“Do Income Projections Affect Retirement Saving?” by Gopi Shah Goda, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, and Aaron Sojourner (IB No. 13-4, April 2013, .pdf format, 7p.).
crr.bc.edu/briefs/do-income-projections-affect-retirement-saving/
April 2, 2013
CAAR – Employee Benefit Research Institute Periodical – April 2, 2013
EBRI Notes (Vol. 34, No. 3, April 2013, .pdf format). The articles in this issue are: “A Little Help: The Impact of On-line Calculators and Financial Advisors on Setting Adequate Retirement-Savings Targets: Evidence from the 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey,” by Jack VanDerhei and Nevin Adams; and, “‘Post’ Script: What’s Next for Employment-Based Health Benefits?” by Nevin Adams.
www.ebri.org/publications/notes/index.cfm?fa=notesDisp&content_id=5180
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CAAR – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Article Abstract – April 2, 2013
“Atomic structure and hierarchical assembly of a cross-{beta} amyloid fibril,” by Anthony W. P. Fitzpatrick, Galia T. Debelouchina, Marvin J. Bayro, Daniel K. Clare, Marc A. Caporini, Vikram S. Bajaj, Christopher P. Jaroniec, Luchun Wang, Vladimir Ladizhansky, Shirley A. Müller, Cait E. MacPhee, Christopher A. Waudby, Helen R. Mott, Alfonso De Simone, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Helen R. Saibil, Michele Vendruscolo, Elena V. Orlova, Robert G. Griffin, and Christopher M. Dobson (Vol. 110, No. 14, April 2, 2013, .pdf and HTML format, p. 5468-5473). PNAS is providing open access to the full-text of this article.
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CAAR – Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research Data/National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program Data Release – April 2, 2013
ICPSR’s National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program announced the release of the following new dataset that may be of interest to researchers of aging on Mar. 31, 2013. Note: Some ICPSR studies are available only to ICPSR member institutions. To find out whether your organization is a member, and whether or not it supports ICPSR Direct downloading, see:
www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/administration/institutions
- HIV Stigma in a Population of Adults Age 50 and Over in the Pacific Northwest, 2003-2005 (ICPSR 33242)
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CAAR – Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers – April 2, 2013
A. “The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence,” by Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell (WP2013-02, March 2013, .pdf format, 63p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
www.pensionresearchcouncil.org/publications/document.php?file=1040
B. “Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization: Do Consumers Know How to Value Annuities?” by Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, Erzo F. P. Luttmer, and Olivia S. Mitchell (WP2013-01, March 2013, .pdf format, 50p.). Note: Links to the abstract and full-text can be found at:
www.pensionresearchcouncil.org/publications/document.php?file=1040
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CAAR – US Bureau of Economic Analysis Working Paper – April 2, 2013
“A Regression-Based Medical Care Expenditure Index for Medicare Beneficiaries,” by Anne E. Hall, Tina Highfill (WP2013-4, March 2013, .pdf format, 39p.).
Abstract:
We construct a disease-based price index for Medicare beneficiaries using data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey from 2001-2005. We create the index by modeling total health-care expenditure as a function of the diagnoses of 27 illnesses. The coefficients from the regression are used to divide up each beneficiary’s spending (following the method outlined in Trogdon et al. 2008) among his or her diagnosed illnesses. Spending for each illness is then aggregated over beneficiaries. An average price for each illness is calculated by dividing the total expenditure by the number of patients with the illness. We then use the prices to construct a Laspeyres price index for medical care indexed to 2001. This index grows at an average annual rate of about 6% from 2001 to 2005. Average nominal expenditure by Medicare beneficiaries grows at an average annual rate of 8.6% but, after nominal expenditure is deflated with the price index, average real expenditure grows by only 2.3% per year.
www.bea.gov/papers/pdf/a_regression_base_medical_care_expenditure_index_for_medicare.pdf
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CAAR – Tables of Contents – April 2, 2013
Journal of Parkinson’s Disease (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2013).
iospress.metapress.com/content/x7246m80h058/
Research on Aging (Vol. 35, No. 3, May 2013).
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