H Benitez-Silva, M Buchinsky, HM Chan… - 2000 - nber.org
A pervasive concern with the use of self-reported health and disability measures in
behavioral models is that they are biased and endogenous. A commonly suggested
explanation is that survey respondents exaggerate the severity of health problems and ...
H Benitez-Silva, M Buchinsky, HM Chan, J Rust… - Labour Economics, 1999 - Elsevier
We provide an empirical analysis of the Social Security disability application, award, and
appeal process using the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). We show that the appeal
option increases the award probability from 46% to 73%. However, this comes at the cost ...
H Benitez-Silva, M Buchinsky… - 2004 - nber.org
This paper presents an audit'of the multistage application and appeal process that the US
Social Security Administration (SSA) uses to determine eligibility for disability benefits from
the Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. We study ...
H Benitez-Silva… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005 - MIT Press
This paper tests the rationality of retirement expectations, controlling for sample selection
and reporting biases. We find that retirement expectations in the Health and Retirement
Study are consistent with the rational expectations hypothesis. We also analyze how new ...
H Benıtez-Silva… - manuscript, Yale University, 1999 - ms.cc.sunysb.edu
... All remaining errors are my own. ‡ Economics Department, State University of New York at
Stony Brook. Stony Brook, New York 11794–4384, phone: (631) 632-7551, fax: (631)
632-7516, e-mail: hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu Page 2. 1 Introduction ...
H Benítez-Silva… - Applied Economics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
H Benítez‐Silva… - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Hugo Benítez-Silva Frank Heiland The Social Security Earnings Test and
Work Incentives Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 26, No. 3,
527–555 (2007) © 2007 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis ...
H Benitez-Silva… - Journal of health economics, 2008 - Elsevier
Expected longevity is an important factor influencing older individuals' decisions such as
consumption, savings, purchase of life insurance and annuities, claiming of Social Security
benefits, and labor supply. It has also been shown to be a good predictor of actual ...
S Cheidvasser… - Labour, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
... Correspondence: Sofia Cheidvasser — Hugo Benítez-Silva (author for correspondence),
Department of Economics, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384, USA. Tel: 631
632 7551; Fax: 631 632 7516; E-mail: hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu. ...
H Benıtez-Silva - manuscript. Yale University, 2000 - Citeseer
... All remaining errors are my own. ‡ Economics Department, State University of New York at
Stony Brook. Stony Brook, New York 11794–4384, phone: (631) 632-7551, fax: (631)
632-7516, e-mail: hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu Page 2. 1 Introduction ...
H Benítez-Silva, DS Dwyer, WR Gayle… - Empirical Economics, 2008 - Springer
... suggestions. Any remaining errors are the authors'. H. Benítez-Silva (B) · DS Dwyer ·
TJ Muench Department of Economics, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
11794-4384, USA e-mail: hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu W.-R ...
H Benítez-Silva, S Eren, F Heiland… - Economics Working …, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. Working Paper No. 571 How Well Do Individuals Predict the Selling Prices
of Their Homes? by Hugo Benítez-Silva SUNY–Stony Brook Selcuk Eren The Levy
Economics Institute Frank Heiland Florida State University ...
H Benítez-Silva, S Brook, DS Dwyer, F Heiland… - 2009 - Citeseer
CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): Despite the
persistent increase in life expectancy, combined with an increasing penalty for earlier benefit
take-up under the Old Age Benefits Program of Social Security, people continue to claim benefits ...
H Benítez‐Silva, R Disney… - Economic Policy, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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J Rust, M Buchinsky… - manuscript University of …, 2001 - gemini.econ.umd.edu
The life-cycle model has been a cornerstone of economics for over 50 years, yet surprisingly
only within the last few years have economists begun to consider how to estimate and test it.
Although economists such as Bernheim (1997) have claimed that observed behavior is ...
H Benítez-Silva… - Labour Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
H Benitez-Silva, DS Dwyer… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The need for Social Security Reform in the next years is hardly a matter of debate.
Therefore, the widespread believe among Americans that Social Security will not be able to
pay benefits in the long run at the level that was anticipated, does not come as a surprise. ...
H Benítez-Silva… - Department of Economics Working …, 2002 - ideas.repec.org
More detailed search. Retirement Expectations Formation Using the Health and
Retirement Study. Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related
research | Statistics. Author Info. Hugo Benitez-Silva and Debra Dwyer. ...
[CITATION] Job search behavior of older Americans
H Benitez Silva - 2005, http://www. be. edu/crr, 2003
H Benitez-Silva - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper presents one of the first formal dynamic models of job search by older
individuals. It also presents an empirical analysis of job search behavior among this
population using the Health and Retirement Study. Several factors currently compound to ...
