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2013: IFLS C-Reactive Protein Data User Guide

Perry Hu, Elizabeth Henny Herningtyas, John Strauss, Eileen Crimmins, Jung Kim and Bondan Sikoki

2013: The Effect of Local Labor Demand Conditions on the Labor Supply Outcomes of Older Americans

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and David Powell

2013: Harmonized LASI Pilot Data Documentation Version A

Sandy Chien, Kevin Feeney, Jenny Liu, Erik Meijer and Jinkook Lee

2013: Fast Methods for Jackknifing Inequality Indices

Lynn Karoly and Carsten Schröder

2013: Individual Behavior as a Pathway Between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany

Iris Kesternich, Bettina Siflinger, James Smith and Joachim Winter

2013: Financial Literacy and Consumer Choice of Health Insurance Evidence from Low-Income Populations in the United States

Sebastian Bauhoff, Katherine Carman and Amelie Wuppermann

2013: Programas de Pensiones No Contributivas y su Viabilidad Financiera El Caso de México

Emma Aguila, Nelly Mejia Gonzalez, Francisco Perez-Arce and Alfonso Rivera Illingworth

2013: Adolescent Friendship Networks and Trajectories of Binge Drinking

Michael Pollard, Harold Green, David Kennedy, Myong-Hyun Go and Joan Tucker

2013: Health Inequalities through the Lens of Health Capital Theory Issues, Solutions, and Future Directions

Titus Galama and Hans van Kippersluis

2013: Disease Incidence and Mortality Among Older Americans and Europeans

Aïda Solé-Auró, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Michael Hurd and Eileen Crimmins

2013: Nonmarital Cohabitation, Marriage, and Health Among Adolescents and Young Adults

Michael Pollard and Kathleen Harris

2013: Designing Better Pension Benefits Statements Current Status, Best Practices and Insights from the Field of Judgment and Decisionmaking

Lauren Mayer, Angela Hung, Joanne Yoong, Jack Clift and Caroline Tassot

2013: Cohabitation and Marriage Intensity Consolidation, Intimacy, and Commitment

Michael Pollard and Kathleen Harris

2013: Pobreza y Vulnerabilidad en México El caso de los Jóvenes que no Estudian ni Trabajan

Emma Aguila, Nelly Mejia Gonzalez, Francisco Perez-Arce and Alfonso Rivera Illingworth

2013: Is A Dream Deferred a Dream Denied? College Enrollment and Time-Varying Opportunity Costs

Francisco Perez-Arce

2013: Optimal Health Insurance and the Distortionary Effects of the Tax Subsidy

David Powell

2013: A New Framework for Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects Nonseparable Disturbance in the Presence of Covariates

David Powell

2012: Can Games Build Financial Capability? Financial Entertainment: A Research Overview

Nicholas Maynard, Preeti Mehta, Jonas Parker and Jeffrey Steinberg

2012: Retiree Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending A Study of Expert Views, Consumer Expectations, and Policy Implications

Allison Hoffman and Howell Jackson

2012: What is the impact of labour market regulation on employment in LICs? How does it vary by gender?

Shanthi Nataraj, Francisco Perez-Arce, Sinduja Srinivasan and Krishna Kumar

2012: Budget Constraints and Son Preference in Educational Investment in Taiwan

Yi-Chun Chang and Jui-Chung Li

2012: Personality, Affects, and Forgiving Behavior in Games

Jui-Chung Li and Yeh-Chen Chen

2012: Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey Evidence from the American Life Panel

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2012: Stock Price Expectations and Stock Trading

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2012: Financial Literacy, Social Perception and Strategic Default

Jeremy Burke and Kata Mihaly

2012: Point and Set Identification in Linear Panel Data Models with Measurement Error

Erik Meijer, Laura Spierdijk and Tom Wansbeek

2012: The Impact of Insecurity on Democracy and Trust in Institutions in Mexico

Luisa Blanco

2012: The Impact of Reform on the Criminal Justice System in Mexico

Luisa Blanco

2012: What Will My Account Really Be Worth? An Experiment on Exponential Growth Bias and Retirement Saving

Gopi Goda, Colleen Manchester and Aaron Sojourner

2012: Empirical Evidence for Decreasing Returns to Scale in a Health Capital Model

Titus Galama, Patrick Hullegie, Erik Meijer and Sarah Outcault

2012: Raising Awareness of Government Initiatives and Tax Time Savings Opportunities

Peter Tufano, Timothy Flacke and Nicholas Maynard

2012: Do Consumers Know How to Value Annuities? Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization

Jeffrey Brown, Arie Kapteyn, Erzo Luttmer and Olivia Mitchell

2012: Barriers to Immigrant Use of Financial Services The Role of Language Skills, U.S. Experience, and Return Migration Expectations

Silvia Barcellos, James Smith, Joanne Yoong and Leandro Carvalho

2012: Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries A Meta-analysis

Juan Saavedra and Sandra Garcia

2012: Male Labor Force Participation and Social Security in Mexico

Emma Aguila

2012: Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study Cognition

Regina Shih, Jinkook Lee and Lopamudra Das

2012: Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study Wealth Measures

Marco Angrisani and Jinkook Lee

2012: Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study Income Measures

Marco Angrisani and Jinkook Lee

2012: Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study Employment and Retirement Measures

Gema Zamarro and Jinkook Lee

2012: Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study Expectations

Adeline Delavande, Jinkook Lee and Joanne Yoong

2012: Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study Financial Transfer

Julie Zissimopoulos, Jinkook Lee and Joanna Carroll

2012: Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study Chronic Medical Conditions

Peifeng Hu and Jinkook Lee

2012: The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe

Iris Kesternich, Bettina Siflinger, James Smith and Joachim Winter

2011: Optimal Financial Literacy and Saving for Retirement

Annamaria Lusardi, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Olivia Mitchell

