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

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; van soest, arthur; Andreyeva, Tatiana - RAND - 2007

While the fraction of obese people is not as large in Europe as in the United States, obesity is becoming an important … Health and Retirement Study in the U.S. (HRS), this paper analyzes the correlates of obesity in the population ages 50 and … follows: 1) Obesity rates differ substantially on both sides of the Atlantic and across European countries, with most of the …

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

Hurd, Michael D.; Rohwedder, Susann - RAND - 2006

According to economic theory, well-being or utility depends on consumption. However, at the household level, total consumption is rarely measured because its collection requires a great deal of survey time. As a result income has been widely used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates....

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Life Satisfaction

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur - RAND - 2009

The authors analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. They find global life satisfaction of happiness is well-described by four domains: job or daily...

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Poverty, Public Assistance, and Children in Intact and Single-Mother Families.

Hao, L. - RAND - 1996

This article examines the effects of poverty, public assistance, and family structure on school-age children's home environment and developmental outcomes.

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Grandparent Care and Welfare: Assessing the Impact of Public Policy on Split and Three Generation Families.

Cox, Amy G.; Pebley, Anne R. - RAND - 1999

Grandparent caregiving has received increased attention in recent years, and grandparent-grandchild families have generated several public policy concerns, including whether grandparent-led families face barriers to obtaining public assistance. The authors address this question by comparing the...

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Grossman's Missing Health Threshold

Galama, Titus J.; Kapteyn, Arie - RAND - 2009

The authors present a generalized solution to Grossman's model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an "optimal" level without adjustment costs. The Grossman model then predicts the existence of a health...

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Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers

Mullen, Kathleen J.; Frank, Richard G.; Rosenthal, … - RAND - 2009

Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool for improving quality of care, there is little empirical basis for its effectiveness. The authors use data from published performance reports of physician medical groups contracting with...

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Insights Into Heaping From Retrospective Breastfeeding Data.

Klerman, J.A. - RAND - 1996

Recall bias is a pervasive problem in the analysis of retrospective data (Shyrock et al., 1973; Ewbank, 1981). The problem is a recurrent concernin the litterature on the determinants of breastfeeding duration, its trend over time, and the effect of breastfeeding on infant mortality.

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Family Structure and the Risk of Nursing Home Admission.

Freedman, V.A. - RAND - 1996

Using data from the New Haven EPESE, we examine the relationship between family structure and the risk of first nursing home admission.

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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur - RAND - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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