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Adult Mortality Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders:A Review of the Evidence
Adult Mortality Asian Americans Pacific Islanders
2016/3/18
Mortality estimates have consistently pointed to a sizable health advantage for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders compared to white Americans, but a question remains as to whether mortality estima...
Consistency of Age Reporting By Cause of Death Among Elderly African-American Decedents
Age Reporting Death Among Elderly African-American Decedents
2016/3/18
Because age is associated with many biological and social phenomena, accurate age data ar e critical for researchers exploring the societal impact of population aging and for policy makers deciding ho...
Loneliness and Depression in Middle and Old Age:Are the Childless More Vulnerable?
Loneliness Depression Middle and Old Age Childless
2016/3/18
This study examines the relative circumstances of community-dwelling childless and parents in middle and old age (50-84 years old), using data from the 1988 National Survey of Families and Households,...
Hidden Regret and Advantageous Selection in Insurance Markets
Insurance markets Pooling Separating equilibria Coverage Optimal choice
2016/3/18
We examine insurance markets in which there are two types of customers: those who regret suboptimal decisions and those who don't. In this setting, we characterize the equilibria under hidden informat...
Subjective Expectations in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi
HIV/AIDS Malawi Literacy Numeracy Mortality Risk-reduction strategies
2016/3/18
In this paper we present a newly-developed interactive elicitation methodology to collect probabilistic expectations in a developing country context with low levels of literacy and numeracy, and we ev...
Time preference and its relationship with age,health,and survival probability
subjective discount rate delay discounting expected survival probability health age South Africa
2016/3/18
Although theories from economics and evolutionary biology predict that one’s age, health, and survival probability should be associated with one’s subjective discount rate (SDR), few studies have empi...
The Behavioral Economics of Altruism,Reciprocity,and Transfers within Families and Rural Communities:Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Transfers Triple Dictator Games Trust Games Malawi HIV/AIDS Game theory Transfer behavior
2016/3/18
Transfers between strangers, neighbors, families, and spouses were examined using Triple Dictator Games (TDG, involving only givings) and Trust Games (TG, involving both givings and reciprocations) am...
Who Knows What About Their Pensions?Financial Literacy in the Chilean Individual Account System
Chilean pension system Incentives Benefits Social Protection Survey Financial literacy Pension life cycle Multivariate regression
2016/3/18
This paper examines the question of what affiliates of the Chilean pension system know about their pension system, and whether they respond to incentives to learn more about their benefits depending o...
What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills?Impacts of Pre-Schooling,Schooling and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala
Adult cognitive skills Behavioral determinants Genetic endowments Flynn effect Guatemala
2016/3/18
Most investigations of the importance of and the determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (a) they are produced primarily by schooling and (b) schooling is statistically predetermined. But t...
An Analysis of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Medicare Prescription drugs Health production Dynamic discrete choice Moral hazard
2016/3/18
Medicare has recently experienced the largest expansion of benefits since its in- ception: the inclusion of prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernizati...
Regret, Pride,and the Disposition Effect
Portfolio choice Anticipated regret and pride Individual preference Disposition effect
2016/3/18
We develop a dynamic portfolio choice model which incorporates anticipated regret and pride in individual's preferences and show that those preferences can cause investors to sell winning stocks and h...
While much research has analyzed the access of Mexican immigrants to health benefits while in the US, little is known about how those who return to Mexico fare. We analyze health care access for Mexic...
Between 1970 and 1990 the share of elderly widows living alone grew by 23.2% in the U.S. (from 52.1% to 64.2%), the share living with their children decreased in a similar magnitude, while the other t...
It is well-known that small di§erences in discount rates, persisting over generations, make it much easier to explain US wealth inequality across households as an equilibrium outcome. At the individua...
The Effects of Early Childhood Diseases on Young Adult Health in Guatemala
Childhood morbidity Diseases Health INCAP Guatemala Cardiovascular Type 2 diabetes Metabolic syndrome Height Life outcomes
2016/3/18
This study examines the relationship between early childhood morbidity and young adult health in a poor developing country with a high prevalence of childhood diseases. I take advantage of the rich ob...