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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 ...
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 ...
The Enduring Value of Social Science Research: The Use and Reuse of Primary Research Data
(2010-11-22)
The goal of this paper is to examine the extent to which social science research data are shared and assess whether data sharing affects research productivity tied to the research data themselves. We construct a database ...
Appendices to Fomby, Paula, Joshua A. Goode, Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu, and Stefanie Mollborn (2019). “Adolescent Technology, Sleep, and Physical Activity Time in Two U.S. Cohorts.” Youth & Society.
(Sage, 2019-07-30)
The advent of Internet-enabled mobile digital devices has transformed U.S. adolescent technology use over the last decade, yet little is known about how these changes map onto other health-related behaviors. We provide a ...
The Effects of the Financial Crisis on the Well-Being of Older Americans: Evidence from the Cognitive Economics Study
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-09)
This paper uses the Cognitive Economics Study (CogEcon) to assess the effect of the financial crisis on the well-being of older Americans. Financial wealth fell by about 15 percent for the median household. These financial ...
Mortgage Contract Decisions and Mortgage Distress: Family and Financial Life-Cycle Factors
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2010-09)
The U.S. economy experienced a dramatic rise in the price of owner occupied housing during
1999-2007, and then a precipitous decline from 2007 through 2009. In this paper we utilize data from the Panel Study of Income ...