Working Papers from 2011

2011

• 401(k) Loan Defaults: Who Is at Risk and Why? December 28, 2011

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

• Age Differences in Daily Social Activities December 20, 2011

  Christopher Steven Marcum

• Optimal Financial Literacy and Saving for Retirement December 20, 2011

  Annamaria Lusardi, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Olivia Mitchell

• Why Farmers Sometimes Love Risks: Evidence from India December 8, 2011

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

• Firing Costs and Flexibility: Evidence from Firms' Employment Responses to Shocks in India December 8, 2011

  Achyuta Adhvaryu, Amalavoyal V. Chari, Siddharth Sharma

• Learning your Child's Price: Evidence from Data on Projected Dowry in Rural India December 7, 2011

  Amalavoyal V. Chari, Annemie Maertens

• Multiple Imputation for Combined-Survey Estimation With Incomplete Regressors In One But Not Both Surveys December 7, 2011

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

• How to Improve Social Security Education: Retirement Plan Providers' Perspectives December 5, 2011

  Lisa Schneider, Mathew Greenwald

• Financial Advisors' Role in Influencing Social Security Claiming December 5, 2011

  Mathew Greenwald, Andrew G. Biggs, Lisa Schneider

• The Geography of Financial Literacy December 5, 2011

  Christopher B. Bumcrot, Judy Lin, Annamaria Lusardi

• Encouraging New Hires to Save for Retirement December 5, 2011

  Robert Clark, Melinda Sandler Morrill, Jennifer Maki

• Differences by Mother's Education in the Effect of Childcare on Child Obesity November 11, 2011

  Zafar Nazarov, Michael S. Rendall

• Trends and Educational Differentials in Marriage Formation Among Taiwanese Women November 11, 2011

  Yi-Chuan Chang, Jui-Chung Allen Li

• Cognitive Health of Older Indians: Individual and Geographic Determinants of Female Disadvantage November 10, 2011

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

• Markers and Drivers: Cardiovascular Health of Middle-Age and Older Indians November 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 November 10, 2011

  Ashlesha Datar, Jenny Liu, Sebastian Linnemayr, Chad Stecher

• Information and Persuasion: Achieving Safe Water Behaviors in Kenya November 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 November 7, 2011

  M. Rebecca Kilburn, Jill S. Cannon

• International Comparisons in Health Economics: Evidence from Aging Studies October 12, 2011

  James Banks, James P. Smith

• Intergenerational Correlations of Health Among Older Adults: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia October 11, 2011

  Younoh Kim, Bondan Sikoki, John Strauss, Firman Witoelar

• Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and Terrorism: Do Natural Disasters Incite Terror? September 28, 2011

  Claude Berrebi, Jordan Ostwald

• The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada September 28, 2011

  Pierre Lefebvre, Philip Merrigan, Pierre-Carl Michaud

• Economic Preparation for Retirement September 27, 2011

  Michael D. Hurd, Susann Rohwedder

• Do Disability Benefits Discourage Work? September 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 September 6, 2011

  Liam Delaney, Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith

• Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China: Evidence from CHARLS August 26, 2011

  Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Meng Tian, Yaohui Zhao

• The Effect of Education on Health: Cross-Country Evidence August 26, 2011

  Raquel Fonseca Benito, Yuhui Zheng

• Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England August 25, 2011

  Liam Delaney, Alan Fernihough, James P. Smith

• The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Interviewer Training Manual July 13, 2011

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

• The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Interviewer Computer Manual July 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 June 29, 2011

  James Banks, Zoe Oldfield, James P. Smith

• Stereotypes and Madrassas: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan June 27, 2011

  Adeline Delavande, Basit Zafar

• Are Americans Really Less Happy With Their Incomes? June 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 April 26, 2011

  Jinkook Lee, Drystan Phillips

• Trends in the Employment of Married Mothers of Preschool-Aged Children in Taiwan April 22, 2011

  Yu-Han Jao, Jui-Chung Allen Li

• Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling: Gender Spillovers in Corporate Leadership March 23, 2011

  David A. Matsa, Amalia Miller

• The Impact of Cutting Education Expenditures: The Case of Mexico in the 1980s March 23, 2011

  Francisco Perez-Arce

• The Effect of Education on Time Preferences March 23, 2011

  Francisco Perez-Arce

• The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from Unconditional Quantile Regression with Firm Fixed Effects March 10, 2011

  David Powell, Joachim Wagner

• Anchoring Vignettes and Response Consistency March 2, 2011

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

• Education, Training and Innovation in Transition Economies: Is there a Link? February 18, 2011

  Zafar Nazarov, Alisher Akhmedjonov

• Family Labor Participation and Child Care Decisions: The Role of Grannies February 17, 2011

  Gema Zamarro

• Employment Status, Quality of Matching, and Retirement in Korea: Evidence from Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging February 17, 2011

  Chulhee Lee, Jinkook Lee

• Toward Standardization of Benefit-Cost Analyses of Early Childhood Interventions February 10, 2011

  Lynn A. Karoly

• A Contribution to Health Capital Theory February 8, 2011

  Titus Galama

• What is the Cost of Married Women's Paid Work? January 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? January 18, 2011

  David Powell

• Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice: How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision January 12, 2011

  David Powell, Hui Shan