Dr. Knapp is a research scientist and labor economist at the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) at the University of Southern California (cesr.usc.edu). His research interests span a wide range of areas related to life course decisionmaking including worker retention and retirement, retirement incentives in pensions, and aging and long-term care transitions. Within these areas, he focuses on the relationship between policy design and choices of individuals or households. He is an MPI for the Gateway to Global Aging Data (g2aging.org), where he leads the Gateway’s Policy Explorer team, which collects historical policy information on public pensions, social assistance, health insurance, long-term care, and education. He is also an MPI for the Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (gatewayexposome.org), where he coordinates the Policy, Community Services, and Life Experiences domains. Dr. Knapp uses a range of methods, including quasi-experimental approaches and structural models in his studies.