health Professions, with subfields such as General Health Professions, Demography, Accounting, Social Psychology, and Health.

The scientist's research covers key topics including:

Global Health Care Issues
Retirement, Disability, and Employment
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Health disparities and outcomes
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Employment and Welfare Studies

Their recent papers reflect a focus on retirement, health in later life, and economic psychology, including:

The effects of job characteristics on retirement (2020), published in Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance
Households' joint consumption spending and home production responses to retirement in the US (2021), published in Review of Economics of the Household
Saving regret and procrastination (2022), published in Journal of Economic Psychology
Trends in Health in Midlife and Late Life (2021), published in Journal of Human Capital
Identifying early predictors of cognitive impairment and dementia in a large nationally-representative US sample (2024), published in Alzheimer's & Dementia

Frequent co-authors include Susann Rohwedder, Péter Hudomiet, Axel Börsch-Supan, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, and Delia Bugliari. The scientist has published multiple papers collaboratively with these researchers, indicating ongoing work in related fields.

Publication venues where this researcher has contributed frequently include:

Deep Blue (University of Michigan)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Pensions Economics and Finance
Journal of Economic Psychology
Review of Economics of the Household

Michael D. Hurd has also produced several books published by RAND Corporation eBooks. These include documentation and analytical texts concerning longitudinal files and studies on aging, such as:

RAND HRS Longitudinal File 2018 (V2) Documentation: Includes 1992-2018 (Final Release) (2022)
RAND HRS Longitudinal File 2020 (V1) Documentation: Includes 1992-2020 (Early Release) (2023)
The Age Profile of Life-Satisfaction After Age 65 in the U.S. (2020)
Spending Trajectories After Age 65: Variation by Initial Wealth (2022)

Best Publications

Monetary Costs of Dementia in the United States

Michael D. Hurd;Michael D. Hurd;Paco Martorell;Adeline Delavande;Adeline Delavande;Kathleen J. Mullen

1863
Citations
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Tests for Direct Causal Paths between Health and Socioeconomic Status

Peter Adams;Michael D Hurd;Daniel L McFadden;Angela Merrill

998
Citations
Research on the Elderly: Economic Status, Retirement, and Consumption and Saving

Michael D Hurd

842
Citations
Mortality Risk and Bequests

Michael D. Hurd

838
Citations
The Predictive Validity of Subjective Probabilities of Survival

Michael D. Hurd;Kathleen McGarry

640
Citations
Evaluation of the Subjective Probabilities of Survival in the Health and Retirement Study

Michael D. Hurd;Kathleen McGarry

616
Citations
Effects of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession on American Households

Michael D Hurd;Michael D Hurd;Michael D Hurd;Susann Rohwedder

577
Citations
Savings of the Elderly and Desired Bequests

Michael D Hurd

529
Citations
Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old: An Overview of the AHEAD Study

Beth J. Soldo;Michael D. Hurd;Willard L. Rodgers;Robert B. Wallace

442
Citations
The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Anticipated and Actual Declines in Spending at Retirement

Michael D. Hurd;Susann Rohwedder

369
Citations
Medical insurance and the use of health care services by the elderly

Michael D. Hurd;Kathleen McGarry

297
Citations
Subjective Probabilities in Household Surveys

Michael D. Hurd

291
Citations
The effects of subjective survival on retirement and Social Security claiming

Michael D. Hurd;James P. Smith;Julie M. Zissimopoulos

273
Citations
Stock Market Expectations of Dutch Households

Michael D Hurd;Maarten van Rooij;Joachim Winter;Joachim Winter

232
Citations
The Joint Retirement Decision of Husbands and Wives

Michael D Hurd

221
Citations
Monetary costs of dementia in the United States.

Zhou Yang;Pei-Jung Lin;Allan Levey

220
Citations
The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirement and Social Security Claiming

Michael D. Hurd;James P. Smith;Julie M. Zissimopoulos

216
Citations
Consequences Of Health Trends And Medical Innovation For The Future Elderly

Dana P. Goldman;Baoping Shang;Jayanta Bhattacharya;Alan M. Garber

205
Citations
Estimation in truncated samples when there is heteroscedasticity

Michael Hurd

199
Citations
The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data

Michael D. Hurd;Susann Rohwedder

185
Citations
Individual Subjective Survival Curves

Li Gan;Michael Hurd;Daniel McFadden

174
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James P. Smith Princeton University

Daniel McFadden University of California, Berkeley

Kathleen McGarry Stony Brook University

Michael J. Boskin Stanford University

Robert J. Willis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

David A. Wise Harvard University

Jay Bhattacharya Stanford University

Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California

Joachim Winter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Andrew M. Parker RAND Corporation

External Links

Personal website of Michael D. Hurd

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