Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S. (2009)
Kapteyn, Arie, Van Soest, Arthur, Smith, James P.
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as “do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or...
Reconstructing Childhood Health Histories (2009)
Demography - Volume 46, Number 2, May 2009
LONDON WCIE 6BT Wealth Portfolios in the UK and the US (2009)
James Banks, Richard Blundell, James P Smith, James Banks, Richard Blundell, James P. Smith
Banks acknowledges the financial support of the Leverhulme Trust through the research program ‘The Changing Distribution of consumption, economic resources and the welfare of households’....
Abstract — There has recently been renewed interest among various research communities in understanding the structure of social and infrastructure networks. Motivated by this line of research, we...
Economic shocks, wealth and welfare: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (2007)
Elizabeth Frankenberg, James P. Smith, Duncan Thomas
Indonesia is in the midst of a major financial, economic, and political crisis. In late 1997 credit markets tightened and the Indonesian rupiah began to weaken. In early 1998 the currency collapsed,...
Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence (2006)
Thomas, Duncan, Frankenberg, Elizabeth, Friedman, Jed, Habicht, Jean-Pierre, Hakimi, Mohammed, Ingwersen, Nicholas, ...
Iron deficiency is widespread throughout the developing world. We provide new evidence on the effect of iron deficiency on economic and social prosperity of older adults drawing on data from a random...
Amiali, Malek, Ngadi, Michael, Smith, James P., Raghavan, Vijaya
This study sought to evaluate the effect of PEF parameters such as electric field intensity and number of pulses on the inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Enteritidis suspended...
Amiali, Malek, Ngadi, Michael, Smith, James P., Raghavan, Vijaya
This study sought to evaluate the effect of PEF parameters such as electric field intensity and number of pulses on the inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Enteritidis suspended...
Amiali, Malek, Ngadi, Michael, Smith, James P., Raghavan, Vijaya
This study sought to evaluate the effect of PEF parameters such as electric field intensity and number of pulses on the inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Enteritidis suspended...
Thomas, Duncan, Frankenberg, Elizabeth, Friedman, Jed, Habicht, Jean-Pierre, Jones, Nathan, McKelvey, Christopher, ...
International Comparisons of Work Disability (2004)
Banks, James, Kapteyn, Arie, Smith, James P, Van Soest, Arthur
Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are...
Economic Shocks, Wealth and Welfare (2003)
Frankenberg, Elizabeth, Smith, James P., Thomas, Duncan
The immediate effects of the Asian crisis on the well-being of Indonesians are examined using the Indonesia Family Life Survey, an on-going longitudinal household survey. There is tremendous...
Esther Dußo, Sergi Jiménez, Adriana Kugler, Albert Marcet, James P. Smith, ...
The response of household borrowing to changes in the interest rate is a crucial parameter to understand whether or not monetary policy can promote household investment in housing, and what are the...
Remembrances of Things Past: Test-Retest Reliability of Retrospective Migration Histories (2002)
Smith, James P., Thomas, Duncan
Matched retrospective life history data collected from the same individuals in two waves of the Malaysian Family Life Survey provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the quality of long term recall...
Lost but not Forgotten: Attrition and Follow-up in the Indonesia Family Life Survey (2001)
Thomas, Duncan, Frankenberg, Elizabeth, Smith, James P.
Data from three waves of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) are used to examine follow-up and attrition in the context of a large scale panel survey conducted in a low income setting....
Law and Leadership Summit (1995)
Helms, Cathy Harris, Goldsmith, Robert D., Flournoy, Matthew C., Franklin, James B., Inglesby, Sam P., Smith, James P., ...
The Law and Leadership Summit focused on service to Georgia's small to mid-sized communities.
Measuring Health and Economic Status of Older Adults in Developing Countries (1994)
Aging and health care are the emerging policy issues in the Third World. However, we currently do not have the data to address these issues because economic status and health have not been integrated...
ASSETS, SAVINGS AND LABOR SUPPLY (1977)
This paper examines the role of assets in labor supply functions. Although assets have frequently been used to measure the response of hours worked to nonwage-related income, it is generally...
Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies
New medical technologies hold tremendous promise for improving population health, but they also raise concerns about exacerbating already large differences in health by socioeconomic status (SES). If...
The household production model provides a useful theoretical framework in which one may analyze family labor supply issues. In this model, the family is viewed as if it were a small firm producing...
Immigrants and the Labor Market
This article examines skill gaps between immigrants and native-born Americans and generational progress achieved by different immigrant ethnic groups. Evidence of a widening skill gap is not strong....
Housing Price Volatility and Downsizing in Later Life
James Banks, Richard Blundell, Zoë Oldfield, James P. Smith
In this paper, we modeled several types of housing transitions of the elderly in two countries -- Britain and the United States. One important form of these transitions involves downsizing of housing...
Lost But Not Forgotten: Attrition and Follow-up in the Indonesian Family Life Survey.
Duncan Thomas, Elizabeth Frankenberg, James P. Smith
Data from three waves of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) are used to examine attrition in the context of a large scale panel survey conducted in a low income setting.
Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest
In contrast to the believed similarity in their health outcomes, workers in different Western countries report very different rates of work disability. Using new data from the United States and the...
