Heterogeneity in Income Tax Incidence: Are the Wages of Dangerous Jobs More Responsive to Tax Changes than the Wages of Safe Jobs?
Compares the wage response of dangerous jobs to the wage response of safe jobs.
Publications
The publications below were produced through research projects in the RAND Center for the Study of Aging.
2011
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Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice: How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision
Introduces a two-step methodology which uses compensating differentials to characterize the tax elasticity of occupational choice.
2010
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Data Sets on Pensions and Health: Data Collection and Sharing for Policy Design
Discusses data sets, including their key parameters of pension and health status, research designs, samples, and response rates and the opportunities they offer for cross-national studies and their implications for policy evaluation and development.
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Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects in the Presence of Covariates
Discusses identification of unconditional quantile treatment effects when it is necessary or simply desirable to condition on covariates.
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Maternal Input Choices and Child Cognitive Development: Testing for Reverse Causality
Assesses whether the results of child achievement tests affect maternal employment and the child-care choices of mothers with prekindergarten children.
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Disability of Older Koreans: Evidence on Prevalence and the Role of Education from Five Data Sets
Investigates how educational attainment may affect the prevalence of disability among older Koreans.
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Effects of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession on American Households
Presents evidence from high-frequency data collections dedicated to tracking the effects of the financial crisis and great recession on American households.
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Technical Detail and Appendices for a Study of Neighborhood Archetypes for Population Health Research
Demonstrates a new approach that employs neighborhood measures such as social environment, built environment, commuting and migration, and demographics and household composition to classify neighborhoods into archetypes.
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The Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey Questionnaire
Questionnaire for the Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey, a study of individuals and households that resided in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana, in August 2005, just before Hurricane Katrina struck (on 29 August 2005).
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The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, Wave 2: Household Questionnaires
Attempts to reinterview in person all primary respondents from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey which was fielded between April 2000 and January 2002.
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House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder
Investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle.
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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
Examines geographic mobility and housing downsizing at older ages in Britain and America.
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Financial Decision Making and Cognition in a Family Context
Studies the association of cognitive traits and in particular numeracy of both spouses on financial outcomes of the family.
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Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS
Presents results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic status.
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Individuals' Uncertainty about Future Social Security Benefits and Portfolio Choice
Presents empirical evidence from the Health and Retirement Study Internet Survey and documents systematic variation in respondents' uncertainty about their future Social Security benefits by individual characteristics.
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle
Presents a life-cycle model that incorporates multiple mechanisms explaining (jointly) a large part of the observed disparities in health by socioeconomic status.
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Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?
Proposes an identification strategy to properly identify the effects of child gender on parental investments in India.
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Legalization and the Economic Status of Immigrants
Investigates the impact of legalization on the economic outcomes of the legalized population.
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The Dynamics of Immigration and Wages
Presents a new approach to the analysis of the relationship between immigration and wages based on a panel vector autoregression.
2009
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Socioeconomic Success and Health in Later Life: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey
Using the Indonesia Family Life Survey, focuses on documenting major changes in the health of the population aged 45 years and older since 1993.
2008
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Contrasting Trajectories of Labor Market Assimilation between Migrant Women in Western and Southern Europe
Compares labor force participation rate (LFPR) gaps between migrant and native-born women in nine European countries, and examine how these LFPR gaps change with migrant women's additional years in the receiving country.