NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Aging


2013
w19071 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Effects of Social Security Policies on Benefit Claiming, Retirement and Saving

w19070 Katherine Baicker
Michael Chernew
Jacob Robbins

The Spillover Effects of Medicare Managed Care: Medicare Advantage and Hospital Utilization

w19016 Andreas Ravndal Kostøl
Magne Mogstad

How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work

w19035 Liran Einav
Jonathan D. Levin

The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis

w19032 Jingjing Chai
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Exchanging Delayed Social Security Benefits for Lump Sums: Could This Incentivize Longer Work Careers?

w18969 Annamaria Lusardi
Carlo de Bassa Scheresberg

Financial Literacy and High-Cost Borrowing in the United States

w18952 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell

The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence

w18927 Daniel J. Benjamin
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball
Alex Rees-Jones

Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred from Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

w18902 Gopi Shah Goda
Damon Jones
Colleen Flaherty Manchester

Retirement Plan Type and Employee Mobility: The Role of Selection and Incentive Effects

w18900 Sanders Korenman
Dahlia Remler

Rethinking Elderly Poverty: Time for a Health Inclusive Poverty Measure?

w18881 Justine S. Hastings
Ali Hortaçsu
Chad Syverson

Advertising and Competition in Privatized Social Security: The Case of Mexico

w18869 Bruce D. Meyer
Wallace K.C. Mok

Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

w18856 Edgar Vogel
Alexander Ludwig
Axel Börsch-Supan

Aging and Pension Reform: Extending the Retirement Age and Human Capital Formation

w18787 Daniel J. Benjamin
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball
Nichole Szembrot

Aggregating Local Preferences to Guide Marginal Policy Adjustments

w18764 Veronika K. Pool
Clemens Sialm
Irina Stefanescu

It Pays to Set the Menu: Mutual Fund Investment Options in 401(k) Plans

w18755 Jeffrey R. Brown
Zoran Ivković
Scott Weisbenner

Empirical Determinants of Intertemporal Choice

w18750 Pierre Dubois
Rachel Griffith
Aviv Nevo

Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?

w18743 Stephen G. Dimmock
Roy Kouwenberg
Olivia S. Mitchell
Kim Peijnenburg

Ambiguity Attitudes and Economic Behavior

w18718 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the Great Recession

w18717 Joanna Lahey
Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Fertility Control Access on the 19th Century Demographic Transition

w18695 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

Health, Education, and the Post-Retirement Evolution of Household Assets

w18687 Daniel L. McFadden
The New Science of Pleasure

w18669 Annamaria Lusardi
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Olivia S. Mitchell

Optimal Financial Knowledge and Wealth Inequality

w18665 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna

Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics


2012
w18658 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

The Nexus of Social Security Benefits, Health, and Wealth at Death

w18642 Aviva Aron-Dine
Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein

The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later

w18582 Fabian Duarte
Justine S. Hastings

Fettered Consumers and Sophisticated Firms: Evidence from Mexico's Privatized Social Security Market

w18601 Daniel Gottlieb
Kent Smetters

Narrow Framing and Life Insurance

w18589 Jay Bhattacharya
Christina Gathmann
Grant Miller

The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis

w18575 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
Stephen P. Zeldes

What Makes Annuitization More Appealing?

w18565 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Soren Leth-Petersen
Torben Nielsen
Tore Olsen

Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowdout in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark

w18559 Edward N. Wolff
The Asset Price Meltdown and the Wealth of the Middle Class

w18552 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on Longevity: Patient-Level Evidence from the 1996-2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and Linked Mortality Public-Use Files

w18542 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Support

w18517 John Chalmers
Woodrow T. Johnson
Jonathan Reuter

The Effect of Pension Design on Employer Costs and Employee Retirement Choices: Evidence from Oregon

w18491 Robert Novy-Marx
Joshua D. Rauh

Linking Benefits to Investment Performance in US Public Pension Systems

w18489 Robert Novy-Marx
Joshua D. Rauh

The Revenue Demands of Public Employee Pension Promises

w18488 Robert L. Clark
Melinda S. Morrill
David Vanderweide

Defined Benefit Pension Plan Distribution Decisions by Public Sector Employees

w18485 Steven J. Haider
Kathleen M. McGarry

Parental Investments in College and Later Cash Transfers

w18475 Gabriella Conti
Andrea Galeotti
Gerrit Mueller
Stephen Pudney

Popularity

w18446 Kathleen McGarry
Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers

w18444 Isaac Ehrlich
Yong Yin

The Problem of the Uninsured

w18412 Justine S. Hastings
Brigitte C. Madrian
William L. Skimmyhorn

Financial Literacy, Financial Education and Economic Outcomes

w18374 Daniel J. Benjamin
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball
Nichole Szembrot

Beyond Happiness and Satisfaction: Toward Well-Being Indices Based on Stated Preference

w18371 Janet Currie
Tom Vogl

Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries

w18361 Courtney C. Coile
Phillip B. Levine
Robin McKnight

Recessions, Older Workers, and Longevity: How Long Are Recessions Good For Your Health?

