The United States spends twice as much per person on pharmaceuticals as European countries, in large part because … reference countries. We estimate a structural model of demand and supply for pharmaceuticals in the US and reference countries …

prescription pharmaceuticals dispensed in hospitals, physician/clinic outpatient facilities, and nursing homes. Thus the CPI …-Rx overlooks the increasingly important specialty pharmaceuticals dispensed in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and physician offices … drug growth differs from that of traditional pharmaceuticals, the CPI-Rx could provide an inaccurate measure of overall …

ordinary least squares, instrumental variables estimates based on the notch suggest that lower-income retirees exhibit … considerable income sensitivity in their use of prescription drugs. Our estimates are potentially useful for thinking about the …

Security income in retirement is a safer source ofincome than earnings earlier in life. The fully adjusted total income …This paper compares the well-being of the Retirement History Survey of the elderly with their own previous levels of … income and economic welfare. Traditional replacement rates are calculated, although a number of shortcomings of such measures …

Social Security retirement benefits can be claimed at any age between 62 and 70, with delayed claiming resulting in … and Retirement study, we show that individuals who turned 62 after 2000 are indeed more likely to delay than those who …

expenditures using individual-level data from the 2006-2018 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) merged with PDP market …