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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 ...
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 ...
Stages of the Demographic Transition from a Child's Perspective: Family Size, Cohort Size, and Children's Resources
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008-06)
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 ...
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 ...
Saving among Low-Income Women: Motivation and Obstacles
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2008-09)
How do low-income households think about saving? What motivations do they identify for saving, and what obstacles to meeting their goals? We use data from qualitative interviews with 51 households in Detroit to shed light ...
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 ...
Managing the Risk of Life
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2007-10)
This study analyzes the role of individual’s and spouse’s survival expectations and knowledge about Social Security rules on the expected Social Security claiming age, taking into account the various incentives single and ...
Preparation for Retirement, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Resources
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2008-09)
Traditional economic models assume that individuals have full information and act perfectly rationally. However, we show that there is considerable variation in financial literacy in the
population and propose modeling ...