w18359 Keith M. Marzilli Ericson
Consumer Inertia and Firm Pricing in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Insurance Exchange

w18342 Jeffrey R. Brown
Scott Weisbenner

The Distributional Effects of the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision

w18327 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Lead Policy and Academic Performance: Insights from Massachusetts

w18308 Adam Bee
Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?

w18287 Takeo Hoshi
Takatoshi Ito

Defying Gravity: How Long Will Japanese Government Bond Prices Remain High?

w18282 Nathaniel Hendren
Private Information and Insurance Rejections

w18286 Leemore Dafny
Subramaniam Ramanarayanan

Does it Matter if Your Health Insurer is For-Profit? Effects of Ownership on Premiums, Insurance Coverage, and Medical Spending

w18258 Péter Hudomiet
Robert J. Willis

Estimating Second Order Probability Beliefs from Subjective Survival Data

w18235 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Pharmaceutical Innovation and Longevity Growth in 30 Developing and High-income Countries, 2000-2009

w18229 Kevin S. Milligan
David A. Wise

Health and Work At Older Ages: Using Mortality To Assess Employment Capacity Across Countries

w18220 Brigitte C. Madrian
Matching Contributions and Savings Outcomes: A Behavioral Economics Perspective

w18210 John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

When Does It Pay to Delay Social Security? The Impact of Mortality, Interest Rates, and Program Rules

w18172 David Autor
Mark Duggan
Jonathan Gruber

Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance

w18166 Florian Heiss
Adam Leive
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

Plan Selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data

w18158 John Chalmers
Jonathan Reuter

What is the Impact of Financial Advisors on Retirement Portfolio Choices and Outcomes?

w18108 Amanda E. Kowalski
Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance

w18051 Kevin S. Milligan
How is Economic Hardship Avoided by Those Retiring Before the Social Security Entitlement Age?

w18014 Axel H. Börsch-Supan
Michela Coppola
Anette Reil-Held

Riester Pensions in Germany: Design, Dynamics, Targetting Success and Crowding-In

w18009 Axel H. Börsch-Supan
Entitlement Reforms in Europe: Policy Mixes in the Current Pension Reform Process

w17995 Katherine L. Milkman
John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Following Through on Good Intentions: The Power of Planning Prompts

w17974 Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder

Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey: Evidence from the American Life Panel

w17973 Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder

Stock Price Expectations and Stock Trading

w17970 Mogens Fosgerau
Daniel L. McFadden
Michel Bierlaire

Choice Probability Generating Functions

w17953 Daniel L. McFadden
Mogens Fosgerau

A theory of the perturbed consumer with general budgets

w17938 Daniel L. McFadden
Carlos E. Noton
Pau Olivella

Remedies for Sick Insurance

w17936 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
John A. Graves
Jonathan Gruber
Samuel Kleiner

Do High-Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care? Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns

w17931 Emily Oster
Ira Shoulson
E. Ray Dorsey

Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments: Evidence from Huntington Disease

w17930 Leora F. Klapper
Annamaria Lusardi
Georgios A. Panos

Financial Literacy and the Financial Crisis

w17927 Gopi Shah Goda
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Aaron Sojourner

What Will My Account Really Be Worth? An Experiment on Exponential Growth Bias and Retirement Saving

w17933 Jonathan T. Kolstad
Amanda E. Kowalski

Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform

w17911 Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen Utkus

Target-Date Funds in 401(k) Retirement Plans

w17901 Mark R. Cullen
Clint Cummins
Victor R. Fuchs

Geographic and Racial Variation in Premature Mortality in the US: Analyzing the Disparities

w17887 Shamena Anwar
Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson

The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes

w17886 Pierluigi Balduzzi
Jonathan Reuter

Heterogeneity in Target-Date Funds and the Pension Protection Act of 2006

w17866 John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

The Decision to Delay Social Security Benefits: Theory and Evidence

w17863 Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell
Vilsa Curto

Financial Sophistication in the Older Population

w17857 Robin McKnight
Jonathan Reuter
Eric Zitzewitz

Insurance as Delegated Purchasing: Theory and Evidence from Health Care

w17843 James J. Choi
Emily Haisley
Jennifer Kurkoski
Cade Massey

Small Cues Change Savings Choices

w17824 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

Were They Prepared for Retirement? Financial Status at Advanced Ages in the HRS and AHEAD Cohorts

w17821 Annamaria Lusardi
Numeracy, financial literacy, and financial decision-making

w17802 Aviva Aron-Dine
Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Mark R. Cullen

Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important Is Forward Looking Behavior?

w17783 Xavier Gabaix
Boundedly Rational Dynamic Programming: Some Preliminary Results

w17748 Martin B. Hackmann
Jonathan T. Kolstad
Amanda E. Kowalski

Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform

w17738 David M. Cutler
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Education and Health: Insights from International Comparisons


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