Economics of Saving and Retirement in the U.S.

A MiCDA Research Signature Theme

The Health and Retirement Study and Panel Study of Income Dynamics provide rich data for analytical research on the economics of aging. Projects using these and other data explore a wide range of topics, including the effect of health and health insurance on retirement, accumulation of wealth, intergenerational transfers, and the effect of aging and cognition on economic behavior.

Modeling the Effect of Health on Retirement (Bound)

Modeling the Impact of Health Insurance on Retirement (Coverage Research Initiative) (Bound)

Economic and Health Determinants of Retirement Behavior Funding (Brown)

Does Greater Prevalence of High Strain Working Conditions Lead to Greater Rates of Early Retirement in Central and Eastern Europe? (Burgard)

Health, Wealth, and Wellbeing over the Life Course and Across Generations (Freedman)

Health Insurance and Labor Supply: Evidence from Hypothetical Shocks to Wealth (Coverage Research Initiative) (Kimball)

Measuring Preferences Needed to Guide Saving and Investing for Retirement (Kimball)

Using the Dynamics of Happiness to Measure the Subjective Importance of Events (Kimball)

A Life-Cycle Analysis of Health, Family Structure, Wealth and Retirement (Laitner)

Costs of Dementia (Langa)

Expanding the National Health Accounts (Langa)

What Triggers Loss of Health Insurance Among the Near-Elderly? (Levy)

Retirement in the 1950's: Rebuilding a Longitudinal Database (Pienta)

Economic Status, Health, and Well-Being Over the Life Course and Across Generations (Schoeni)

Health, Wealth, and Pensions Over the Life Course in a Long Panel (Schoeni)

Intergenerational Family Transfers of Time and Money in the PSID (Schoeni)

Wealth after the Great Recession: Who Lost and Who Recovered? (Schoeni)

NCRN-MN: Linking Surveys to the World: Administrative Data, the Web, and Beyond. Michigan Node of the NSF-Census Research Network (Shapiro)

Supplement to: NCRN-MN: Linking Surveys to the World: Administrative Data, the Web, and Beyond. A Michigan Node of the NSF-Census Research Network (Shapiro)

Subjective Life-Expectancy, Beliefs about HIV Transmission, and Long-term Planning (Thornton)

Health and Retirement Study (Weir)

Widowhood, Divorce and Loss of Health Insurance Among Near Elderly Women: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (Coverage Research Initiative) (Weir)

Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy Using HRS (Willis)

Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy: HRS and Beyond (Willis)

Retirement Savings, Subjective Expectations and Survey Measurement (Willis)

The Impact of Depression and Cognitive Impairment on Enrollment in Medicare Part D (Zivin)