“The increasing mortality advantage of the married: The role played by education,” by Oystein Kravdal, Emily Grundy, and Katherine Keenan (Vol. 38, Article 20, January 2018, .pdf format, p. 471-512).
February 5, 2018
CAAR – Demographic Research Article – February 5, 2018
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August 16, 2017
CAAR – Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Issue Brief – August 16, 2017
“Do Women Still Spend Most of Their Lives Married?” by Alicia H. Munnell, Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher, and Sara Ellen King (IB No. 17-14, August 2017, .pdf format, 6p.).
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February 8, 2017
CAAR – Rand Corporation Labor and Population Program Working Paper – February 8, 2017
“Household Retirement Saving: The Location of Savings Between Spouses,” by Katherine Grace Carman and Angela Hung (WR-1166, January 2017, .pdf format, 62p.). Note: Links to the abstract and the full text of the paper available at:
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October 17, 2016
CAAR – National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper – October 17, 2016
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A. “Changes in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women,” by Claudia Olivetti and Dana E. Rotz (w22738, October 2016, .pdf format, 48p.).
B. “Estimating the Heterogeneous Welfare Effects of Choice Architecture: An Application to the Medicare Prescription Drug Insurance Market,” by Jonathan D. Ketcham, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, and Christopher A. Powers (w22732, October 2016, .pdf format, 57p.).
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June 9, 2016
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September 23, 2013
CAAR – National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers – September 23, 2013
A. “Spousal Health Effects – the Role of Selection,” by James Banks, Elaine Kelly, and James P. Smith (w19438, September 2013, .pdf format, 37p.).
Abstract:
In this paper, we investigate the issue of partner selection in the health of individuals who are at least fifty years old in England and the United States. We find a strong and positive association in family background variables including education of partners and their parents. Adult health behaviors such as smoking, drinking, and exercise are more positively associated in England compared to the United States. Childhood health indicators are also positively associated across partners.
We also investigated pre and post partnership smoking behavior of couples. There exists strong positive assortative mating in smoking in that smokers are much more likely to partner with smokers and non-smokers with non-smokers. This relationship is far stronger in England compared to the United States. In the United States, we find evidence of asymmetric partner influence in smoking in that men’s pre marriage smoking behavior influences his female partner’s post marriage smoking behavior but there does not appear to be a parallel influence of women’s pre-marriage smoking on their male partner’s post-marital smoking. These relationships are much more parallel across genders in England.
B. “Wages, Pensions, and Public-Private Sector Compensation Differentials for Older Workers,” by Philipp Bewerunge and Harvey S. Rosen (w19454, September 2013, .pdf format, 41p.).
Abstract:
We use a sample of full-time workers over 50 years of age from the 2004 and 2006 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to investigate whether workers in federal, state, and local government receive more generous wage and pension compensation than private sector workers, ceteris paribus. With respect to hourly remuneration (wages plus employer contributions to defined contribution plans), federal workers earn a premium of about 28 log points, taking differences in employee characteristics into account. However, there are no statistically discernible differences between state and local workers and their private sector counterparts, ceteris paribus. These findings are about the same whether or not indicators of occupation are included in the model. On the other hand, pension wealth accumulation is greater for employees in all three government sectors than for private sector workers, even after taking worker characteristics into account. As a proportion of the hourly private-sector wage, the hourly equivalent public-private differentials are about 17.2 percent, 13.4 percent, and 12.6 percent for federal, state, and local workers, respectively. We find no evidence that highly-educated individuals are penalized by taking jobs in the public sector, either with respect to wages or pension wealth.
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