Anne B. Ciemnecki
Senior Fellow

Anne Ciemnecki is a senior fellow at Mathematica, in NJ. An expert in interviewing methods for people with disabilities, she directs many of Mathematica’s large-scale surveys and health care studies.

Ciemnecki is the senior methodologist for Mathematica’s evaluation of the Youth Transition Demonstration, which is testing ways to help young people with disabilities make the transition from school to work. This study involves multisite, mixed-mode surveys of individuals ages 14 to 25. She is also designing and directing data collection for the Benefit Offset Demonstration (BOND), an SSA policy initiative to gradually reduce SSDI beneficiaries’ payments when the beneficiary has earnings over a specific amount, instead of cutting the benefit to $0 (as under current law), thus facilitating return to work. Her surveys will estimate impacts of the program interventions on employment, benefits, and well-being by measuring differences in outcomes between the program and control groups.

Ciemnecki, an expert in random assignment, informed consent procedures, and Institutional Review Board clearance, presents widely to professional associations, including the American Association for Public Opinion Research, American Statistical Association, and American Public Health Association, on methodology issues. She is the author of a chapter on telephone surveys for people with disabilities in the book Towards Best Practices for Surveying People with Disabilities and serves as a referee for Public Opinion Quarterly and the Journal of Statistics. She is a member of the Institutional Review Board at Public/Private Ventures, Inc., and holds an M.A. in administration from Rider University (formerly Rider College).

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