Jason Seligman Assistant Professor
Jason Seligman’s research focuses on topics within public finance, social insurance, and risk management. Within social insurance he focuses on programmatic design: optimal size, structure, and associated costs. Seligman includes private savings, pension & insurance offerings, and elements of behavioral finance in his research addressing adequacy and sustainability of social insurance in both developed and developing societies.
Besides being an Assistant Professor at the Glenn School Seligman is a Research Fellow at the TIAA-CREF Institute and a Research Affiliate with the University of Wisconsin’s Center for Financial Security.
Seligman previously held positions at the University of Georgia’s Department of Economics and Institute of Government.
He has also served in the US Federal Government at the US Treasury - Office of Economic Policy and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, under Presidents Clinton and Bush.
He has been and advisor to:
• The United States Government Accountability Office on matters of public finance
• The State of Ohio on tax policy state and local pensions, insurance and revenue estimation
• The state of California regarding energy policy and aging related social service planning
• The State of Georgia on education finance, tax policy, topics in aging and the impacts of state poverty alleviation programs
• The Center for State and Local Government Excellence on state and local pensions
His work has been published in the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, The National Tax Journal, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, The Quarterly Journal of Economics and Finance, The Journal of Public Budgeting and Financial Management and Pravartak, The Journal of Insurance and Management, published by the National Insurance Academy of India. He has contributed chapters to books on Simulation Analysis, Macro Economic Policy and state and local fiscal policy
Seligman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, a Bachelors Degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an International Baccalaureate from the United Nations International School.
Phone: 614.247.4086
Fax: 614.292.4868
Email: Seligman.10@osu.edu
Office: 310P Page Hall
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