The U.S. economy experienced a dramatic rise in the price of owner occupied housing during 1999-2007, and then a precipitous decline from 2007 through 2009. In this paper we utilize data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) during 1999-2009 to study first the factors and borrowing...

This article explores representativeness of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) during the period from 1976 to 2007 by comparing earnings equations in the PSID and the Current Population Survey (CPS). We find that CPS-PSID differences in parameter estimates have increased and become...

The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) documentation describes HRS sample weights as post-stratified by age, race/ethnicity, marital status and gender (Ofstedal, et al., 2011). Yet, we find systematic differences between distributions of these variables in the HRS and the Current Population...

Intergenerational transfers are often under-reported in household surveys (Laitner and Sonnega, 2010). This paper demonstrates that over-reporting can be an issue as well. Using data from the 1992-2008 Health and Retirement Study, a biannual longitudinal survey, we find that the first...

Using data from the Current Population Survey, we study self-employment among people with work limitations in the US. With controls for a rich set of covariates and selection into the labor force, self-employment rates are found to be higher among workers with limitations compared to workers...

Using Social Security Administration (SSA) data on employment and Census population estimates, we re-examine the labor supply effect of a public health insurance disenrollment that took place in Tennessee in 2005. The disenrollment left about 4 percent of Tennessee's non-elderly, adult...