Working Papers

Health and Retirement Effects in a Collective Consumption Model of Elderly Households

Arthur Lewbel Shannon Seitz

Spousal Health Shocks and the Timing of the Retirement Decision in the Face of Forward-Looking Financial Incentives

Courtney Harold Van Houtven Norma B. Coe

Accurately Measuring Health Over the Life Course

Fabian Lange Doug McKee

How Much Is Enough? The Distribution of Lifetime Health Care Costs

Anthony Webb Natalia A. Zhivan

Insult to Injury: Disability, Earnings, and Divorce

Perry Singleton

Medicare Part D and the Financial Protection of the Elderly

Gary V. Engelhardt Jonathan Gruber

What Drives Health Care Spending? Can We Know Whether Population Aging Is A ‘Red Herring’?

Henry J. Aaron

The Implications of Declining Retiree Health Insurance

Courtney Monk Alicia H. Munnell

Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Relative Income of the Elderly and Nonelderly

Gary Burtless Pavel Svaton

Do Health Problems Reduce Consumption at Older Ages?

Barbara A. Butrica Richard W. Johnson Gordon Mermin