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The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Employment of Older Workers
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2016-09)
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), we estimate a dynamic model of health and employment. We estimate how transitory and persistent health shocks affect ...
Intergenerational Altruism and Transfers of Time and Money: A Life-cycle Perspective
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2018-04)
Parental investments in children can take one of three broad forms: (1) Time investments during childhood and adolescence that aid child development, and in particular cognitive ability; (2) educational investments that ...
Evaluating Web-based Savings Interventions: A Preliminary Assessment
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2013-10-15)
There is reason to believe that technological approaches can help promote voluntary saving in 401(k) retirement accounts. Working with Vanguard, a leading 401(k) plan administrator, we are evaluating the impact of introducing ...
Declining Wealth and Work among Male Veterans in the Health and Retirement Study
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2015-09)
The composition, wealth, and employment of male veterans and nonveterans are analyzed for four cohorts from the Health and Retirement Study, ages 51 to 56 in 1992, 1998, 2004, and 2010. Half of the two oldest cohorts served ...
Consumption and Differential Mortality
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2011-09)
It is well-established that differential mortality according to wealth or income introduces bias into age profiles of these variables when estimated on cross-sectional or synthetic cohort data. However, little is known ...
Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt?
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-12)
We present the first estimates of the causal effects of SSDI receipt on labor supply that are generalizable to the entire population of program entrants in the present day system. We take advantage of a unique workload ...
Cognitive Ability and Retiree Health Care Expenditure
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-09)
Prior research indicates that retirees with less cognitive ability are at greater financial risk because they have lower incomes yet higher medical expenditures. Linking HRS data to administrative records, we evaluate two ...
First-Round Impacts of the 2008 Chilean Pension System Reform
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2011-09)
Chile’s innovative privatized pension system has been lauded as possible model for Social Security system overhauls in other countries, yet it has also been critiqued for not including a strong safety net for the uncovered ...
Intergenerational Transfers in the Health and Retirement Study Data
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-11)
Many economic analyses of public policy issues are based upon the life-cycle model of
household behavior. The usual formulation omits private intergenerational transfers. This paper considers the possibility of a more ...
Reconciling Findings on the Employment Effect of Disability Insurance
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-10)
Over the last 25 years the Social Security Disability Insurance Program (DI) has grown
dramatically. During the same period of time employment rates for men with work limitations showed substantial declines in both absolute ...