H Benitez-Silva… - … Center Research Paper No. WP 2003 …, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper tests the Rational Expectations (RE) hypothesis regarding retirement
expectations, controlling for sample selection, reporting biases, and unobserved
heterogeneity. We find that retirement expectations in the Health and Retirement Study ( ...
H Benítez-Silva, N Yin - 2008 - handle.digital.csic.es
... project. ‡ Corresponding Author: Department of Economics. SUNY-Stony Brook.
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384. Phone: (631) 632-7551; Fax: (631) 632-7516; e-mail:
hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu Page 2. 2 1. Introduction ...
H Benitez-Silva… - Department of Economics …, 2000 - ideas.repec.org
This paper uses the only representative sample of the Russian Federation, the Russian
Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, to estimate the returns to education in this ex-communist
country. This is one of the first studies to tackle this classic issue in labor economics with ...
HBS Sheidvasser - Department of Economics Working …, 2000 - econpapers.repec.org
This paper uses the only representative sample of the Russian Federation, the Russian
Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, to estimate the returns to education in this ex-communist
country. This is one of the first studies to tackle this classic issue in labor economics with ...
YK Bae… - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. Abstract The number of automobile recalls in the US has increased sharply
in the last two decades, and the numbers of units involved are often counted in the
millions. In 2010 alone, over 20 million vehicles were recalled ...
H Benítez-Silva, DS Dwyer… - … Research Center Research …, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. Working Paper WP 2003-059 Project #: UM02-11 MR RC http://ssrn.com/abstract=
1092143 Expectations in Micro Data: Rationality Revisited Hugo Benítez-Silva, Debra S. Dwyer,
Wayne-Roy Gayle, and Thomas J. Muench Michigan University of Research Retirement ...
M Buchinsky, J Rust… - 2000 - Citeseer
Abstract or do they capture the important dynamic elements of the decision processes. The
DP model we will develop will circumvent these shortcomings, providing a tractable
framework for analyzing individual behavior and well-being, and forecasting their ...
H Benítez-Silva, B Demiralp… - University of Michigan Retirement …, 2009 - nber.org
Page 1. Social Security Literacy and Retirement Well-Being† Hugo Benítez-Silva
SUNY-Stony Brook Berna Demiralp Old Dominion University Zhen Liu University
at Buffalo August 9, 2009 Abstract We build upon the growing ...
S Cheidvasser… - New York: Stony Brook University, 2000 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper uses the only representative sample of the Russian Federation, the
Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, to estimate the returns to education in this ex-
communist country. This is one of the first studies to tackle this classic issue in labor ...
H Benitez-Silva… - SUNY-Stony Brook, 2004 - ms.cc.sunysb.edu
... the authors'. ‡ Department of Economics. SUNY-Stony Brook. Stony Brook, NY
11794-4384. Fax: (631) 632-7516. hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu and
dsdwyer@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Page 2. 1 1. Introduction The Health and ...
YK BAE… - Economic Inquiry, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
... Phone 1-631-632-7551, Fax 1-631-632-7516, E-mail hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu in the
5,811,000 police-reported motor vehicle traffic crashes. More than 2.35 million people were injured,
and 4,146,000 crashes involved property damage only (NHTSA 2009a). ...
H Benitez-Silva… - Department of Economics …, 2006 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. The Social Security Earnings Test Revisited: Information,
Distortions, and Costs. Hugo Benitez-Silva and Frank Heiland. No 06-04, Department of
Economics Working Papers from Stony Brook University, Department of Economics. ...
H Benítez-Silva, S Eren, F Heiland… - Cityscape, 2010 - JSTOR
... Values, and Housing Prices Hugo Benitez-Silva The State Universityof New York-Stony Brook
Selcuk Eren LevyEconomics Institute of Bard College Frank Heiland The City University of New
York-Baruch College Sergi Jimenez-Martin Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and FEDEA ...
H Benitez-Silva… - Department of Economics Working …, 2005 - ideas.repec.org
The number of automobile recalls in the US has sharply increased in the last decade and a
half, and the number of units involved in these recalls are often counted in the millions. In
2006 alone, over 10.6 million vehicles were recalled in the United States. However, there ...
H Benıtez-Silva… - SUNY-Stony Brook WP, 2006 - economics.ca
... appropriate measure of health dynamics. JEL codes: I12, J14 Keywords: Expected
Longevity, Health Status, Health Flows, Panel Data, Health and Retire- ment Study ¢
hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu. Benıtez-Silva is grateful for ...
