Category: working paper

Michael J. Culbertson Working Paper no. 2025-02 Abstract National surveys are designed to yield population estimates, but obtaining valid estimates requires respecting complex survey design. Inverse probability weighting and multiple imputation are both approaches to handle differences between analytic samples and the populations they are intended to represent. This guide describes the application of these …

Noah Hirschl, Christine R. Schwartz, and Elia Boschetti Working Paper no. 2022-01 Abstract Recent social and economic trends in the United States including increasing inequality, women’s growing educational advantage, and the rise of online dating have ambiguous implications for patterns of educational homogamy. In this research note, we examine changes in educational assortative mating in …

James M. Raymo and Jia WangWorking paper no. 2020-02 Abstract This paper provides an empirical basis upon which to build research on the demography of loneliness at older ages. We proceed in two steps. In the first step, we use published life tables and data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2016) to calculate lonely …

McEniry Mary, Alberto Palloni, Yiyue Huangfu, and Hiram Beltrán-SánchezWorking paper no. 2020-01 Abstract Middle- and high-income settings have achieved high life expectancy at older ages but through disparate pathways. Rapid and dramatic mortality decline largely in the context of stagnant improvement in standard of living occurred during the mid-twentieth century in many middle-income countries leading …