The publications below were produced through research projects in the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.
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.
Explores how to combine two economic games to construct a behavioral measure of forgiveness.
Examines the educational effects of sibship sex composition using data from the 2002 and 2007 Taiwan Social Change Survey.
Reports on the outcomes of a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the aggregate of about 40 spending components.
Analyzes the relationships between actual stock market price changes and the subjective probability of price changes, and between the subjective probability of price changes and the likelihood of engaging in stock trading.
Uses survey data to examine the role of social expectations, financial literacy and knowledge of default consequences.
Analyses the impact of insecurity and crime victimization on support and satisfaction with democracy and trust in institutions in Mexico.
Identifies moment conditions in linear panel data models with measurement error.
Studies the impact of judicial reform in Mexico by using a survey about crime victimization and perceptions of insecurity in eleven Mexican cities, three of which implemented the reform.
Uses a large-scale field experiment to measure the effect of interventions designed to inform subjects about the mapping between current contributions and income in retirement on saving behavior.
Estimates a health investment equation, derived from a health capital model with particular emphasis on whether the health production function has constant returns to scale, or decreasing returns to scale.
Meta-analyzes enrollment, attendance and dropout effect estimates from forty two references of conditional cash transfer program evaluations in fifteen developing countries.
Seeks to explain the decline in male labor force participation of males 60 to 64 years old in Mexico and the effect on the social security system.