[CITATION] Labor supply flexibility and portfolio choice: Testing the implications of a dynamic model
H Benítez-Silva - 2001 - … Paper, State University of New York …
[CITATION] John Rust (1999), lHow large is the bias in self-reported disability
H Benitez-Silva, M Buschinski, HM Chan… - l, Working paper Brown University
H Benítez-Silva,
E Boz, M Buchinsky, JB Nichols… - Ann Arbor, 2005 - eriu.sph.umich.edu
... HEALTH STATUS, INSURANCE, AND EXPENDITURES IN THE TRANSITION FROM
WORK TO RETIREMENT Hugo Benítez-Silva Economics Department SUNY-Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu ...
H Benítez-Silva, R Disney… - Documentos de trabajo ( …, 2009 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Page 1. Disability, Capacity for Work and the Business Cycle: An International Perspective by
Hugo-Benítez-Silva * Richard Disney ** Sergi Jiménez-Martín *** Documento de Trabajo
2009-28 Economía de la Salud y Hábitos de Vida FEDEA – “la Caixa” September 2009 ...
[CITATION] A comparison of discrete and parametric methods for continuous-state dynamic programming problems. Computing in Economics and Finance 2000 24
H Benitez-Silva, J Rust, G Hitsch, G Pauletto… - Society for Computational …, 2000
H Benıtez-Silva - manuscript. SUNY-Stony Brook, 2002 - ms.cc.sunysb.edu
... notice, is given to the source. ‡ Economics Department, State University of New York at
Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384, phone: (631) 632- 7551, fax: (631) 632-7516,
e-mail: hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu Page 2. 1 Introduction ...
H Benitez-Silva - Computing in Economics and Finance 2001, 2001 - ideas.repec.org
This paper presents a dynamic model of job search behavior over the Life Cycle. Individuals
endogenously make consumption-saving, labor-leisure, and search decisions under capital,
lifetime and wage uncertainty. We extend recent research on these types of stochastic ...
[CITATION] The educated Russian's curse: returns to education in the Russian federation during the 1990s, Labor 21 (1)(2007)
S Cheidvasser… - Full Text via CrossRef| View Record in Scopus| Cited …
H Benítez-Silva… - … Center Research Paper No. WP 2003 …, 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. Working Paper WP 2003-062 Project #: UM03-11 MR RC http://ssrn.com/abstract=
1092151 Expectation Formation of Older Married Couples and the Rational Expectations
Hypothesis Hugo Benítez-Silva and Debra S. Dwyer Michigan University of Research Retirement ...
[CITATION] Dynamic Models of Retirement and Disability
J Rust, M Buchinsky… - 2002 - Working Paper
H Benitez-Silva… - 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In the past few years, the Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance benefit
system in the United States has undergone some of the most significant changes since its
inception. In a short period of time, we have seen the implementation of the phased ...
H Benítez-Silva - manuscript, SUNY-Stony Brook, 2010 - ms.cc.sunysb.edu
... the first version of this piece. ‡ Department of Economics, SUNY-Stony Brook. Stony
Brook, New York 11794-4384. e-mail: hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu. Page 2.
2 1. Introduction and Motivation One of the main purposes ...
H Benıtez-Silva… - manuscript. Yale University, 2000 - ms.cc.sunysb.edu
... All remaining errors are my own. ‡ Economics Department, State University of New York at Stony
Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384, phone: (631) 632-7551, fax: (631) 632-7516, e-mail:
hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu, webpage: http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/ hbenitezsilv Page 2. ...
H Benıtez-Silva, JI Garcıa-Pérez… - 2009 - nber.org
Page 1. A Cross Country Comparison of the Effects of Social Security Policies and Employment
Uncertainty on the Labor Supply and Claiming Behavior of Older Workers∗ Hugo Benıtez-Silva†
J. Ignacio Garcıa-Pérez‡ Sergi Jiménez-Martın§ June 26, 2009 Abstract ...
H Benıtez-Silva, JI Garcıa-Pérez… - 2011 - webmeets.com
... The usual disclaimer applies. † SUNY at Stony Brook, hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu ‡
Universidad Pablo de Olavide and FEDEA, jigarper@upo.es § Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona GSE and FEDEA, sergi.jimenez@upf.edu 1 Page 2. 1 Introduction and Motivation ...
H Benitez-Silva - 2008 - handle.digital.csic.es
This research tackles one of the most important issues that developed, and many
developing economies, face and will be facing in the next decades, and which is how to
manage and reform disability programs such that they can provide the necessary ...
HBS Rust, M Buchinsky, HM Chan… - Department of …, 1999 - econpapers.repec.org
A pervasive concern with the use of self-reported health and disability measures in
behavioral models is that they are biased and endogenous. A commonly suggested
explanation is that survey respondents exaggerate the severity of health problems and ...
S Eren, S Jiménez Martín, F Heiland… - … de trabajo (FEDEA), 2008 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Page 1. How Well do Individuals Predict the Selling Prices of their Homes? by Hugo
Benítez-Silva*, Selcuk Eren** Frank Heiland*** and Sergi Jiménez-Martín**** DOCUMENTO
DE TRABAJO 2008-10 Serie Nuevos Consumidores CÁTEDRA Fedea – BBVA ...
