Olivia S. Mitchell

Olivia S. Mitchell
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Economics
Institutions	The Wharton School

Olivia S. Mitchell (born 1953) is an American economist and International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor and Chair of the Department of Insurance and Risk Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a leading academic in the field of pension and social security, and she directs the Pension Research Council, the oldest U.S. center devoted to scholarship and policy-relevant research on retirement security.^[1] She also heads Wharton’s Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Security.

Career

Mitchell joined The Wharton School in 1993, having served from 1978 to 1993 as a professor at Cornell University; she also visited Harvard, Goethe University, Singapore Management University, and the University of New South Wales. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wells Fargo Advantage Funds and is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has served on the Advisory Board to the Singaporean Central Provident Fund, the Executive Board of the American Economic Association and chaired the CSWEP (Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession). In 2001 she served on the bipartisan President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. She has worked as a co-Principal Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study for two decades, and she sits on the Executive Committee of the University of Michigan’s Retirement Research Center.

Education

Mitchell earned her BA in Economics with honors from Harvard University and her MS and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She also received honorary degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of St. Gallen.

Works

Mitchell has published multiple articles and books on pensions, social security reform, and retirement security, and she has also worked on financial literacy. The work is highly regarded: in 2008 she was awarded the Roger F. Murray Prize from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance; that year she also received the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. In 2007 she received the Fidelity Pyramid Research Institute Prize for her co-authored study on financial literacy. In 2003 she received the Premio Internazionale Dell'Istituto Nazionale Delle Assicurazioni awarded at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, ex aqueo Elsa Fornero, and in 1999 her co-authored work received the Paul A. Samuelson Award for Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security from TIAA-CREF.

Selected publications

• John Ameriks and Olivia S. Mitchell, eds. Recalibrating Retirement Spending and Saving. Oxford University Press. 2008.
• Brigitte Madrian, Olivia S. Mitchell, & Beth Soldo, eds. Redefining Retirement. Oxford University Press, 2007. (Selected as Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton.)
• Robert S. Clark and Olivia S. Mitchell. Reinventing the Retirement Paradigm. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Olivia S. Mitchell and Stephen P. Utkus, eds. Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Olivia S. Mitchell and Kent Smetters. The Pension Challenge: Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security. Oxford University Press. 2003.
• Jeffrey Brown, Olivia S. Mitchell, James Poterba, and Mark Warshawsky. The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement. MIT Press, 2001.
• Olivia S. Mitchell and Hustead, Edwin. Pensions in the Public Sector. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
• Fields, Gary S. and Olivia S. Mitchell. Retirement, Pensions, and Social Security. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984.

References

1. ^ The Pension Research Council

External links

• The Pension Research Council
• The Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research
• The Wharton School Faculty webpage

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