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Using a Structural Retirement Model to Simulate the Effects of Changes to the OASDI and Medicare Programs
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2004-10)
In this paper, we specify a dynamic programming model that addresses the interplay among health, financial resources, and the labor market behavior of men in the later part of their working lives. The model is estimated ...
The Impact of Diabetes on Work-force Participation: Results from a National Household Sample
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2003-01)
Women and sustainable development, a reflection
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-11)
Enhancing the Quality of Data on the Measurement of Income and Wealth
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2007-06)
Over the last decade or so, a substantial effort has gone into the design of a series of
methodological investigations aimed at enhancing the quality of survey data on income and
wealth. These investigations have largely ...
The Impact of Poor Health Behaviors on Workforce Disability.
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2003-06)
The effects of poor health habits on mortality have been studied extensively. However, few studies have examined the impact of these health behaviors on workforce disability. In the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally ...
Population growth, age structure, and age-specific productivity
(Springer-Verlag, 1989-11)
Motivated by empirical evidence that fluctuations in age structure affect relative wages across age groups, this paper asks whether there is a steady-state age distribution that maximizes the lifetime wages of a representative ...
The Economic Consequences of Widowhood
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2002-04)
We analyzed the economic consequences of a husband’s death using events that occurred between the first two waves of the HRS and AHEAD studies. We compared poverty transitions against published results from Social ...
Informal Caregiving for Diabetes and Diabetic Complications Among Elderly Americans
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2001-06)
Objectives: Little is known regarding the amount of time spent by unpaid caregivers providing help to elderly individuals for disabilities associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). We sought to obtain nationally representative ...
Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2007-10)
After dropping for a century, the average retirement age for U.S. males seems to have
leveled off in recent decades. An important question is whether as future improvements
in technology cause wages to rise, desired ...
Unintended Population Consequences of Policies
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
Unintended population consequences of policies stem from three sources: (1) A policy overshoots its original goal; (2) different policies conflict, so that the implementation of one policy inhibits implementation of another ...