H Benĩtez-Silva… - 2008 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
... Benĩtez-Silva: Economics Department, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384, phone:
(631) 632-7551, fax: (631) 632-7516, e-mail: hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu Heiland: Economics
Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2180, phone: (850 ...
H Benitez-Silva - Econometric Society World Congress …, 2000 - econometricsociety.org
Abstract This paper presents a dynamic model of the joint labor/leisure and
consumption/saving decision over the life cycle. Such a dynamic model provides a
framework for considering the important policy experiments related to the reforms in Social ...
H Benítez-Silva - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
... The Annuity Puzzle Revisited. Hugo Benitez-Silva SUNY at Stony Brook University, College of
Arts and Science, Department of Economics June 2003 Michigan Retirement Research Center
Research Paper No. ... Contact Information. Hugo Benitez-Silva (Contact Author). ...
H Benitez-Silva… - Department of Economics Working …, 2007 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. An Empirical Study of the Effects of Social Security
Reforms on Claming Behavior and Benefits Receipt Using Aggregate and
Public-Use Administrative Micro Data. Hugo Benitez-Silva and Na Yin. ...
HBS Dwyer - Department of Economics Working Papers, 2002 - econpapers.repec.org
This paper examines how a wide array of factors (household and individual level financial,
health and other taste shifter characteristics) influence retirement plans over time and how
uncertainty affects the strategies that individuals use to plan their retirement years. Using ...
H Benıtez-Silva - ms.cc.sunysb.edu
Page 1. SUNY-Stony Brook. Economics Department Fall 2011: Economics 640 Labor Economics:
Theory and Empirical Applications Tuesdays 3:00pm to 5:50pm. S-632 Professor Hugo
Benıtez-Silva http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~ hbenitezsilv Updated: August 29, 2011. ...
S Eren, H Benítez-Silva… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1939380 Working Paper
No. 689 Effects of Legal and Unauthorized Immigration on the US Social Security System*
by Selçuk Eren Levy Economics Institute of Bard College ...
H Benítez-Silva… - ms.cc.sunysb.edu
... All remaining errors are the authors'. ‡ Department of Economics. SUNY-Stony Brook.
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384. Fax: (631) 632-7516. hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu
and dsdwyer@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Page 2. 1 1. Introduction ...
H Benítez-Silva, S Eren… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1960756 Michigan University of
Research Retirement Center Working Paper WP 2011-250 Project #: UM11-07 MR RC Effects
of Legal and Unauthorized Immigration on the US Social Security System ...
H Benitez-Silva, J Rust, G Hitsch… - … in Economics and …, 2000 - ideas.repec.org
This paper presents a dynamic model of the joint labor/leisure and consumption/saving
decision over the life cycle. Such a dynamic model provides a framework for considering the
important policy experiments related to the reforms in Social Security. We address the role ...
H Benítez-Silva, JI García Pérez… - … de trabajo (FEDEA), 2011 - dialnet.unirioja.es
... The usual disclaimer applies. † SUNY at Stony Brook, hugo.benitez-silva@sunysb.edu ‡
Universidad Pablo de Olavide and FEDEA, jigarper@upo.es § Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona GSE and FEDEA, sergi.jimenez@upf.edu 1 Page 3. 1 Introduction and Motivation ...
H Benitez-Silva - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper uses panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to estimate the
relationship between measures of labor supply flexibility and portfolio-choice decisions by
utility-maximizing individuals. Seminal research on portfolio decisions over the life-cycle, ...
H Benıtez-Silva - ms.cc.sunysb.edu
Page 1. The Neoclassical Labor Supply Model: Intertemporal and Life Cycle Models
Economics 640 Hugo Benıtez-Silva 1 1 Basic Setup The static model of labor supply
discussed so far is quite restrictive. A more realistic model of ...
[CITATION] Perspectives-An Empirical Study of the Effects of Social Security Reforms on Benefit Claiming Behavior and Receipt Using Public-Use Administrative …
H Benitez-Silva… - Social Security Bulletin, 2010
DS Dwyer… - Econometric Society 2004 North …, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
Recent work on retirement age expectation formation of older Americans shows that people
on average form expectations rationally (Benítez-Silva and Dwyer, 2003a) Over time,
individuals efficiently incorporate uncertainty over their own health and socio-economic ...
H Benitez-Silva… - 2010 - ideas.repec.org
The number of automobile recalls in the US has substantially increased over the last two
decades, and after a record of over 30 million cars recalled in 2004, in the last few years it
has consistently reached between 15 and 17 million, and in 2009 alone 16.4 million cars ...
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