Holland, Jennifer Working paper no. 2008-13 Abstract This study investigates the existence and level of the hypothesized economic bar to marriage, the economic threshold couples must reach before they will marry. I consider differences by socioeconomic status in levels of combined couple earnings associated with increased odds of marriage among cohabiting couples. Earnings are most …
Raymo, James, John R. Warren, Megan M. Sweeney, Robert M. Hauser, and JeongHwa Ho Working paper no. 2008-14 Abstract In the rapidly changing context of retirement, it is important to reevaluate theoretical and empirical linkages between individual life histories and patterns of work in later-life. In this study, we use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal …
Raymo, James, John R. Warren, Megan M. Sweeney, Robert Hauser, and JeongHwa Ho Working paper no. 2008-15 Abstract It is increasingly clear that older Americans will need to work longer in order to ensure their own economic well-being and to reduce projected strains on public transfer programs. It is thus important to understand who does …
Andrew, Megan, Erin Ruel, and Robert Hauser Working paper no. 2008-16 Abstract Researchers have explored the considerable negative effect of an individual’s or his spouse’s poor health on their wealth accumulation. Health selection may also operate across generations, affecting the wealth of children whose parents suffer from poor health. We develop an intergenerational model of …
Yu, Yan Working paper no. 2008-17 Abstract The expanding waistlines of the American population have stirred immense research and public interest in how secular changes in body weight affect population health. Big controversies and gaps remain in our understanding about the weight-mortality relationship. This study uses recalled weight at age 25 to classify weight status, …
Yu, Yan Working paper no. 2008-18 Abstract The majority of US adults are overweight or obese. Contemporary cohorts have been gaining weight continuously well up to the oldest ages. The negative health consequences of excess body weight have been well-documented. An intriguing question is whether these consequences decline over the life course, and excess body …
Palloni, Alberto, Robert G. White, and Carolina Milesi Working paper no. 2009-01 Abstract The association between adult socioeconomic status and health status has been alternately attributed to the material effects of economic status, ties between labor productivity and health and cumulative effects of early life socioeconomic status. This paper considers the lasting effects of early …
Palloni, Alberto, Kenya Noronha, and Mary McEniry Working paper no. 2009-02 Abstract Future life expectancy in Latin America and the Caribbean could be compromised. Older people attaining age 60 after the years 1990-2000 are scarred by experiences that could translate into higher susceptibility to chronic conditions and higher mortality. Once dismissed as unthinkable, increases in …
McEniry, Mary Working paper no. 2009-03 Abstract Infant mortality at birth may help illuminate the usefulness of season of birth as an indicator of early life exposures. We obtained data for infant mortality rates (IMR) at the county (municipio) level during the late 1920s-early 1940s in Puerto Rico using historical records and linked IMR with …
Hauser, Robert, and David Weir Working paper no. 2009-05