Economics of Saving and Retirement in the U.S.

A MiCDA Research Signature Theme

MiCDA researchers examine the complex decisions involved both in accumulating sufficient assets for retirement and in spending them once retired. They also investigate factors affecting financial management at older ages, examining correlations among cognitive, educational, and financial performance measures.

Inequality and Mobility over the Past Half Century Using the Synergistic Distributions of Income, Consumption, and Wealth ()

Examining self-employment and the transition to retirement among older adults in the United States (Abramowitz)

Advance Care Planning and Health Care Utilization in Aging Women (Bynum)

Boomers, Entrepreneurship, and Retirement 2030 (Clarke)

Economic distress and growing educational disparities in life expectancy: Weathering, high effort coping, and despair (Geronimus)

Labor Demand Aspects of Working Longer - A Pilot Study using an Employer-employee Survey in the ALP (Helppie-McFall)

Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC) (Laitner)

Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) 2015 (Laitner)

University of Michigan Retirement Research Center 2013-2018 (Laitner)

Expanding International Microdata Access: Linked German Survey and Administrative Data (Levenstein)

The impact of airborne particles and ozone on cognition, mobility, and health care spending at older ages: Evidence from a nationally-representative longitudinal cohort (Mendes de Leon)

Causes and Consequences of Healthcare Efficiency (Norton)

Essays on the Heterogeneous Effects of Medicare Advantage (Norton)

Asset Poverty in Canada over Time and in Comparison to the United States (Pfeffer)

Poverty Dynamics in the United States (Pfeffer)