2013-05-08T03:57:31Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/m/michaud_pierre-carl.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR586.html 2008-06-13T17:39:00Z 2008-06-13T17:39:00Z

Studies comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyzes whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9541.html 2010-07-07T11:04:00Z 2010-07-07T11:04:00Z

Analysis of labor market trends suggests that the United States is experiencing a shortage of anesthesiology providers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR643.html 2008-12-09T16:35:00Z 2008-12-09T16:35:00Z

Examines the effect of using alternative econometric modeling assumptions on fertility and female employment dynamics in Europe.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070623.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Focuses on the effect of liquidity constraints and startup costs on the relationship between wealth and fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080618.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looks at the effect of the 2000 repeal of the earnings test above the normal retirement age on the self-reported probabilities of working full-time after ages 65 and 62 of male workers in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070024.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obesity rates differ substantially on both sides of the Atlantic and across European countries, with most of the difference coming from the right tail of the weight distribution.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090817.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090816.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR658.html 2009-01-27T08:16:00Z 2009-01-27T08:16:00Z

Formulates a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on the human capital framework of health provided by Grossman.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9412.html 2008-12-11T10:24:00Z 2008-12-11T10:24:00Z

Discusses the effects of regulating drug prices in the United States in terms of the trade-off between benefiting the current generation (with lower prices) and benefiting future generations (with greater pharmaceutical innovation).

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1380.html 2009-01-09T16:41:00Z 2009-01-09T16:41:00Z

Investigates the effects on consumers of lowering U.S. pharmaceutical prices under various assumptions and finds that publicly financing price reductions, without affecting manufacturer prices, delivers benefits in virtually all plausible cases.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR626.html 2008-11-24T17:14:00Z 2008-11-24T17:14:00Z

Examines the scope of cross-country variation in institutions related to social insurance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR875.html 2011-09-28T10:45:00Z 2011-09-28T10:45:00Z

Documents the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades in Canada and investigates trends in work after retirement.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090025.html 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The authors investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe, estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation in the error terms.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR905.html 2011-12-20T10:45:00Z 2011-12-20T10:45:00Z

Devises a model to generate cross-sectional differences in wealth-to-income profiles, which is necessary to assess which types of consumers would benefit the most by early investment in financial literacy and sophisticated investment products.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000194.html 2010-06-01T12:00:00Z 2010-06-01T12:00:00Z

This study quantified the fiscal consequences and potential risks of trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and government expenditures.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP200100194.html 2001-06-01T00:00:00Z 2001-06-01T00:00:00Z

This study quantified the fiscal consequences and potential risks of trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and government expenditures.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR407.html 2006-09-12T18:40:00Z 2006-09-12T18:40:00Z

Examines the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and Retirement Study sample born in 1931-1941.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR191.html 2004-10-21T14:38:00Z 2004-10-21T14:38:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR500.html 2007-07-05T02:54:00Z 2007-07-05T02:54:00Z

This paper studies the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy.