MD Hurd… - Journal of Human resources, 1995 - JSTOR
In the Health and Retirement Study respondents were asked about the chances they would
live to 75 or to 85. We analyze these responses to determine if they behave like probabilities
of survival, if their averages are close to average probabilities in the population, and if they ...
K McGarry… - Journal of Human Resources, 1995 - JSTOR
Recent work by a number of economists has opened a debate about the role played by
intergenerational transfers. Using the new Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we are
better able to address the issues involved. Contrary to the current literature on bequests, ...
MD Hurd… - The Economic Journal, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Although expectations, or more precisely subjective probability distributions, play a
prominent role in models of decision making under uncertainty, we have had very little data
on them. Based on panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, we study the ...
K McGarry - 1997 - nber.org
Empirical work on intergenerational transfers has focused on distinguishing between
altruistic and exchange motivated behavior. However, these two models are unable to
explain the strong tendency for estates to be divided equally across children, while inter ...
A Finkelstein… - American Economic Review, 2006 - nber.org
This paper examines empirically the implications of multiple dimensions of private
information in insurance markets. Focusing on the long term care insurance market, we
demonstrate that two types of people purchase long-term care insurance: individuals with ...
K McGarry, RF Schoeni - The Journals …, 1997 - psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals. …
Abstract When individuals fall on hard times, can they rely on their family for financial
support? In view of proposed reductions in public assistance programs, it is important to
understand the mechanisms through which families provide support for their members. In ...
K McGarry - 2002 - nber.org
The choice of a retirement date is one of the most important decisions facing older workers. It
is a decision that will affect their economic well-being for the remainder of their lives. One of
the factors that undoubtedly impacts this choice is the worker's health. However, the many ...
MD Hurd… - Journal of Health Economics, 1997 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to find how health insurance influences the use of health care
services by the elderly. On the basis of the first wave of the Asset and Health Dynamics
Survey, we find that those who are the most heavily insured use the most health care ...
A Light… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998 - JSTOR
This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to distinguish
empirically between mover-stayer," search good," and" experience good" models of job
mobility. We estimate wage models in which the pattern of overall job mobility affects both ...
K McGarry… - Demography, 2000 - Springer
Abstract The percentage of elderly widows living alone rose from 18% in 1940 to 62% in
1990, while the percentage living with adult children declined from 59% to 20%. This study
finds that income growth, particularly increased Social Security benefits, was the single ...
A Finkelstein… - 2003 - nber.org
This paper examines the standard test for asymmetric information in insurance markets: that
its presence will result in a positive correlation between insurance coverage and risk
occurrence. We show empirically that while there is no evidence of this positive correlation ...
M Hurd… - 1993 - nber.org
We study the influence of job characteristics on prospective retirement as measured by the
probability of working past age 62 or 65. The characteristics fall into three broad classes:
physical and mental requirements, job flexibility including employer accomodation to older ...
DM Cutler, A Finkelstein… - 2008 - nber.org
Standard theories of insurance, dating from Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976), stress the role of
adverse selection in explaining the decision to purchase insurance. In these models, higher
risk people buy full or near-full insurance, while lower risk people buy less complete ...
K McGarry - Journal of Human Resources, 1996 - JSTOR
The same low participation rates which plague many welfare programs have been observed
among the elderly eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI). A number of hypotheses
have been offered to explain the low enrollment, but none has attracted universal ...
A Light… - 2003 - nber.org
Economists have invested a great deal of effort in trying to understand the motivation for
family transfers, yet recent empirical work testing the seemingly appealing models of
altruism and exchange has led to decidedly mixed results. A major stumbling block has ...
KM McGarry - 1998 - nber.org
... Page 2. 5 Caring for the Elderly: The Role of Adult Children Kathleen McGarry 5.1 Introduction ...
Kathleen McGarry is assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles,
and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ...
K McGarry - 2000 - nber.org
Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might
suggest that these transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the
children, the fundamental prediction of the altruistic model has been decisively rejected in ...
E Rovira, K McGarry… - Human Factors: The …, 2007 - hfs.sagepub.com
Objective: Effects of four types of automation support and two levels of automation reliability
were examined. The objective was to examine the differential impact of information and
decision automation and to investigate the costs of automation unreliability. Background: ...
A Finkelstein, K McGarry… - 2005 - nber.org
We examine whether unregulated, private insurance markets efficiently provide insurance
against reclassification risk (the risk of becoming a bad risk and facing higher premiums). To
do so, we examine the ex-post risk type of individuals who drop their long-term care ...
K McGarry - Journal of Public Economics, 2001 - Elsevier
For altruistic parents desiring to bequeath their wealth to their children, estate taxes can be
costly in utility terms. The most straightforward way to reduce the tax burden is through inter
vivos transfers. Taking full advantage of potential tax-free giving often requires that ...
K McGarry… - 1998 - nber.org
The share of elderly widows living alone rose from 18 percent in 1940 to 62 percent in 1990,
while the share living with adult children declined from 59 percent to 20 percent. This study
analyzes the causes of this change and finds that income growth, in particular increased ...
K McGarry, RF Schoeni - The Journals …, 2005 - psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals. …
Objectives. Elderly widows are three times as likely to live in poverty as older married
people. This study investigates the gap in poverty, income, and wealth between these
groups. Focus is placed on the role played by out-of-pocket medical expenditures spent ...
KM McGarry… - 1998 - nber.org
... Page 2. 11 Pensions and the Distribution of Wealth Kathleen McGarry and Andrew Davenport ...
Kathleen McGarry is assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles,
and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ...
KM McGarry - 2002 - nber.org
... Page 2. •2 Guaranteed Income SSI and the Well-Being of the Elderly Poor Kathleen McGarry Social
Security has done much to improve the well-being of the elderly, particularly the well-being of the
poorest among the old. ... 50 Kathleen McGarry Page 4. come source. ...
E Rovira, K McGarry… - Proceedings of the Human …, 2002 - pro.sagepub.com
Abstract The effectiveness of automated decision aids used by human operators in
command and control systems may depend not only on automation reliability, but also on
the type (stage) and level the automated support provides. Automation can be applied to ...
SM Bianchi, VJ Hotz, KM McGarry… - 2006 - escholarship.org
... Series Intergenerational Ties: Alternative Theories, Empirical Findings and Trends,
and Remaining Challenges Suzanne M. Bianchi V. Joseph Hotz Kathleen McGarry
and Judith A. Seltzer CCPR-024-06 December 2006 Page 3. ...
K McGarry… - 1994 - nber.org
Recent work by a number of economists has opened a debate about the role played by
intergenerational transfers. Using the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), we are
better able to address the issues involved. Contrary to the current literature on bequests, ...
K McGarry… - Soc. Sec. Bull., 2005 - HeinOnline
There have been tremendous improvements in the economic status of the elderly during the
past 50 years. Today, the old-age poverty rate is less than onethird of what it was in the
middle of the 20th century. Yet despite these declines, poverty rates among selected ...
D Joulfaian… - National Tax Journal, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The estate tax has received a great deal of attention from policy makers and the
public in recent years. Yet we know little about its effect on the transfer of wealth. In this
paper we explore the effect of the tax on inter vivos giving. In particular, we look at the ...
SJ Haider… - 2005 - nber.org
Motivated in part by the dramatic changes in the United States economy and public
assistance policies, many researchers have examined the changes in the resources of the
low-income population over the last two decades, with particular attention paid to income ...
K McGarry - National Tax Journal, 2002 - elibrary.ru
Аннотация The market for health care faces a number of obstacles that hinder its efficient
operation. Factors such as moral hazard, adverse selection, and asymmetric information
affect the availability and price of care. There are also important externalities associated ...
K McGarry - 2000 - nber.org
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The estates of individuals who die with wealth over specified levels
are taxed at high marginal rates. In 1999 the marginal tax rates ranged from 37 percent on
estates of $650,000 to 55 percent on estates of over $3 million. Because children are the ...
[CITATION] Prospective retirement: Effects of job characteristics, pensions, and health insurance
MD Hurd… - Unpublished manuscript. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1999
K McGarry - Journal of Human Resources, 1995 - JSTOR
Estimates of the poverty rate and of the probability of entering or exiting poverty are biased
when income is observed with error. I estimate a variance components model of income
which contains a white noise error term and then treat this component as an ...
S Marshall, KM McGarry… - 2010 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE RISK OF OUT-OF-POCKET HEALTH CARE
EXPENDITURE AT END OF LIFE Samuel Marshall Kathleen M. McGarry Jonathan S. Skinner
Working Paper 16170 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16170 ...
[CITATION] Does caregiving affect work? Evidence based on prior labor force experience
K McGarry - Health Care Issues in the United …, 2003 - Chicago: University of Chicago …
K McGarry - 1995 - nber.org
The same low participation rates which plague many welfare programs have been observed
among the elderly eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI). A number of hypotheses
have been offered to explain the low enrollment, but none has attracted universal ...
J Briody… - Young Children, 2005 - pakeys.org
Creating a social story requires four elements described by Gray (1994). Specific sentence
structures each provide an element to the story and include descriptive, perspective,
affirmative, and directive text. Descriptive statements relate to the most important aspect of ...
[CITATION] qEvaluation of the Subjective Probabilities of Survival in the Health and Retirement Study, rJournal of Human Resources, 30
M Hurd… - S268& S, 1995
[CITATION] The Predictive Validity of the Subjective Probabilities of Survival in the Health and Retirement Survey
M Hurd… - Economics Department, SUNY Stony Brook, March, 1996
K McGarry, E Rovira… - Proceedings of the Human …, 2003 - pro.sagepub.com
Abstract Automation that is meant to assist the operator by reducing stress and workload
may actually increase both. Automation can be imperfect, and as a result may add to
uncertainty and degrade performance when it fails. In a complex and dynamic task ...
[CITATION] Evaluation of Subjective Probability Distributions
M Hurd… - Department of Economics, State University of New York …, 1993
[CITATION] 'Inheritances and Bequests
K McGarry - forthcoming in The Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2006
A Finkelstein… - Unpublished Manuscript, 2003 - emlab.berkeley.edu
4.2 Results The estimating equation was shown in equation (3). We estimate a linear
probability model of whether the individual went into a nursing home in the five years
between 1995 and 2000 on his 1995 self-reported beliefs of this probability (B) and ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming." The Predictive Validity of the Subjective Probabilities of Survival."
MD Hurd… - The Economic Journal
[CITATION] Out of Pocket Medical Expenditures and Retirement Security in the United States
S Marshall, K McGarry… - NBER Working Paper, 2010
K McGarry, E Rovira… - Proceedings of the Human …, 2005 - pro.sagepub.com
Abstract Automation that is meant to aid the human operator may actually be detrimental to
performance, particularly if faulty decision recommendations are provided (decision
automation), as opposed to prioritized or integrated information advisories that are ...
K McGarry… - Unpublished paper, University of …, 2001 - fordschool.umich.edu
Abstract: Elderly widows are three times as likely to live in poverty as older married people.
This study investigates this gap, as well as the gap in wealth and income more generally,
using national panel data from the 1990s in the United States. It is found that 44 percent of ...
[CITATION] Inter vivos transfers or bequests
K McGarry - Estate Taxes and the Timing of, 2000
KM McGarry - 2002 - en.scientificcommons.org
KM McGarry - 2006 - nber.org
... Labor Force Experience Kathleen McGarry 9.1 Introduction ... Not only would there be the obvi-
ous decline in earnings and thus an expected decline in retirement savings, Kathleen McGarry
is a professor of economics at the University of California, Los Ange- ...
S Bianchi, VJ Evans, VJ Hotz, KM McGarry… - 2007 - escholarship.org
... Suzanne Bianchi University of Maryland V. Jeffery Evans National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development V. Joseph Hotz UCLA and NBER Kathleen McGarry UCLA
and NBER Judith A. Seltzer UCLA Latest Draft: June 19, 2007 ...
[CITATION] December 1993.“The Relationship between Job Characteristics and Retirement.”
M Hurd… - NBER Working Paper No
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Inheritances and Bequests.”
K McGarry - The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
[CITATION] Pensions and the distribution of wealth: Differences by race and sex
K McGarry… - Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC, 1996
K McGarry… - NBER Working Paper NB07- …, 2008 - retirementincomejournal.com
With spending projected to increase from 4 percent of GDP to 12 percent in 2050 (CBO,
2007), Medicare and Medicaid are increasingly posing a threat to the fiscal solvency of the
US federal government. Less well understood is the implication of these trends for out-of- ...
[CITATION] Living Arrangements among Elderly Women using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
JV Hotz, K McGarry… - 2008 - mimeo
[CITATION] mTransfer Behavior in the Health and Retirement Study: Mea% surement and the Redistribution of Resources within the Family. nJournal of Human …
K McGarry… - S184% S
[CITATION] Private Information and Its Effect on Market Equilibrium: New Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance 3, 30 (Nat'l Bureau of Econ. Research, Working …
A Finkelstein…
[CITATION] forthcoming.“Multiple Dimensions of Private Information: Evidence from the Long-Term Care Insurance Market.”
A Finkelstein… - American Economic Review
[CITATION] Transfer Behaviour: Measurement and the Redistribution of Resources Within the Family
K McGarry, RF Schoeni… - 1994 - NBER
K McGarry… - 11th Annual Retirement Research Conference, …, 2009 - nber.org
This research was supported by a grant from the US Social Security Administration (SSA) as
part of the Retirement Research Consortium (RRC). The findings and conclusions
expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of SSA, any ...
K McGarry - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics …, 2008 - pro.sagepub.com
Abstract This paper describes the results of a Human-in-the-Loop simulation, conducted at
MITRE/CAASD's Integrated Air Traffic Management Laboratory for the FAA, evaluating the
effectiveness of integrated ground-based warning systems for improved runway safety. ...
VJ Hotz, K McGarry… - 2010 - econ.duke.edu
Abstract Early in the last century, it was commonplace for elderly women to live with their
adult children. Over time the prevalence of this type of living arrangement declined as
incomes increased. However, the recent recession has brought with it numerous accounts ...
SJ Haider… - 2006 - aeaweb.org
1 Gale and Scholz (1994) estimate the annual flows of inter vivos transfers at $2489 billion,
college transfers at $1,141 billion, and bequests as $3,708 billion.(In 2006 dollars, these
amounts are $4,581 billion, $2,100 billion, and $6,824 billion.) Other work has attempted ...
B Hilburn, R Parasuraman, P Jha… - 2006 - chpr.nl
1. Background The predicted near-term growth in civil air traffic holds significant implications
for the design of air traffic management (ATM) systems worldwide. The International Civil
Aviation Organization (ICAO), for example, projects a worldwide doubling of air traffic over ...
[CITATION] Measurement error, poverty transitions and program participation: a study of poverty among the elderly
K McGarry - 1992 - State University of New York at …
RM Blank, JE Ligthart, J Cawley, Y Rubinstein… - Cambridge Univ Press
This section contains an index of current working papers by author-supplied keyword. The keyword
is followed by the name of the primary author. Long keywords have been truncated. A complete
bibliographic listing can be found by consulting the corresponding entry for the primary ...
K McGarry - econ.ucla.edu
Abstract Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While
intuition might suggest that these transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-
being of the children, the fundamental prediction of the altruistic model has been ...
MD Hurd… - The Economic Journal, 2002 - res.org.uk
Although expectations, or more precisely subjective probability distributions, play a
prominent role in models of decision making under uncertainty, we have had very little data
on them. Based on panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, we study the ...
K McGarry… - Proceedings of the Human Factors and …, 2011 - pro.sagepub.com
Abstract Two Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) simulations were conducted to investigate the
concurrent use of Runway Entrance Lights (RELs) and Surface Movement Guidance Control
System (SMGCS) stop bars. The first study investigated use by 11 pilots who received ...
[CITATION] Re-examining the test for asymmetric information in insurance markets: New evidence from long-term care insurance
A Finkelstein… - 2003
KA McGarry - 2007 - gradworks.umi.com
UMI. ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses The world's most comprehensive collection of
dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest. Effects of false alarms and misses on reliance,
compliance, and attention when using an automated warning system. ...
KM Long… - Proceedings of the Human Factors and …, 2009 - pro.sagepub.com
Page 1. Why are those Lights Flashing? Direct-to-Pilot Warnings for Preventing
Runway Incursions Kevin M. Long Kathleen A. McGarry MITRE/CAASD This paper
describes the results of a Human-in-the-Loop simulation that ...
PM Moertl, G Niehus, K McGarry… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - pro.sagepub.com
Abstract The potential of dynamic message signs to update pilots' expectations about airport
surface characteristics was investigated in a simulation experiment. Signs were placed at
simulated high-hazard airport intersections to inform pilots about uncommon surface ...
[CITATION] The Economic Well-being of Older Californians
K McGarry, B Kaskie, R Brode… - 2001 - California Policy Research Center
P Carneiro,
JJ Heckman, J Angrist, V Lavy… - The Economic …, 2002 - res.org.uk
This paper examines the family income—college enrolment relationship and the evidence
on credit constraints in post–secondary schooling. We distinguish short run liquidity
constraints from the long term factors that promote cognitive and noncognitive ability. Long ...
K McGarry… - Proceedings of the Human Factors and …, 2007 - pro.sagepub.com
Abstract This paper describes a human-in-the-loop simulation evaluating the effectiveness
of integrated ground-based warning systems for improved runway safety. The evaluated
warning systems contained technologies to enhance pilot awareness, as well as warn ...
M McClellan, D McFadden, K McGarry… - Frontiers in the …, 1998 - books.google.com
Contributors Alan J. Auerbach Department of Economics 549 Evans Hall University of
California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 Harish Chand Department of Economics 549 Evans
Hall# 3880 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 David M. Cutler NBER ...
S Bianchi, K McGarry… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Perhaps the largest problem confronting our aging population is the rising cost of
health care, particularly the costs borne by Medicare and Medicaid. A chief component of
this expense is long-term care. Much of this care for an unmarried (mostly widowed) ...
[CITATION] GUARANTEED INCOME: SSI AND TIlE WELL-BEING OF TIlE ELDERLY POOR
K McGarry - 2000
SM Bianchi, VJ Hotz, K McGarry… - Intergenerational …, 2008 - books.google.com
Relationships between parents and children are the province of diverse academic
disciplines, including the social sciences, humanities, and biological sciences. One need
only compare the plot in Shakespeare's King Lear with the exchange model offered by ...
K McGarry… - Estudios de la Seguridad Social, 2006 - dialnet.unirioja.es
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