The publications below were produced through research projects in the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.
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.
Reports results from a resume-based field experiment designed to examine employer preferences for job applicants who attended for-profit colleges.
Analyzes the impact of India's public employment generation program (NREGS) on entrepreneurship.
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.
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.
