Why do estimates of the intergenerational persistence in earnings vary so much for the United States? Recent research suggests that lifecycle bias may be a major factor [Grawe, N., Lifecycle bias in estimates of intergenerational earnings persistence. Labour Economics 2006, 13:551-570; Haider, S.,...

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...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 expanded eligibility for public health insurance, Medicaid, to nearly all adults ages 18-64 with household incomes below 138% of the federal poverty line and living in states that opted to participate in the Medicaid expansion. The ACA Medicaid expansion can...

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...

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...