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Personality, Lifetime Earnings, and Retirement Wealth
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-10)
Studies of adolescents and young adults have shown that schooling impacts economic outcomes beyond its impact on cognitive ability. Research has also shown that the personality trait of conscientiousness predicts health ...
Neighborhood Stressors and Race/Ethnic Differences in Hypertension Prevalence (The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis)
(2010-09)
Background: The reasons for racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension (HTN) prevalence in the United States are poorly understood.Methods: Using data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), we investigated ...
Emisiones de CO2, centrales nucleares y bacterias
(Apuntes de Ciencia y Tecnología (Asociación para el Avance de la Ciencia y Tecnología en España), 2010-04)
Do neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and low social cohesion predict coronary calcification?: the CARDIA study
(2010-07)
Growing evidence suggests that neighborhood characteristics may influence the risk of coronary heart disease. No studies have yet explored associations of neighborhood attributes with subclinical atherosclerosis in younger ...
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 ...
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 ...
The relationship between neighborhood poverty and alcohol use: estimation by marginal structural models.
(2010-07)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies on the relationship of neighborhood disadvantage with alcohol use or misuse have often controlled for individual characteristics on the causal pathway, such as income-thus potentially underestimating ...
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 ...
Neighborhood stressors and social support as predictors of depressive symptoms in the Chicago Community Adult Health Study
(2010-04)
There is a growing interest in understanding the effects of specific neighborhood conditions on psychological wellbeing. We examined cross-sectional associations of neighborhood stressors (perceived violence and disorder, ...
Neighborhoods and health
(2010-02)
Features of neighborhoods or residential environments may affect health and contribute to social and race/ethnic inequalities in health. The study of neighborhood health effects has grown exponentially over the past 15 ...