Working Papers from 2011

401(k) Loan Defaults: Who Is at Risk and Why?

Dec 28, 2011

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

Age Differences in Daily Social Activities

Dec 20, 2011

Christopher Steven Marcum

Optimal Financial Literacy and Saving for Retirement

Dec 20, 2011

Annamaria Lusardi, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Olivia Mitchell

Why Farmers Sometimes Love Risks: Evidence from India

Dec 8, 2011

Annemie Maertens, David R. Just, Amalavoyal V. Chari

Firing Costs and Flexibility: Evidence from Firms' Employment Responses to Shocks in India

Dec 8, 2011

Achyuta Adhvaryu, Amalavoyal V. Chari, Siddharth Sharma

Learning your Child's Price: Evidence from Data on Projected Dowry in Rural India

Dec 7, 2011

Amalavoyal V. Chari, Annemie Maertens

Multiple Imputation for Combined-Survey Estimation With Incomplete Regressors In One But Not Both Surveys

Dec 7, 2011

Michael S. Rendall, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Margaret M. Weden, Zafar Nazarov

How to Improve Social Security Education: Retirement Plan Providers' Perspectives

Dec 5, 2011

Lisa Schneider, Mathew Greenwald

Financial Advisors' Role in Influencing Social Security Claiming

Dec 5, 2011

Mathew Greenwald, Andrew G. Biggs, Lisa Schneider

The Geography of Financial Literacy

Dec 5, 2011

Christopher B. Bumcrot, Judy Lin, Annamaria Lusardi

Encouraging New Hires to Save for Retirement

Dec 5, 2011

Robert Clark, Melinda Sandler Morrill, Jennifer Maki

Differences by Mother's Education in the Effect of Childcare on Child Obesity

Nov 11, 2011

Zafar Nazarov, Michael S. Rendall

Trends and Educational Differentials in Marriage Formation Among Taiwanese Women

Nov 11, 2011

Yi-Chuan Chang, Jui-Chung Allen Li

Cognitive Health of Older Indians: Individual and Geographic Determinants of Female Disadvantage

Nov 10, 2011

Jinkook Lee, Regina A. Shih, Kevin Carter Feeney, Kenneth M Langa

Markers and Drivers: Cardiovascular Health of Middle-Age and Older Indians

Nov 10, 2011

Jinkook Lee, P. Arokiasamy, Amitabh Chandra, Peifeng Hu, Jenny Liu, Kevin Carter Feeney

The Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Health and Investments in Rural India

Nov 10, 2011

Ashlesha Datar, Jenny Liu, Sebastian Linnemayr, Chad Stecher

Information and Persuasion: Achieving Safe Water Behaviors in Kenya

Nov 10, 2011

Jill E. Luoto, David I. Levine, Jeff Albert

Factors that Influence Successful Start-Up of Home Visiting Sites: Lessons Learned from Replicating the First Born® Program

Nov 7, 2011

M. Rebecca Kilburn, Jill S. Cannon

International Comparisons in Health Economics: Evidence from Aging Studies

Oct 12, 2011

James Banks, James P. Smith

Intergenerational Correlations of Health Among Older Adults: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia

Oct 11, 2011

Younoh Kim, Bondan Sikoki, John Strauss, Firman Witoelar

Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and Terrorism: Do Natural Disasters Incite Terror?

Sep 28, 2011

Claude Berrebi, Jordan Ostwald

The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada

Sep 28, 2011

Pierre Lefebvre, Philip Merrigan, Pierre-Carl Michaud

Economic Preparation for Retirement

Sep 27, 2011

Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder

Do Disability Benefits Discourage Work?

Sep 19, 2011

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen

Why Do Some Irish Drink So Much? Family, Historical and Regional Effects on Students' Alcohol Consumption and Subjective Normative Thresholds

Sep 6, 2011

Liam Delaney, Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith

Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China: Evidence from CHARLS

Aug 26, 2011

Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Meng Tian, Yaohui Zhao

The Effect of Education on Health: Cross-Country Evidence

Aug 26, 2011

Raquel Fonseca Benito, Yuhui Zheng

Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England

Aug 25, 2011

Liam Delaney, Alan Fernihough, James P. Smith

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Interviewer Training Manual

Jul 13, 2011

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

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Interviewer Computer Manual

Jul 7, 2011

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

Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes between England and the United States

Jun 29, 2011

James Banks, Zoe Oldfield, James P. Smith

Stereotypes and Madrassas: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Jun 27, 2011

Adeline Delavande, Basit Zafar

Are Americans Really Less Happy With Their Incomes?

Jun 24, 2011

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest

Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior

May 18, 2011

Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, Olivia Mitchell

Income and Poverty among Older Koreans: Relative Contributions of and Relationship between Public and Family Transfers

Apr 26, 2011

Jinkook Lee, Drystan Phillips

Trends in the Employment of Married Mothers of Preschool-Aged Children in Taiwan

Apr 22, 2011

Yu-Han Jao, Jui-Chung Allen Li

Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers in Corporate Leadership

Mar 23, 2011

David A. Matsa, Amalia Miller

The Impact of Cutting Education Expenditures: The Case of Mexico in the 1980s

Mar 23, 2011

Francisco Perez-Arce

The Effect of Education on Time Preferences

Mar 23, 2011

Francisco Perez-Arce

The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from Unconditional Quantile Regression with Firm Fixed Effects

Mar 10, 2011

David Powell, Joachim Wagner

Anchoring Vignettes and Response Consistency

Mar 2, 2011

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest, Hana Vonkova

Education, Training and Innovation in Transition Economies: Is there a Link?

Feb 18, 2011

Zafar Nazarov, Alisher Akhmedjonov

Family Labor Participation and Child Care Decisions: The Role of Grannies

Feb 17, 2011

Gema Zamarro

Employment Status, Quality of Matching, and Retirement in Korea: Evidence from Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging

Feb 17, 2011

Chulhee Lee, Jinkook Lee

Toward Standardization of Benefit-Cost Analyses of Early Childhood Interventions

Feb 10, 2011

Lynn A. Karoly

A Contribution to Health Capital Theory

Feb 8, 2011

Titus Galama

What is the Cost of Married Women's Paid Work?

Jan 27, 2011

Seonglim Lee, Jinkook Lee, Yunhee Chang

Heterogeneity in Income Tax Incidence: Are the Wages of Dangerous Jobs More Responsive to Tax Changes than the Wages of Safe Jobs?

Jan 18, 2011

David Powell

Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice: How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision

Jan 12, 2011

David Powell, Hui Shan