About the Authors
Susanne Alm is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. Her main research concerns the relationship between childhood living conditions and different aspects of social problems and social exclusion in adulthood, predominantly criminal offending, drug abuse, and housing eviction, but also poverty and long-term unemployment. Jennifer Alonso-García has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands since July 2018. Previously she worked at CEPAR; University of New South Wales, Sydney; and Université Catholique de Louvain. Her research combines the areas of actuarial science and household, pension, and quantitative finance to study the design, risk sharing, and financing of funded and pay-as-you-go retirement income schemes. She is an expert on the fiscal sustainability and adequacy of nonfinancial defined contribution public pension schemes. Nicholas Barr is a Professor of Public Economics at the London School of Economics and the author of numerous books and articles, including The Economics of the Welfare State (Oxford University Press, 5th edition, 2012), Financing Higher Education: Answers from the UK (with Iain Crawford; Routledge, 2005), and Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices (with Peter Diamond; Oxford University Press, 2008). Mirko Bevilacqua is a researcher at Inarcassa (Pension Scheme of the Liberal Professions for Italian Engineers and Architects) and an Adjunct Professor of Economics and Statistics at University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, where he earned a PhD in economics in 2009. He formerly worked in the Research Department of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. María del Carmen Boado-Penas is a Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Mathematics at the University of Liverpool, U.K. She holds a PhD in actuarial science (Doctor Europeus) from the University of Valencia, Spain, and an MSc in quantitative finance. She has cooperated on pension projects at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and at the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Immigration. Tito Boeri is a Professor at Bocconi University. From March 2015 to February 2019 he was President of the Italian social security administration (INPS). He has been Scientific Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti since its inception and is Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. He is the founder of the economic policy xxi