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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Aging


2009
w15510 Silvia Ardagna
Annamaria Lusardi

Heterogeneity in the effect of regulation on entrepreneurship and entry size

w15469 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell
Vilsa Curto

Financial Literacy and Financial Sophistication Among Older Americans

w15435 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population

w15395 Courtney Coile
Phillip B. Levine

The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs: How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement

w15392 Florian Heiss
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

Regulation of private health insurance markets: Lessons from enrollment, plan type choice, and adverse selection in Medicare Part D

w15364 Beomsoo Kim
Christopher J. Ruhm

Inheritances, Health and Death

w15352 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell
Vilsa Curto

Financial Literacy among the Young: Evidence and Implications for Consumer Policy

w15350 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell

How Ordinary Consumers Make Complex Economic Decisions: Financial Literacy and Retirement Readiness

w15324 Alex Edmans
Xavier Gabaix
Tomasz Sadzik
Yuliy Sannikov

Dynamic Incentive Accounts

w15317 Ning Tang
Olivia S. Mitchell
Gary R. Mottola
Stephen Utkus

The Efficiency of Sponsor and Participant Portfolio Choices in 401(k) Plans

w15307 Motohiro Yogo
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets

w15288 Shripad Tuljapurkar
Ryan D. Edwards

Variance in Death and Its Implications for Modeling and Forecasting Mortality

w15271 Angus S. Deaton
Aging, religion, and health

w15266 John J. McArdle
James P. Smith
Robert Willis

Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey

w15245 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest

Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.

w15241 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Jonathan Levin

Beyond Testing: Empirical Models of Insurance Markets

w15213 Samuel H. Preston
Jessica Y. Ho

Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault?

w15170 John Geanakoplos
Stephen P. Zeldes

Market Valuation of Accrued Social Security Benefits

w15164 David M. Cutler
Bryan Lincoln
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans

w15149 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Why do the Elderly Save? The Role of Medical Expenses

w15130 Jason M. Fletcher
Partha Deb
Jody L. Sindelar

Tobacco Use, Taxation and Self Control in Adolescence

w15122 Partha Deb
William T. Gallo
Padmaja Ayyagari
Jason M. Fletcher
Jody L. Sindelar

Job Loss: Eat, drink and try to be merry?

w15121 Jason M. Fletcher
Jody L. Sindelar
Shintaro Yamaguchi

Cumulative Effects of Job Characteristics on Health

w15108 Olivia S. Mitchell
Gary R. Mottola
Stephen P. Utkus
Takeshi Yamaguchi

Default, Framing and Spillover Effects: The Case of Lifecycle Funds in 401(k) Plans

w15090 Angus S. Deaton
Raksha Arora

Life at the top: the benefits of height

w15085 Amanda E. Kowalski
Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care

w15079 Jingjing Chai
Wolfram Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

w15070 Jeffrey R. Brown
Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton

Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?

w15032 Anupam Jena
Tomas Philipson

Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Technology Adoption

w15000 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys

w14998 Anne Case
Alicia Menendez

Requiescat in Pace? The Consequences of High Priced Funerals in South Africa

w14964 Steven J. Atlas
Jonathan S. Skinner

Education and the Prevalence of Pain

w14865 Jonathan Skinner
Douglas Staiger

Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

w14859 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

w14820 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

The Cost of Low Fertility in Europe

w14811 Gabriel Aranovich
Jay Bhattacharya
Alan M. Garber
Thomas E. MaCurdy

Coping with Chronic Disease? Chronic Disease and Disability in Elderly American Population 1982-1999

w14808 Annamaria Lusardi
Peter Tufano

Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness

w14800 Chulhee Lee
Labor Force Participation of Older Males in Korea: 1955-2005

w14759 Jason T. Abaluck
Jonathan Gruber

Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program

w14747 Silvia Ardagna
Annamaria Lusardi

Where does regulation hurt? Evidence from new businesses across countries

w14746 Chulhee Lee
Technological Changes and Employment of Older Manufacturing Workers in Early Twentieth Century America

w14744 Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

w14715 Annamaria Lusardi
Punam Anand Keller
Adam M. Keller

New Ways to Make People Save: A Social Marketing Approach

w14690 Angus S. Deaton
Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development

w14682 Alan J. Auerbach
Ronald Lee

Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems

w14667 Michael Baker
Jonathan Gruber
Kevin S. Milligan

Retirement Income Security and Well-Being in Canada

w14653 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Life Expectancy and Old Age Savings

w14647 Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan
David A. Wise

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary

w14639 Charles Yuji Horioka
Do Bequests Increase or Decrease Wealth Inequalities?

