Publications
The publications below were produced through research projects in the RAND Center for the Study of Aging. A complete list of RAND Labor & Population publications is also available online.
2012
What Will My Account Really Be Worth? An Experiment on Exponential Growth Bias and Retirement Saving — April 2, 2012
Uses a large-scale field experiment to measure the effect of interventions designed to inform subjects about the mapping between current contributions and income in retirement on saving behavior.
Empirical Evidence for Decreasing Returns to Scale in a Health Capital Model — March 13, 2012
Estimates a health investment equation, derived from a health capital model with particular emphasis on whether the health production function has constant returns to scale, or decreasing returns to scale.
Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Meta-analysis — March 2, 2012
Meta-analyzes enrollment, attendance and dropout effect estimates from forty two references of conditional cash transfer program evaluations in fifteen developing countries.
Male Labor Force Participation and Social Security in Mexico — February 17, 2012
Seeks to explain the decline in male labor force participation of males 60 to 64 years old in Mexico and the effect on the social security system.
Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study: Financial Transfer — February 6, 2012
Summarizes and compares measures of financial transfers in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and its sister surveys from other countries.
Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study: Expectations — February 6, 2012
Summarizes and compares measures of subjective economic and health expectations in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and its sister surveys from other countries.
Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study: Employment and Retirement Measures — February 6, 2012
Summarizes and compares measures of employment and retirement status in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and its sister surveys from other countries.
Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study: Income Measures — February 6, 2012
Summarizes and compares measures of household and individual income in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and its sister surveys from other countries.
Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study: Wealth Measures — February 6, 2012
Summarizes and compares measures of household and individual wealth in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and its sister surveys from other countries.
Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study: Cognition — February 6, 2012
Summarizes and compares measures of cognitive health and decline in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and its sister surveys from other countries.
Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study: Chronic Medical Conditions — February 6, 2012
Summarizes and compares measures of chronic diseases and medical conditions in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and its sister surveys from other countries.
Effects of Social Activities on Cognitive Functions: Evidence from CHARLS — January 31, 2012
Investigates the relationship between cognitive abilities and social activities for people aged 45 or older using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.
The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe — January 27, 2012
Investigates the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status and health of older individuals in Europe.
The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: User's Guide and Codebook — January 20, 2012
This codebook covers the second wave of L.A.FANS. Fieldwork for the second wave took place between August 2006 and December 2008.
The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Telephone Questionnaires — January 20, 2012
Telephone questionnaires that were used during Wave 2 of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey conducted between August 2006 and December 2008.
2011
Age Differences in Daily Social Activities — December 20, 2011
Examines the extent to which older and younger people do different activities when they are with others and when they are alone.
Experimental Analysis of the Health and Well-being Effects of a Non-contributory Social Security Program — December 8, 2011
Designs and evaluates a new non-contributory social security program in the State of Yucatan, Mexico.
Why Farmers Sometimes Love Risks: Evidence from India — December 8, 2011
Using a unique dataset collected among farmers in India's semi-arid tropics, this paper documents the surprising prevalence of risk-taking behavior in the face of high-stakes gambles.
Firing Costs and Flexibility: Evidence from Firms' Employment Responses to Shocks in India — December 8, 2011
Tests the theory that industrial employment is more sensitive to shocks in areas where labor regulations are less restrictive.
Learning your Child's Price: Evidence from Data on Projected Dowry in Rural India — December 7, 2011
Combines novel data and methodology to shed light on the contribution to dowry of a composite characteristic that refer to a child quality.
Multiple Imputation for Combined-Survey Estimation With Incomplete Regressors In One But Not Both Surveys — December 7, 2011
Within-survey multiple imputation (MI) methods are adapted to pooled-survey regression estimation where one survey has a larger set of regressors but fewer observations than the other.
Gender, Social Norms and Voting: Female Turnout in Indian State Elections — December 7, 2011
Analyzes voter turnout data from Indian state legislative assembly elections to test whether voting behavior on the part of women is influenced by strategic complementarities.
Trends and Educational Differentials in Marriage Formation Among Taiwanese Women — November 11, 2011
Using data pooled from 15 waves of the Women's Marriage, Fertility, and Employment Survey, documents trends and educational differentials in marriage formation among Taiwanese women born between 1910 and 1979.
Differences by Mother's Education in the Effect of Childcare on Child Obesity — November 11, 2011
Explores the effects on child obesity transmitted through cumulative months of non-parental childcare over the child's pre-school years.
Cognitive Health of Older Indians: Individual and Geographic Determinants of Female Disadvantage — November 10, 2011
Examines cognitive function of older Indians, using cross-sectional data from the 2010 pilot round of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India, fielded across Punjab and Rajasthan in the north and Kerala and Karnataka in the south.
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