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Maryland Population Research Center
2002-2003 Seminar Series

SPEAKER:	John Rust Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
TITLE:	How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process?
DATE:	Fri. Feb 14, 2003
TIME:	12:00 Noon
PLACE:	1101 Art-Sociology University of Maryland, College Park Campus
John Rust received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1983. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and Yale University before joining the Maryland faculty in 2001. His major research interests are numerical dynamic programming and retirement behavior. He has written papers on a broad range of topics including investment, Social Security and Medicare, the nuclear power industry, and auctions. Dr. Rust has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1993. His publications include "Stationary Equilibrium in a Market for Durable Assets" (1985), "Optimal Replacement of GMC Bus Engines: An Empirical Model of Harold Zurcher" (1987), "Using Randomization to Break the Curse of Dimensionality" (1997), and "How Social Security and Medicare Affect Retirement Behavior in a World with Incomplete Markets" (with Chris Phelan, 1997). All of these articles have appeared in the journal Econometrica.

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/spring2003.shtml