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The United States Social Security Amendments of 1983 (SSA1983) increased the full retirement age (FRA) and increased penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applications and receipt by making...
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We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … aging follow a particular regularity, akin to the compensation effect of mortality. Health deficits converge for men and …
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I consider the popular argument of Medicaid crowding out demand for private long-term care insurance. I show that this argument rests on a wrong counterfactual comparison. Furthermore, I question the welfare-decreasing impact of Medicaid as it neglects a large value of the program in providing...
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We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … for African Americans compared to Caucasians. In non-linear regressions, we find that regional differences in aging follow a …
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