2011: Age Differences in Daily Social Activities

Christopher Marcum

2011: Why Farmers Sometimes Love Risks Evidence from India

Annemie Maertens, David Just and Amalavoyal Chari

2011: Firing Costs and Flexibility Evidence from Firms' Employment Responses to Shocks in India

Achyuta Adhvaryu, Amalavoyal Chari and Siddharth Sharma

2011: Learning your Child's Price Evidence from Data on Projected Dowry in Rural India

Amalavoyal Chari and Annemie Maertens

2011: How to Improve Social Security Education Retirement Plan Providers' Perspectives

Lisa Schneider and Mathew Greenwald

2011: Testing Educational Tools to Demonstrate Returns to Work for Children Aging Out of the SSI-Disabled Children Program

Richard Burkhauser and Mary Daly

2011: Financial Advisors' Role in Influencing Social Security Claiming

Mathew Greenwald, Andrew Biggs and Lisa Schneider

2011: The Geography of Financial Literacy

Christopher Bumcrot, Judy Lin and Annamaria Lusardi

2011: Encouraging New Hires to Save for Retirement

Robert Clark, Melinda Morrill and Jennifer Maki

2011: Multiple Imputation for Combined-Survey Estimation With Incomplete Regressors In One But Not Both Surveys

Michael Rendall, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Margaret Weden and Zafar Nazarov

2011: Trends and Educational Differentials in Marriage Formation Among Taiwanese Women

Yi-Chuan Chang and Jui-Chung Li

2011: Differences by Mother's Education in the Effect of Childcare on Child Obesity

Zafar Nazarov and Michael Rendall

2011: Cognitive Health of Older Indians Individual and Geographic Determinants of Female Disadvantage

Jinkook Lee, Regina Shih, Kevin Feeney and Kenneth Langa

2011: Markers and Drivers Cardiovascular Health of Middle-Age and Older Indians

Jinkook Lee, P. Arokiasamy, Amitabh Chandra, Peifeng Hu, Jenny Liu and Kevin Feeney

2011: The Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Health and Investments in Rural India

Ashlesha Datar, Jenny Liu, Sebastian Linnemayr and Chad Stecher

2011: Information and Persuasion Achieving Safe Water Behaviors in Kenya

Jill Luoto, David Levine and Jeff Albert

2011: Factors that Influence Successful Start-Up of Home Visiting Sites Lessons Learned from Replicating the First Born® Program

M. Kilburn and Jill Cannon

2011: International Comparisons in Health Economics Evidence from Aging Studies

James Banks and James Smith

2011: Intergenerational Correlations of Health Among Older Adults Empirical Evidence from Indonesia

Younoh Kim, Bondan Sikoki, John Strauss and Firman Witoelar

2011: Intervivos Giving Over the Lifecycle

Michael Hurd, James Smith and Julie Zissimopoulos

2011: Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and Terrorism Do Natural Disasters Incite Terror?

Claude Berrebi and Jordan Ostwald

2011: The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada

Pierre Lefebvre, Philip Merrigan and Pierre-Carl Michaud

2011: Economic Preparation for Retirement

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2011: Why Do Some Irish Drink So Much? Family, Historical and Regional Effects on Students' Alcohol Consumption and Subjective Normative Thresholds

Liam Delaney, Arie Kapteyn and James Smith

2011: Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China Evidence from CHARLS

Xiaoyan Lei, John Strauss, Meng Tian and Yaohui Zhao

2011: The Effect of Education on Health Cross-Country Evidence

Raquel Fonseca and Yuhui Zheng

2011: Exporting Poor Health The Irish in England

Liam Delaney, Alan Fernihough and James Smith

2011: Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes between England and the United States

James Banks, Zoe Oldfield and James Smith

2011: Stereotypes and Madrassas Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Adeline Delavande and Basit Zafar

2011: Are Americans Really Less Happy With Their Incomes?

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

2011: Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior

Jeffrey Brown, Arie Kapteyn and Olivia Mitchell

2011: Income and Poverty among Older Koreans Relative Contributions of and Relationship between Public and Family Transfers

Jinkook Lee and Drystan Phillips

2011: Trends in the Employment of Married Mothers of Preschool-Aged Children in Taiwan

Yu-Han Jao and Jui-Chung Li

2011: The Impact of Cutting Education Expenditures The Case of Mexico in the 1980s

Francisco Perez-Arce

2011: The Effect of Education on Time Preferences

Francisco Perez-Arce

2011: Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling Gender Spillovers in Corporate Leadership

David Matsa and Amalia Miller

2011: Anchoring Vignettes and Response Consistency

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith, Arthur van Soest and Hana Vonkova

2011: The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution Evidence from Unconditional Quantile Regression with Firm Fixed Effects

David Powell and Joachim Wagner

2011: Employment Status, Quality of Matching, and Retirement in Korea Evidence from Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging

Chulhee Lee and Jinkook Lee

2011: Family Labor Participation and Child Care Decisions The Role of Grannies

Gema Zamarro

2011: Learning versus Stealing How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth

Ann Harrison, Leslie Martin and Shanthi Nataraj

2011: A Contribution to Health Capital Theory

Titus Galama

2011: Toward Standardization of Benefit-Cost Analyses of Early Childhood Interventions

Lynn Karoly

2011: What is the Cost of Married Women's Paid Work?

Seonglim Lee, Jinkook Lee and Yunhee Chang

2011: Heterogeneity in Income Tax Incidence Are the Wages of Dangerous Jobs More Responsive to Tax Changes than the Wages of Safe Jobs?

David Powell

2011: Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision

David Powell and Hui Shan