Working Papers from 2010

2010

• Data Sets on Pensions and Health: Data Collection and Sharing for Policy Design December 9, 2010

  Jinkook Lee

• Does the Social Security Statement Improve Americans' Knowledge of Their Retirement Benefits? December 8, 2010

  Andrew G. Biggs

• Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects in the Presence of Covariates December 6, 2010

  David Powell

• Maternal Input Choices and Child Cognitive Development: Testing for Reverse Causality December 6, 2010

  Zafar Nazarov

• Effects of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession on American Households November 23, 2010

  Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder

• Disability of Older Koreans: Evidence on Prevalence and the Role of Education from Five Data Sets November 23, 2010

  Jibum Kim, Jinkook Lee

• Is Social Security Claiming Influenced by How Information Is Framed? November 16, 2010

  Jeffrey R. Brown, Olivia Mitchell, Arie Kapteyn

• How Much Do People Know About Social Security? November 16, 2010

  Mathew Greenwald, Arie Kapteyn, Olivia Mitchell, Lisa Schneider

• What Influences New Hires to Save for Retirement? November 16, 2010

  Robert Clark, Melinda Sandler Morrill

• The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions November 14, 2010

  John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Katherine L. Milkman

• An Empirical Analysis of 401(k) Loan Defaults November 14, 2010

  Timothy (Jun) Lu, Olivia Mitchell, Stephen P. Utkus

• Choices and Information Needs for Workers Leaving the North Carolina State Retirement Plan: Accepting a Lump Sum Payment or Receiving an Annuity at Retirement November 14, 2010

  Robert Clark, Melinda Sandler Morrill

• Better Financial Decision Making among Low-Income and Minority Groups November 14, 2010

  Peter Tufano, Timothy Flacke, Nicholas W. Maynard

• Exploring Alternative Ways to Present Estimated Future Social Security Benefits in the Social Security Statement November 14, 2010

  Andrew G. Biggs

• The Returns to Work for Children Leaving the SSI-Disabled Children Program November 14, 2010

  Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly

• Framing Effects and Social Security Claiming Behavior November 13, 2010

  Jeffrey R. Brown, Olivia Mitchell, Arie Kapteyn

• Improving the Social Security Statement November 12, 2010

  Andrew G. Biggs

• Evaluating Workplace Education for New Hires November 12, 2010

  Robert Clark, Melinda Sandler Morrill

• What Do People Know About Social Security? November 12, 2010

  Mathew Greenwald, Arie Kapteyn, Olivia Mitchell, Lisa Schneider

• Five Steps to Planning Success November 12, 2010

  Aileen Heinberg, Angela A. Hung, Arie Kapteyn, Annamaria Lusardi, Joanne K. Yoong

• The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Household Questionnaires November 9, 2010

  Anne R. Pebley, Christine E. Peterson, Narayan Sastry, Karen Yuhas

• Technical Detail and Appendices for a Study of Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research November 9, 2010

  Margaret M. Weden, Chloe E. Bird, Jose J. Escarce, Nicole Lurie

• The Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey Questionnaire November 9, 2010

  Narayan Sastry, Christine E. Peterson

• Do Risk Disclosures Affect Investment Choice? October 5, 2010

  Angela A. Hung, Aileen Heinberg, Joanne K. Yoong

• House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder September 22, 2010

  James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoe Oldfield, James P. Smith

• Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States September 22, 2010

  James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoe Oldfield, James P. Smith

• Financial Decision Making and Cognition in a Family Context September 22, 2010

  James P. Smith, John McArdle, Robert Willis

• Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS September 21, 2010

  James Banks, Alastair Muriel, James P. Smith

• Individuals' Uncertainty about Future Social Security Benefits and Portfolio Choice September 21, 2010

  Adeline Delavande, Susann Rohwedder

• A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle August 16, 2010

  Titus Galama, Hans van Kippersluis

• What Explains the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy? The Role of Household Decision-Making July 1, 2010

  Raquel Fonseca Benito, Kathleen J. Mullen, Gema Zamarro, Julie Zissimopoulos

• Cobertura del Sistema Privado de Capitalización en Chile, Colombia y México July 1, 2010

  Emma Aguila, Orazio P. Attanasio, Ximena Quintanilla

• Poverty and Time Preference June 15, 2010

  Leandro Carvalho

• Not Making the Transition to College: School, Work, and Opportunities in the Lives of Contemporary American Youth June 15, 2010

  Robert Bozick, Stefanie DeLuca

• Financial Constraints, Endogenous Educational Choices and Self-Selection of Migrants June 15, 2010

  Juliano Assuncao, Leandro Carvalho

• Legalization and the Economic Status of Immigrants May 10, 2010

  Silvia Helena Barcellos

• The Dynamics of Immigration and Wages May 10, 2010

  Silvia Helena Barcellos

• Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently? May 10, 2010

  Silvia Helena Barcellos, Leandro Carvalho, Adriana Lleras-Muney

• Declining Return Migration from the United States to Mexico in the late-2000s Recession March 12, 2010

  Michael S. Rendall, Peter Brownell, Sarah Kups

• What Can We Learn from (and about) Global Aging? February 18, 2010

  Arie Kapteyn

• The Role of Education in Preparing Graduates for the Labor Market in the GCC Countries February 18, 2010

  Lynn A. Karoly

• Using Matched Survey and Administrative Data to Estimate Eligibility for the Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy Program February 18, 2010

  Erik Meijer, Lynn A. Karoly, Pierre-Carl Michaud

• Identifying the Effects of Unjustified Confidence versus Overconfidence: Lessons Learned from Two Analytic Methods February 17, 2010

  Andrew M. Parker, Eric R. Stone

• Program Take-Up Among CalWORKs Leavers: Medi-Cal, Food Stamps, and the EITC: An Evaluation of Participation in Work-Support Programs by CalWORKs Leavers January 19, 2010

  Jacob Alex Klerman, Amy G. Cox, V. Joseph Hotz, Charles Mullens, John Karl Scholz

• Informing, Enrolling, and Reenrolling CalWORKs Leavers in Food Stamps and Medi-Cal January 19, 2010

  Jacob Alex Klerman, Amy G. Cox

• National Independence, Women's Political Participation, and Life Expectancy in Norway January 12, 2010

  Jenna Nobles, Ryan Andrew Brown, Ralph C. Catalano

• Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom January 8, 2010

  Robert W. Fairlie, Harry Krashinsky, Julie Zissimopoulos, Krishna B. Kumar

• Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Self-Employment: The Case of Older Workers January 8, 2010

  Julie Zissimopoulos, Lynn A. Karoly, Qian Gu

• The Effect of the UI Wage Replacement Rate on Reemployment Wages: A Dynamic Discrete Time Hazard Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity January 8, 2010

  Zafar Nazarov

• Labor Market and Immigration Behavior of Middle-Aged and Elderly Mexicans January 8, 2010

  Emma Aguila, Julie Zissimopoulos

• Gain and Loss: Marriage and Wealth Changes Over Time January 7, 2010

  Julie Zissimopoulos

• Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time January 7, 2010

  Julie Zissimopoulos, James P. Smith

• Asking for Help: Survey And Experimental Evidence on Financial Advice and Behavior Change January 7, 2010

  Angela A. Hung, Joanne K. Yoong