The publications below were produced through research projects in the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.
Uses panel data at the household level on a complete inventory of household spending and assets to estimate the spending response to the sharp and largely unexpected declines in house and stock market prices that occurred in the Great Recession.
Examines causes of steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US in spite of income paths at older ages exhibiting similar declines.
Explores the relationships between financial trust and behaviors, attitudes, knowledge and preferences related to utilizing professional financial advice.
Estimates the effect of labor market conditions on the number of applications for Social Security Disability Insurance, the number and composition of initial allowances and denials, and the timing of applications relative to disability onset.
Estimates the impact of demographic and educational changes on the earnings and returns to schooling of workers in Brazil and Mexico.
Presents a theory of human capital with both health capital and skill capital aimed at understanding the complex relationship between education and health, and generates several new testable predictions.
Uses a dynamic life-cycle model estimated with rich Chilean longitudinal data to investigate the extent to which comparative advantage drives participation in informal labor markets.
User guide (health behavior, version A) for the harmonization of cross-national studies of aging to the health and retirement study.
Measures the causal effect of time out of the labor force on subsequent employment of Social Security Disability Insurance applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits.
Compares the effectiveness and costs of telephone-only approach to in-person plus telephone for delivering an evidence-based, coordinated care management program for dementia.
This report documents the process one research team developed to obtain informed consent from those choosing to participate in the research, norms and regulations for conducting research involving human subjects in the United States and Mexico, and how the team developed and tested a culturally sensitive approach for collecting informed consent among the elderly in Yucatan.
This article describes the current status of home-based medical care in the United States and offers a brief narrative of a fictional homebound patient and the health events and fragmented care she faces.
In 1997, Mexico transformed its pay-as-you-go social security system to a fully funded system with personal retirement accounts, including management fees. This article examines changes in retirement wealth resulting from this new system.
Exploits a combination of policy variation from multiple pension reforms in Austria and administrative data from the Austrian Social Security Database.
Investigates the extension of cross validation methods to higher dimensions for the derivative of an unconditional joint density.
Analyzes the impact of India's public employment generation program (NREGS) on entrepreneurship.
Reports results from a resume-based field experiment designed to examine employer preferences for job applicants who attended for-profit colleges.
Tests a new 'soft' commitment account that has no external restrictions on savings behavior on borrowers against externally restricted accounts such as 'commitment accounts'.
This report details a comparison of the results of a social-gap index based on local and social observations at the block level with other marginalization and social-gap rates used to target social-welfare programs in Mexico. It also assesses the feasibility of targeting delivery of noncontributory pensions for older people who live in urban areas.
In 2010, 15 percent of Americans older than age 70 had dementia. By 2050, the number of new dementia cases among those 65 and older is expected to double. This blueprint outlines policy options to help decisionmakers improve dementia long-term services and supports (LTSS) by promoting earlier detection, improving access to LTSS, promoting person- and caregiver-centered care, supporting caregivers, and reducing dementia LTSS costs.
Studies the impact of income and payroll taxes on intensive and extensive labor supply decisions for workers ages 55-74 using the Health and Retirement Study.
Explores whether the economic stimulus payments of 2008 had significant impacts on labor supply.
This report describes Yucatan's efforts to design, implement, and evaluate a state government program to provide cash benefits to the elderly to improve their well-being. The report provides context and background for the program and describes its design and implementation. It also describes the design of the first evaluation of the program impact in Valladolid; the evaluation's findings will be presented in future publications.
This report describes Yucatan's efforts to design, implement, and evaluate a state government program to provide cash benefits to the elderly to improve their well-being. The report provides context and background for the program and describes its design and implementation. It also describes the design of the evaluation of the program impact in Merida; the evaluation's findings will be presented in future publications.
This report is one of a series of RAND reports describing the noncontributory pension program in Yucatan, Mexico; its implementation; its evaluation; and related topics. This report describes a pilot test of debit-card disbursal of pensions there and explores the results from several surveys of this pilot group.
