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2007: Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years Learning from International Differences

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith, Arthur van Soest and James Banks

2007: Intertemporal Consumption with Directly Measured Welfare Functions and Subjective Expectations

Arie Kapteyn, Kristin Kleinjans and Arthur van Soest

2007: The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being A Review

Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly

2007: The Effect of Retirement Incentives on Retirement Behavior Evidence from the Self-Employed In the United States and England

Julie Zissimopoulos, Nicole Maestas and Lynn Karoly

2007: Employment and Self-Employment in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Julie Zissimopoulos and Lynn Karoly

2007: Inter-vivos Giving Over the Lifecycle

Michael Hurd, James Smith and Julie Zissimopoulos

2007: Business Cycle Comovement and Labor Market Institutions An Empirical Investigation

Raquel Fonseca, Lise Patureau and Thepthida Sopraseuth

2007: The Impact of Health Insurance Status on Treatment Intensity and Health Outcomes

David Card, Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas

2007: Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods The Case of Medigap

Nicole Maestas, Mathis Schroeder and Dana Goldman

2007: Are 'Webographic' or Attitudinal Questions Useful for Adjusting Estimates From Web Surveys Using Propensity Scoring?

Matthias Schonlau, Arthur van Soest and Arie Kapteyn

2007: Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales

Arthur van Soest, Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon, Arie Kapteyn and James Smith

2007: Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs

Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Thepthida Sopraseuth

2007: Historical and Life Course Timing of the Male Mortality Disadvantage in Europe Epidemiologic Transitions, Evolution, and Behavior

Margaret Weden and Ryan Brown

2007: Twentieth Century U.S. Racial Inequalities in Mortality Changes in the Average Age of Death and the Variability in the Age of Death for White and non-White Men and Women, 1900-2002

Margaret Weden

2007: Bayesian Estimation of Hispanic Fertility Hazards from Survey and Population Data

Michael Rendall, Mark Handcock and Stefan Jonsson

2007: Cross-Country Variation in Obesity Patterns among Older Americans and Europeans

Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur van Soest and Tatiana Andreyeva

2007: Medical Expenditure Risk and Household Portfolio Choice

Dana Goldman and Nicole Maestas

2007: The Kids Are OK Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems

Jui-Chung Li

2007: Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study

Narayan Sastry

2007: Do Elderly Men Respond to Taxes on Earnings? Evidence from the Social Security Retirement Earnings Test

David Loughran and Steven Haider

2007: How did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age affect Retirement Expectations?

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Arthur van Soest

2007: Time-Use in the Older Population Variation by Socio-economic Status and Health

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2007: Employment Protection Laws, Barriers to Entrepreneurship, Financial Markets and Firm Size

Raquel Fonseca and Natalia Utrero-González

2007: Welfare Effects of Social Security Reforms Across Europe The Case of France and Italy

Raquel Fonseca and Thepthida Sopraseuth

2007: Labour-Market Reforms and the Beveridge Curve Some Macro Evidence for Italy

Sergio Destafanis and Raquel Fonseca

2007: Economic Well-Being at Older Ages Income- and Consumption-Based Poverty Measures in the HRS

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2006: Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study

Arie Kapteyn, Pierre-Carl Michaud, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

2006: A Collective Labor Supply Model Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities By Means of Panel Data

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Frederic Vermeulen

2006: Selection Bias in Web Surveys and the Use of Propensity Scores

Matthias Schonlau, Arthur van Soest, Arie Kapteyn and Mick Couper

2006: Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

2006: Why Did the Food Stamp Caseload Decline (and Rise)? Effects of Policies on the Economy

Caroline Danielson and Jacob Klerman

2006: Health Endowments and Parental Investments in Infancy and Early Childhood

Ashlesha Datar, M. Kilburn and David Loughran

2006: Using Stated Preferences Data to Analyze Preferences for Full and Partial Retirement

Arthur van Soest, Arie Kapteyn and Julie Zissimopoulos

2006: Some Answers to The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2006: Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health Outcomes Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates

Marianne Bitler

2005: Obesity and Health in Europeans Ages 50 and Above

Tatiana Andreyeva, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Arthur van Soest

2005: Immigrants and the Labor Market

James Smith

2005: The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

James Smith

2005: The Impact of SES on Health over the Life-Course

James Smith

2005: Reinterpreting the Skill-biased Technological Change Hypothesis A Study of Technology, Firm Size, and Wage Inequality in the California Hospital Industry

Cassandra Guarino

2005: Is Full Better than Half? Examining the Longitudinal Effects of Full-day Kindergarten Attendance

Jill Cannon, Alison Jacknowitz and Gary Painter

2005: Today or Last Year? How Do Interviewees Answer the CPS Health Insurance Questions?

Jeanne Ringel and Jacob Klerman

2005: Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, The Netherlands, and the United States

James Banks, Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

2005: Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe

Pierre-Carl Michaud and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

2005: Under-Reporting of Medicaid and Welfare in the Current Population Survey

Jacob Klerman, Jeanne Ringel and Elizabeth Roth

2005: Multi-Site Implementation Medicaid Section 1931(b) in California

Jacob Klerman and Amy Cox

2005: The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle Anticipated and Actual Declines in Spending at Retirement

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2005: Birth Spacing and Neonatal Mortality in India Dynamics, Frailty, and Fecundity

Sonia Bhalotra and Arthur van Soest

2005: Many Faiths of Many Regions Continuities and Changes Among Religious Adherents Across U.S. Counties

Clifford Grammich

2004: Are There Gains to Delaying Marriage? The Effect of Age at First Marriage on Career Development and Wages

David Loughran and Julie Zissimopoulos

2004: Self-reported Work Disability in the US and The Netherlands

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

2004: The Effects of Birth Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality, Pregnancy Outcomes, and Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh

Julie DaVanzo, Abdur Razzaque, Mizanur Rahman, Lauren Hale, Kapil Ahmed, Mehrab Khan, Golam Mustafa and Kaniz Gausia

2004: The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health Evidence from Medicare

David Card, Carlos Dobkin and Nicole Maestas

2004: Medicaid at Birth, WIC Take Up, and Children's Outcomes

Marianne Bitler and Janet Currie

2004: The Interactive Effect of Birth Weight and Parental Investment on Child Test Scores

David Loughran, Ashlesha Datar and M. Kilburn

2004: Why Did the Welfare Caseload Decline?

Jacob Klerman and Caroline Danielson

2004: International Comparisons of Work Disability

James Banks, Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

2004: A Test for Anchoring and Yea-Saying in Experimental Consumption Data

Arthur van Soest and Michael Hurd

2004: Models for Anchoring and Acquiescence Bias in Consumption Data

Arthur van Soest and Michael Hurd

2004: The Effects of State Regulations on Childcare Prices and Choices

Randal Heeb and M. Kilburn

2004: Self-Employment Trends and Patterns Among Older U.S. Workers

Lynn Karoly and Julie Zissimopoulos

2004: Transitions to Self-Employment at Older Ages The Role of Wealth, Health, Health Insurance, and Other Factors

Julie Zissimopoulos and Lynn Karoly

2004: Welfare Reform and Children's Living Arrangements

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes

2004: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Marriage and Divorce

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach, Hilary Hoynes and Madeline Zavodny

2004: What Mean Impacts Miss Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes

2004: Back to Work Expectations and Realizations of Work after Retirement

Nicole Maestas

2004: Increases in Wealth among the Elderly in the Early 1990s How Much is Due to Survey Design?

Susann Rohwedder, Steven Haider and Michael Hurd

2004: Breakfast of Champions The School Breakfast Program and the Nutrition of Children and Families

Jay Bhattacharya, Janet Currie and Steven Haider

2004: Welfare Reform and Health

Marianne Bitler, Jonah Gelbach and Hilary Hoynes