Steven Sass

Lecturer in Economics

Departments/Programs

Economics

Degrees

The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D.
University of Delaware, B.A.

Expertise

economic writing for multiple audiences
specializations in retirement, Social Security and pensions, their histories, and the histories of business education and business organizations.

Profile

Dr. Sass was an economist at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He was the founding editor of the Bank’s economics magazine, The Regional Review and author of The Promise of Private Pensions (Harvard University Press, 1997), The Pragmatic Imagination (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), and with Alicia Munnell, Social Security and the Stock Market (Upjohn, 2006) and Working Longer (Brookings Institution Press, 2008).
Dr. Sass earned his B.A. from the University of Delaware and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.

Courses Taught

ECON

26b

Writing in Economics Practicum

Scholarship

Sass, Steven. "See Dick Earn, Earn Dick Earn." Rev. of Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools, by Steven Conn. American Historical Review vol. forthcoming 2020: 1.

Sass, Steven. "“The Contributions of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: 2008–2017”." Social Security Bulletin 80. 1 (2020): 7-18.

Sass, Steven. "Medicaid and Older Americans.

Sass, Steven. "Will the Financial Fragility of the Elderly Increase?." Retirement Management Journal (2018).

Sass, Steven. "How Will More Retirees Affect Investment Returns?.

Sass, Steven. "Non-Financial Factors in Retirement Decisions." Psychosociological Issues in Human Resource Management (2017).

Sass, Steven. "Can We Increase Retirement Saving?.

Sass, Steven. Privatizing Railroad Retirement. Upjohn Institute, 2015.

Sass, Steven/Anek Belbase, Thomas Cooperrider, Jorge Ramos-Mercado. "What Do Subjective Assessments of Financial Well-Being Reflect?." Journal of Personal Finance (2015).

Sass, Steven. "Should You Buy an Annuity from Social Security?.

Sass, Steven/Kelly Haverstick and J.P. Aubry. "Employer’s (Lack of) Response to the Retirement Income Challenge.

Sass, Steven, Alicia Munnell. Working Longer: The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge. Brookings Institution Press, 2008.

Sass, Steven, Alicia Munnell. Social Security and the Stock Market: How the Pursuit of Market Magic Shapes the System. Upjohn Institute, 2006.

Sass, Steven, Gordon Clark, Alicia Munnell, and Michael Orzag, ed. The Development of Employer Retirement Income Plans: From the Nineteenth Century to 1980. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Sass, Steven. The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years. Harvard University Press, 1997.

Sass, Steven. Entrepreneurial Historians and History: Leadership and Rationality in American Economic Historiography. Garland Press, 1986.

Sass, Steven. The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School 1881-1981. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.