Professor of Economics

510 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-7581
Email: ghilarducci.1@nd.edu

Teresa Ghilarducci (Ph.D Berkeley, 1984) is Director of the Higgins Labor Research Center at Notre Dame. She specializes in pension benefits.
Her new book, underway, The End of Retirement, for Princeton University Press, investigates the effect of pension losses on older Americans. Her book Labor's Capital:  The Economics and Politics of Employer Pensions, MIT Press, won an Association of American Publishers award in 1992. She co-authored Portable Pension Plans for Casual Labor Markets in 1995. In Search of Retirement Security:  The Changing Mix of Social Insurance, Employee Benefits, and Individual Responsibility, Teresa Ghilarducci, Van Doorn Ooms, John L. Palmer, and Catherine Hill, editors was published by  Century Foundation Press in 2005. The volume Work Options for Mature Americans, co-edited with John A. Turner will be published in  Spring 2007. Ghilarducci publishes in referred journals and testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress. “How Defined Contribution Plans and 401(k)s Affect Employer Pension Costs,” authored with Wei Sun, was published in the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, July 2006.
She serves as a public trustee on the newly-created GM Defined Contribution Health Fund for UAW Retirees and served on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's Advisory Board from 1995-2002, and on the Board of Trustees of the State of Indiana Public Employees' Retirement Fund from 1997-2002. Her research has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, U.S. Department of Labor, the Ford Foundation, and the Retirement Research Foundation.

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