Upcoming research on cognition & long-term care insurance featured in latest newsletter
May 11, 2017
Our spring newsletter is now online with coverage of the annual MRRC Workshop. bit.ly/2pCciAd
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Health reform has reduced the number early retirees without health insurance
April 21, 2017
By age 64, more than half of all workers are retired despite the fact that Medicare doesn’t kick in for most of them until age 65. The decline of employer-sponsored health insurance for retirees means that many people who make…
Read moreBuilding a better model of how retirement, health, and consumption interact
March 24, 2017
MRRC researchers John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri recently built a model to look into how health and consumption intertwine, using an Euler equation to examine consumption in relation to utility. In this instance, consumption represents spending and health investments,…
Read moreResearcher Q&A Part 2: Olivia S. Mitchell looks at why people do or don’t buy Long-Term Care Insurance
November 18, 2016
Here’s the second part of our discussion with MRRC researcher Olivia S. Mitchell on her 2015 project with Daniel Gottlieb, “Narrow Framing and Long-Term Care Insurance.” This has been edited for length and clarity. I think a lot of our readers are not…
Read moreResearcher Q&A, Part 1: Olivia S. Mitchell looks at why people do or don’t buy Long-Term Care Insurance
November 18, 2016
We talked to MRRC researcher Olivia S. Mitchell about her 2015 project with Daniel Gottlieb, “Narrow Framing and Long-Term Care Insurance.” This two-part interview has been edited for length and clarity. What led you to look at whether people buy long-term care insurance…
Read moreResearchers find that Social Security reform decreases Medicare spending
November 18, 2016
The existing literatures on Social Security and Medicare explore each of these significant allocations of federal budget in isolation. There has been no work to date on the manner in which these programs interact with one another. Did Social Security Amendment…
Read moreMore on ‘Couples’ and Singles’ Savings After Retirement’
November 18, 2016
In order to study the hypothetical effects of expanding Medicaid, Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French, and John Bailey Jones (DFJ) have written a fairly detailed model to study household saving and dissaving (see previous post). To make that possible, they constructed a novel measure…
Read moreLooking at ‘Couples’ and Singles’ Savings After Retirement’
November 18, 2016
There’s some debate in the United States about extending Medicaid to more people. Loosening criteria for means-tested public health care insurance such as Medicaid would allow more people to benefit from health care they may otherwise be unable to afford,…
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