Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … methodology to study retirement behavior used in the second phase to focus in particular on the effects of the DI programs. The …

physicians in the form of visits by pharmaceutical representatives (known as detailing) and drug samples provided to physicians … may play a role in raising healthcare costs and may unduly affect physicians' prescribing habits towards more expensive … detailing impacts physicians' prescribing behaviors. Specifically, we examine prescriptions and promotion for a particular drug …

, employment, costs, and quality of providing certain types of medical services. We find that when only physicians are allowed to …

Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians' behavior and medical costs. This …

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we examine the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on retirement …. We first calculate retirements (and in related analyses changes in expected ages of retirement and/or Social Security … claiming) between 2010, before ACA, and 2014, after ACA, for those with health insurance at work but not in retirement. This …

The U.S. economy has recently experienced two, seemingly unrelated, phenomena: a large increase in post-retirement life … rely on financial intermediaries to save for post-retirement consumption. When expecting to live longer, they rely more …