The publications below were produced through research projects in the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.
Proposes measures of successful home visiting program implementation and identifies factors that promote successful implementation or serve as barriers to program initiation based on lessons learned from the replication of the First Born® Program.
Provides an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiple countries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages.
Examines the correlations of health across generations using the Indonesia Family Life Survey.
Using a structured methodology and detailed data on terrorism, disasters, and other relevant controls for 167 countries between 1970 and 2007, examines the impact of natural disasters on terrorism.
Documents the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades in Canada and investigates trends in work after retirement.
Defines and estimates measures of economic preparation for retirement based on an inventory of economic resources while taking into account the risk of living to advanced old age and the risk of high out-of-pocket spending for health care services.
Studies determinants of drinking behavior and formation of subjective thresholds of acceptable drinking behavior using a sample of students in a major Irish University.
Using information from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, this paper studies the living arrangements of the elderly in China.
Combines three surveys (SHARE, HRS and ELSA) that include nationally representative samples of people aged 50 and over from thirteen OECD countries paper to shed light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes.
Explores why the Irish-born population in England is in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in Ireland, a reversal of the commonly observed healthy migrant effect.
Interviewer training manual for the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey.
Interviewer computer manual for the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey.
Examines the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of various major and minor diseases at older ages.
Uses unique experimental and survey data to investigate the behavior of Madrassa students, and how other groups in their communities interact with them.
Examines self-reported satisfaction with income in the Netherlands and the U.S. to find out if Americans are indeed really less satisfied.
This paper shows that individual intentions with regard to Social Security claiming ages are sensitive to how the early versus late claiming decision is framed.
Examines the economic wellbeing of the Korean elderly and their reliance on public and private transfers.
Examines trends in labor force participation among married mothers of preschool-aged children in Taiwan.
Examines the role of women helping women in corporate America.
Studies the impact of expenditures on the returns to schooling within a context of dramatic reductions in public spending.
Finds that individuals who were successful in the admission lottery to public college in Mexico were, on average, more patient.
Examines the productivity distribution of both exporting and non-exporting firms in German manufacturing industries while recognizing that it is potentially important to condition on firm fixed effects for estimation of this exporter premium.
Concludes the need for a systematic experimental approach to the design of anchoring vignettes before using them in practice to achieve response consistency.
Attempts to establish the effect of on-the-job-training and university education on the firm's innovation decision in transition economies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union.
Analyzes how and to what extent child care is provided by grandmothers and how this task is combined with paid work in ten European countries.
