Hugo Benitez-Silva

Research Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Computational Economics, Public Finance

Courses Taught: Labor Economics, Computational Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics

Selected Publications:

• "An Empirical Analysis of the Social Security Disability Application, Appeal, and Award Process," (with M. Buchinsky, H-M. Chan, J. Rust, and S. Sheidvasser) Labour Economics, 6, 147-178, 1999.
• "How Large is the Bias in Self-Reported Disability Status?", (with M. Buchinsky, H-M. Chan, J. Rust, and S. Sheidvasser), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 19-6, 649-670, 2004.
• "The Rationality of Retirement Expectations and the Role of New Information," (with Debra S. Dwyer), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 87-3, 587-592, 2005.
• "Expectation Formation of Older Married Couples and the Rational Expectations Hypothesis," (with Debra S. Dwyer), Labour Economics, Vol. 13-2, 191-218, 2006.
• The Educated Russian's Curse: Returns to Education in the Russian Federation during the 1990s," (with Sofia Cheidvasser), (2007), LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Vol. 21-1, 1-41.
• "The Social Security Earnings Test Revisited: Information, Distortions, and Costs," (with Frank Heiland) (2007). JPAM, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 26-3, 535-566.
• "Expectations in Micro Data: Rationality Revisited " (with Deb Dwyer, Wayne-Roy Gayle, and Tom Muench), Empirical Economics, Vol. 34-2 381-416, 2008.
• "Health Status and Health Dynamics in an Empirical Model of Expected Longevity" (with Huan Ni), Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 27-3 564-584, 2008.
• "Early Claiming of Social Security Benefits and Labor Supply Behavior of Older Americans," (with Frank Heiland) (2006). Forthcoming in Applied Economics.

• "How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process?" (with M. Buchinsky, and J. Rust) NBER WP 10219. Revision Requested by Econometrica.
• "Do Vehicle Recalls Reduce the Number of Accidents? The Case of the U.S. Car Market," (with Yong-Kyun Bae), (2006). Submitted to the Review of Economic and Statistics.
• "Induced Entry Effects of a $1 for $2 Offset in SSDI Benefits," (with M. Buchinsky and J. Rust), revision requested by JPAM, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
• "Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice: An Empirical Analysis," revision requested by the Journal of Applied Econometrics.
• "Dynamic Models of Retirement and Disability," (with M. Buchinsky and J. Rust).
• "The Annuity Puzzle Revisited," 2004.
• "Job Search Behavior of Older Americans," (2006).
• "Micro Determinants of Labor Force Status Among Older Americans," 2000.

• NIH-NIA: 2004-2009.
• Michigan Retirement Research Center: 2001-2002, 2002-2003, and 2005-2006.
• ERIU-RWJ: 2003-2005
• TIAA-CREF Institute: 2001-2002, and 2002-2003
• Steven H. Sandell Grant for Junior Scholars in Retirement Research, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2001-2002.
• Individual Development Award, SUNY-Stony Brook, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006.
• John Perry Miller Summer Grant, Summer 2000.
• Carl Anderson Prize Fellowship, Spring 2000.
• Yale Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 1999.

• Referee for American Economic Review, National Science Foundation, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, Health Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Applied Economics , LABOUR , Fiscal Studies, Journal of Macroeconomics,and Journal of Economic Dyanmics and Control .
• Member, Organizing Committee for the 7th International Conference of the Society of Computational Economics.