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Happy New Year!
As you requested, this is an update of RAND Labor and Population (L&P) activities to date. In order to keep up with our activities between announcements, you can always visit our home page for Featured Activities and Projects, and our Publications Pages for a full list of L&P releases.
This electronic announcement from RAND Labor and Population highlights the following:
Conferences
RSI and MiniMed
RAND is pleased to announce the 16th annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI). RSI consists of two annual conferences that address critical issues facing our aging population. The MiniMedical School for Social Scientists will be held on July 6-7, and the Demography, Economics, and Epidemiology of Aging conference on July 8-9, 2009. Both conferences will convene at the RAND Corporation headquarters in Santa Monica, California.
We are currently accepting applications. The deadline is March 13, 2009.
Qualified applicants must hold a Ph.D. or have completed two years of a Ph.D. program and be actively working on a dissertation. Only applicants working in the field of aging — or actively considering this research field — will be considered.
For more information, please contact Diana Malouf at malouf@rand.org or apply on line:
http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/rsi/rsiform.html
PAA 2009, April 30th – May 2nd
Please visit our booths at PAA in Detroit! Both the Center for the Study of Aging and the Indonesia Family Life Survey will have staffed booths to answer your questions about current projects and actvities.
In the News and Opportunities
BeFi is now at RAND!
The Behavioral Finance Forum, an organization dedicated to helping consumers make better financial decisions, will become an initiative of the nonprofit RAND Corporation, leaders of the two groups have announced.
The Behavioral Finance Forum, also known as BeFi, was founded in 2006 by Shlomo Benartzi, professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, and Warren Cormier, founder and president of the Boston Research Group. Both will continue to be involved with the Behavioral Finance Forum after RAND takes on management of its activities.
Behavioral finance is the study of the psychological factors that shape peoples' financial choices and decisions, including how they invest, how they save, and how they plan for retirement. BeFi was established to bring together academic, financial and governmental leaders interested in cutting-edge behavioral research for practical application.
The Behavioral Finance Forum's main activity is an annual conference where leading academic researchers exchange ideas with financial and governmental leaders. Often, these exchanges lead to follow-up projects where the conference participants collaborate to try out new ideas in real-world settings. The next conference is scheduled for May in Washington D.C., with the theme of U.S. / U.K. Behavioral Finance and Public Policy.
Researcher Opportunities
Fellowships in the Study of Aging
The RAND Corporation is accepting applications for one or more postdoctoral fellowships in the Study of Aging. This competitive program enables outstanding scholars to sharpen their analytic skills and advance their research agenda in the field of aging. Scholars come from various disciplines including economics, demography, sociology, and psychology.
Housed within RAND Labor and Population, the program blends formal and informal training and extensive collaboration with distinguished researchers without teaching obligations. One-year fellowships are renewable for a second year and provide a competitive stipend and health insurance.
Fellows must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and must have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline before they begin the program. The program is open to new scholars, as well as individuals who have some research experience or are on leave from an academic position.
Application review begins February 9th, 2009.
Additional information and application materials are available at http://www.rand.org/labor/fellows/ or by contacting: Diana Malouf at malouf@rand.org
Full-Time Positions
RAND Labor and Population is currently seeking Economists, Sociologists, and Demographers at all levels.
To apply, please begin online: http://www.rand.org/jobs/
Highlights of 2008 Publications
Working Papers
L&P has recently released the working papers listed below. From the abstract page, you can order a hardcopy of the paper or, when available, you can download the paper in PDF format at no cost.
Aguila, Emma. Personal Retirement Accounts and Saving, WR-600.
Aguila, Emma, Orazio P. Attanasio, Costas Meghir. Changes in Consumption at Retirement, WR-621.
Berrebi, Claude, Esteban F. Klor. The Impact of Terrorism on the Defense Industry, WR-597.
Brunello, Giorgio, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano. The Rise in Obesity Across the Atlantic: An Economic Perspective, WR-586.
Coe, Norma B., Gema Zamarro. Retirement Effects on Health in Europe, WR-588.
Delavande, Adeline, and Susann Rohwedder. Differential Mortality in Europe and the U.S.: Estimates Based on Subjective Probabilities of Survival, WR-613.
Delavande, Adeline and Susann Rohwedder. Eliciting Subjective Expectations in Internet Surveys, WR-589.
