Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study

Helen Levy, David Weir

NBER Working Paper No. 14692
Issued in January 2009

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The research reported herein was pursuant to a grant from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) funded as part of the Retirement Research Consortium (RRC). The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of SSA, any agency of the Federal Government or the RRC. This analysis uses data from the Health and Retirement Study, sponsored by the National Institute of Aging (NIA U01AG009740) with additional support from SSA. We are grateful to seminar participants at the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and NBER for helpful comments, and to Italo Gutierrez and Joanna DeBartolo for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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