Dr. Andrew Houtenville is currently an Associate Professor of Economics in the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and the Research Director of the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. He is extensively involved with disability statistics and employment policy research. He is the Principal Investigator of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment Policy and Measurement (EPM-RRTC), as well as, a co-Principal Investigator of the Hunter College Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics (StatsRRTC) and Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Individual Characteristics and Employment Outcomes (IC-RRTC). He is working with the National Institutes of Health/Clinical Center/Rehabilitation Medicine Division under an Inter-Personnel Agreement (IPA) to evaluate and develop potential recommendations for the reform of the Social Security Administration's child and adult disability determination processes. He is widely published in the areas of disability statistics and the economic status of people with disabilities.
Dr. Houtenville received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of New Hampshire in 1997 and was a National Institute on Aging Post-Doctoral Fellow at Syracuse University in 1998/1999. He is the former president of the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers.