Evans, David K., and Arkadipta Ghosh. Prioritizing Educational Investments in Children in the Developing World, WR-587.
Fonseca, Raquel and Natalia Utrero. Employment Protection Laws, Barriers to Entrepreneurship, Financial Markets and Firm Size, WR-454.
Fonseca, Raquel, Lise Patureau, Thepthida Sopraseuth. Divergence in Labor Market Institutions and International Business Cycles, WR-562.
Heaton, Paul. Childhood Educational Disruption and Later Life Outcomes: Evidence from Prince Edward County, WR-552.
Hurd, Michael, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Susann Rohwedder. Using International Micro Data to Learn about Individuals' Responses to Changes in Social Insurance, WR-626 (pending).
Hurd, Michael, Susann Rohwedder. The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data, WR-563.
Kapteyn, Arie and Jelmer Yeb Ypma. Measurement Error and Misclassification: A Comparison of Survey and Register Data, WR-283-1.
Kapteyn, Arie, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest. Are Americans Really Less Happy With Their Incomes? WR-591.
Kapteyn, Arie, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest. Comparing Life Satisfaction, WR-623.
Kuhn, Peter, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan R. Soetevent, Arie Kapteyn. The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery, WR-574.
Loughran, David S., and Julie Zissimopoulos. Why Wait? The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wages of Men and Women, WR-482-1.
Meijer, Erik, Arie Kapteyn, and Tatiana Andreyeva. Health Indexes and Retirement Modeling in International Comparisons, WR-614.
Meijer, Erik, Susann Rohwedder, Tom Wansbeek. Prediction of Latent Variables in a Mixture of Structural Equation Models, with an Application to the Discrepancy Between Survey and Register Data, WR-584.
Rendall, Michael S., Heather Joshi, Kevin Lynch, Olivia Ekert-Jaffe, Remi Mougin. Universal Versus Economically Polarized Change in Age at First Birth: A French-British Comparison, WR-568.
Rendall, Michael S., Flavia Tsang, Jennifer Rubin, Lila Rabinovich, and Barbara Janta. Contrasting Trajectories of Labor Market Assimilation between Migrant Women in Western and Southern Europe, WR-622.
Schonlau, Matthius, and Ellen Peters. Graph Comprehension: An Experiment in Displaying Data as Bar Charts, Pie Charts and Tables with and without the Gratuitous 3rd Dimension, WR-618.
van Soest, Arthur, Arie Kapteyn, Tatiana Andreyeva, and James P. Smith. Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups, WR-409-1.
Research Briefs and Occasional Papers
The following L&P papers have been published recently. From the abstract page you can order a hard copy of a reprint or report. Some reports are also available in PDF format. Reprints are not always available electronically.
Karoly, Lynn A., Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Gail L. Zellman, Michal Perlman, Lynda Fernyhough. Room for Improvement in the Use of High-Quality Preschool Programs for California's Children, RB-9358.
Kilburn, M., Lynn Karoly. The Economics of Early Childhood Policy: What the Dismal Science Has to Say About Investing in Children, OP-227.
Kilburn, M., Lynn Karoly. What Does Economics Tell Us About Early Childhood Policy?, RB-9352.
Maestas, Nicole, Sarah Gaillot. Evaluating the Spirituality for Kids After-School Program, RB-9348.
Marquis, Jefferson, Nelson Lim, Lynn Scott, Margaret Harrell, Jennifer Kavanagh. Managing Diversity in Corporate America: An Exploratory Analysis, OP-206.
Reports
The following L&P papers have been published recently. From the abstract page you can order a hard copy of a reprint or report. Most reports are also available in PDF format at no charge.
Karoly, Lynn A. Valuing Benefits in Benefit-Cost Studies of Social Programs, TR-643.
Karoly, Lynn A., Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Gail L. Zellman, Michal Perlman, Lynda Fernyhough. Prepared to Learn: The Nature and Quality of Early Care and Education for Preschool-Age Children in California, TR-539.
Klerman, Jacob Alex, Jane McClure Burstain. Sanctions in the CalWORKs Program, TR-540.
Maestas, Nicole, and Sarah Gaillot. An Outcome Evaluation of the Spirituality for Kids Program, TR-575.
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