w14637 Angus Deaton
Jane Fortson
Robert Tortora

Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa


2008
w14580 Loretti I. Dobrescu
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Alberto F. Motta

Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?

w14573 Kasey Buckles
Daniel M. Hungerman

Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers

w14538 Justine S. Hastings
Lydia Tejeda-Ashton

Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

w14540 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
David G. Seif

Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities

w14527 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

w14498 Samuel H. Preston
Caroline Sten Hartnett

The Future of American Fertility

w14462 Dora L. Costa
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects

w14456 Anne Case
Anu Garrib
Alicia Menendez
Analia Olgiati

Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa

w14435 Tracy A. Falba
William T. Gallo
Jody L. Sindelar

Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers

w14428 Douglas Almond
Bhashkar Mazumder

Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy

w14414 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Mark R. Cullen

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices

w14343 Robert Novy-Marx
Joshua D. Rauh

The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises

w14333 David M. Cutler
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Tom Vogl

Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms

w14332 Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Managing Contribution and Capital Market Risk in a Funded Public Defined Benefit Plan: Impact of CVaR Cost Constraints

w14317 David Neumark
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Challenge of Population Aging

w14257 Alan M. Garber
Jonathan Skinner

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?

w14270 Christopher F. Chabris
David Laibson
Carrie L. Morris
Jonathon P. Schuldt
Dmitry Taubinsky

Individual Laboratory-Measured Discount Rates Predict Field Behavior

w14231 John B. Shoven
Gopi Shah Goda

Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation

w14185 C.Y. Cyrus Chu
Hung-Ken Chien
Ronald D. Lee

The Evolutionary Theory of Time Preferences and Intergenerational Transfers

w14174 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
Steven M. Ewer
Todd H. Wagner

Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

w14105 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends

w14104 John Cawley
John R. Moran
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans

w14093 Ryan D. Edwards
The Cost of Uncertain Life Span

w14089 Amy Finkelstein
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

w14084 Annamaria Lusardi
Financial Literacy: An Essential Tool for Informed Consumer Choice?

w14078 Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott
Cagri Kumru

Managing Public Investment Funds: Best Practices and New Challenges

w14055 Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Michael Z. Stamos

Asset Allocation and Location over the Life Cycle with Survival-Contingent Payouts

w14053 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

w14012 Silvia Ardagna
Annamaria Lusardi

Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints

w14007 Anne Case
Christina Paxson
Mahnaz Islam

Making Sense of the Labor Market Height Premium: Evidence From the British Household Panel Survey

w13979 John Geanakoplos
Stephen P. Zeldes

Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts

w13976 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

How are Preferences Revealed?

w13966 Francisco J. Gomes
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Luis M. Viceira

Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds

w13929 Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder

The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data

w13893 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure

w13824 Annamaria Lusardi
Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs

w13822 Sumit Agarwal
John C. Driscoll
Xavier Gabaix
David Laibson

Learning in the Credit Card Market

w13789 Erik Hurst
The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle

w13758 Jonathan Gruber
Covering the Uninsured in the U.S.

w13750 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell

Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare?

w13748 Jeffrey R. Brown
Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan
Marian V. Wrobel

Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle

w13746 David M. Cutler
Amy Finkelstein
Kathleen McGarry

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance

w13726 Julia Coronado
Olivia S. Mitchell
Steven A. Sharpe
S. Blake Nesbitt

Footnotes Aren't Enough: The Impact of Pension Accounting on Stock Values


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