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Timothy Moore is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. He concurrently maintains a professorial position in the Department of Economics at Purdue University and serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on public finance and health economics, with particular emphasis on social insurance, the economic determinants of health and mortality, illicit drug markets, and risky behaviors. At Monash University, he teaches the graduate course Public Economics (ECX5810).
Professor Moore holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park (2012), an M.A. in Economics from Monash University (2003), and a B.Commerce in Economics and B.Science in Psychology from the University of Melbourne (1999). His professional appointments include Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne (2015 onward, on leave from 2018), Associate Professor at Purdue University (2018 onward), and Assistant Professor at George Washington University (2012-2016). He has been affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Faculty Research Fellow since 2013.
Moore has been recognized with the Deans' Certificate for Research Excellence from the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne in 2015, 2016, and 2017, as well as the Shapiro Policy Research Scholar award from the George Washington Institute of Public Policy (2014-2015), among other honors. His key publications include "The Mortality Effects of Retirement: Evidence from Social Security Eligibility at Age 62" (with Maria Fitzpatrick, Journal of Public Economics, 2018), "The Effect of Disability Insurance Payments on Beneficiaries' Earnings" (with Alexander Gelber and Alexander Strand, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017), "The Employment Effects of Terminating Disability Benefits" (Journal of Public Economics, 2015), "Liquidity, Economic Activity, and Mortality" (with William N. Evans, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012), and "Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives" (with Alexander Gelber, Zhuan Pei, and Alexander Strand, Journal of Political Economy, 2023). These works have informed policy discussions on the impacts of social insurance on employment, health, and longevity.