The publications below were produced through research projects in the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.
In an evaluation of a pension program in Yucatan, researchers found that low literacy, language barriers, and cultural biases hindered older adult respondents' ability to answer mortality-expectation questions and experimented with new ways of asking the questions. They tried variations of the questions with and without visual aids. They report here what they learned for constructing subsequent survey items.
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.
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, examines how source of health insurance coverage generally and employer sponsored health insurance specifically affect the employment trajectory following onset of disability.
Little has been reported about "military caregivers" — the population of those who care for wounded, ill, and injured military personnel and veterans. This report summarizes the results of a study designed to describe the magnitude of military caregiving in the United States today, as well as to identify gaps in the array of programs, policies, and initiatives designed to support military caregivers.
Uses claims data from a large firm to study the independent roles of both moral hazard and adverse selection in private health insurance markets.
This analysis advances understanding of late-life functioning by focusing on the heterogeneity of functional limitation experience, appropriately accounting for the relation between functional limitation and mortality and linking long-term patterns with short-term changes in functional limitation.
The nursing home culture change movement aims to improve resident quality of life and quality of care by emphasizing the deinstitutionalization of nursing home culture and focusing on person-centered care.
Examines changes in retirement wealth resulting from Mexico's transformation from its pay-as-you-go social-security system to a fully funded system with personal retirement accounts, including management fees.
Describes the design and implementation of dried blood spot based assay for high sensitivity C-reactive protein, undertaken as part of fourth wave of the Indonesia Family Life Survey.
Measures the effects of local labor demand conditions on a host of outcomes for older individuals including employment, retirement, Social Security claiming, wages, and job characteristics.
Documents the Harmonized Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI) file.
The simple one-good model of life-cycle consumption requires that consumption be continuous over retirement; yet prior research based on partial measures of consumption or on synthetic panels indicates that spending drops at retirement, a result that has been called the retirement-consumption puzzle.
Outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only a few passes through the data.
Investigates long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes in later life.
Examines the level and distribution of consumers' financial literacy across income groups, using 2012 data collected in the RAND American Life Panel.
Explores what health-capital theory has to offer in terms of informing and directing research into health inequality.
Analyzes the financial sustainability of the non-contributory pension program for older persons in Mexico.
Examines how adolescent friendship networks are linked to binge drinking trajectories into young adulthood using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
Provides a normative and positive review of pension benefit statement design.
Analyzes the composition, dynamics, poverty patterns, and individual and family characteristics of young people not in education, employment or training in Mexico.
Dementia represents a substantial financial burden on society, one that is similar to the financial burden of heart disease and cancer.
Applies a model to understand how the income tax subsidy distorts optimal cost-sharing in health insurance.
Introduces an unconditional quantile regression (UQR) estimator that can be used for exogenous or endogenous treatment variables.
Analyzes the impacts of various labour market regulations on employment outcomes in low-income countries and how it varies by gender.
