Working Papers from 2008

2008

• Methodological Innovations in Collecting Spending Data: The HRS Consumption and Activities Mail Survey December 17, 2008

  Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder

• Marital Histories and Economic Well-Being December 16, 2008

  Julie Zissimopoulos, Benjamin Karney, Amy Rauer

• Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions December 9, 2008

  Pierre-Carl Michaud, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

• Using International Micro Data to Learn about Individuals' Responses to Changes in Social Insurance November 24, 2008

  Michael D. Hurd, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Susann Rohwedder

• Changes in Consumption at Retirement October 23, 2008

  Emma Aguila, Orazio P. Attanasio, Costas Meghir

• Contrasting Trajectories of Labor Market Assimilation between Migrant Women in Western and Southern Europe October 23, 2008

  Michael S. Rendall, Flavia Tsang, Jennifer Rubin, Lila Rabinovich, Barbara Janta

• Graph Comprehension: An Experiment in Displaying Data as Bar Charts, Pie Charts and Tables with and without the Gratuitous 3rd Dimension September 23, 2008

  Matthias Schonlau, Ellen Peters

• Health Indexes and Retirement Modeling in International Comparisons September 8, 2008

  Erik Meijer, Arie Kapteyn, Tatiana Andreyeva

• Differential Mortality in Europe and the U.S. Estimates Based on Subjective Probabilities of Survival September 8, 2008

  Adeline Delavande, Susann Rohwedder

• Personal Retirement Accounts and Saving September 3, 2008

  Emma Aguila

• The Impact of Terrorism on the Defense Industry July 13, 2008

  Claude Berrebi, Esteban F. Klor

• Eliciting Subjective Expectations in Internet Surveys June 26, 2008

  Adeline Delavande, Susann Rohwedder

• Retirement Effects on Health in Europe June 20, 2008

  Norma B. Coe, Gema Zamarro

• Are Voters Sensitive to Terrorism? Direct Evidence from the Israeli Electorate May 30, 2008

  Claude Berrebi, Esteban F. Klor

• The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery May 30, 2008

  Peter Kuhn, Peter Kooreman, Adriaan R. Soetevent, Arie Kapteyn

• The Response of Household Parental Investment to Child Endowments May 6, 2008

  David S. Loughran, Ashlesha Datar, M. Rebecca Kilburn

• Universal Versus Economically Polarized Change in Age at First Birth: A French-British Comparison April 25, 2008

  Michael S. Rendall, Olivia Ekert-Jaffe, Heather Joshi, Kevin Lynch, Remi Mougin

• The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data April 24, 2008

  Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder

• Divergence in Labor Market Institutions and International Business Cycles April 22, 2008

  Raquel Fonseca Benito, Lise Patureau, Thepthida Sopraseuth

• Why Wait? : The Effect of Marriage and Childbearing on the Wages of Men and Women April 1, 2008

  David S. Loughran, Julie Zissimopoulos

• Childhood Educational Disruption and Later Life Outcomes: Evidence from Prince Edward County February 5, 2008

  Paul Heaton