Dynamics of work disability and pain
Kapteyn, Arie, Smith, James P., Van Soest, Arthur
This paper investigates the role of pain dynamics in subsequently affecting dynamics in self-reported work disability and the dynamics of employment patterns of older workers in the US. Not only is...
Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales
Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon, Arie Kapteyn, Arthur Van Soest, James P Smith
Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by...
Are Americans Really Less Happy With Their Incomes?
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest
Recent economic research on international comparisons of subjective well-being suffers from several important biases due to the potential incomparability of response scales within and across...
Financial Wealth Inequality in the United States and Great Britain
James Banks, Richard Blundell, James P. Smith
In this paper the authors describe the household wealth distribution in the U.S. and the U.K., and compare both wealth inequality and the form in which wealth is held. Unconditionally, there are...
Expected Bequests and Their Distribution
Based on a sample of actual bequests that is population-representative and on the subjective probability of bequests, the authors estimate the distribution of bequests that the older population will...
The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirements and Social Security Claiming
Michael Hurd, James P. Smith, Julie M. Zissimopoulos
According to the life-cycle model, mortality risk will influence both retirement and the desire to annuitize wealth. The authors estimate the effect of subjective survival probabilities on retirement...
Wages, employment and economic shocks: Evidence from Indonesia
Duncan Thomas, James P. Smith, Kathleen Beegle, Graciela Teruel, Elizabeth Frankenberg
After over a quarter century of sustained economic growth, Indonesia was struck by a large and unanticipated crisis at the end of the 20th Century. Real GDP declined by about 12% in 1998. Using 13...
The Changing Skills of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants
Guillermina Jasso, Mark R. Rosenzweig, James P. Smith
The objective of this paper is to describe and understand the determinants of changes in the number and quality of new legal immigrants to the United States over the last 25 years. Our main interest...
Anticipated and Actual Bequests
Michael D. Hurd, James P. Smith
This paper uses data on anticipated bequests from two waves of the Health and Retirement Study and the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old (AHEAD), and on actual bequests from AHEAD. Actual...
Wealth Portfolios in the UK and the US
James Banks, Richard Blundell, James P. Smith
In this paper, we attempt to explain differences between the US and UK household wealth distributions, with an emphasis on the quite different porfolios held in stock and housing equities in the two...
The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirement and Social Security Claiming
Michael D. Hurd, James P. Smith, Julie M. Zissimopoulos
According to the life-cycle model, mortality risk will influence both retirement and the desire to annuitize wealth. We estimate the effect of subjective survival probabilities on retirement and on...
Expected Bequests and Their Distribution
Based on a sample of actual bequests that is population-representative and on the subjective probability of bequests, we estimate the distribution of bequests that the older population will make. We...
Consequences and Predictors of New Health Events
Smith uses the HRS and AHEAD panels to examine the consequences of new health on a series of SES related outcomes- out-of-pocket labor supply, labor force activity, household income and wealth. For...
James Banks, Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest
This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the US, the UK and The Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in...
The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic
James Banks, Michael Marmot, Zoe Oldfield, James P. Smith
Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men...
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest, James Banks
Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement. We use the American PSID...
Trends and Projections in Income Replacement during Retirement
This article calculates retirement incomereplacement rates for all labor market cohorts across the last 25 years and describes the changing contributions made by private pensions, social security,...
The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirement and Social Security Claiming
Michael D. Hurd, James P. Smith, Julie M. Zissimopoulos
This research examines the relationship between mortality risk and retirement, and mortality risk and the propensity to take early and reduced Social Security benefits. The main theory for...
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest
This paper analyzes the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. The...
The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health over the Life-Course
Using data from the PSID, across the life course SES impacts future health outcomes, although the primary influence is education and not an individual’s financial resources in whatever form they...
Kapteyn, Arie, Smith, James P., Van Soest, Arthur
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global...
Re-Constructing Childhood Health Histories
This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is...
Re-Constructing Childhood Health Histories
This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the Health and Retirement Survey and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Even though...
Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey
McArdle, John J., Smith, James P., Willis, Robert
Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous...
The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply....
Understanding Differences in Household Financial Wealth between the United States and Great Britain
James Banks, Richard Blundell, James P. Smith
In this paper, we describe the household wealth distribution in the United States and United Kingdom over the past two decades, and compare both wealth inequality and the form in which wealth is...
Economic Shocks, Wealth, and Welfare
Elizabeth Frankenberg, James P. Smith, Duncan Thomas
The immediate effects of the Asian crisis on the well-being of Indonesians are examined using the Indonesia Family Life Survey, an ongoing longitudinal household survey. There is tremendous diversity...
Enhancing the Quality of Data on Income: Recent Innovations from the HRS
Michael Hurd, F. Thomas Juster, James P. Smith
This paper evaluates two survey innovations introduced in the HRS that aimed to improve income measurement. The innovations are (1) the integration of questions for income and wealth and (2) matching...
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as “do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or...
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest
The authors analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. They...
Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey
John J. McArdle, James P. Smith, Robert Willis
Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous...
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie, Smith, James P., Van Soest, Arthur
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount...
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as “do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or...
The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
This paper examines impacts of childhood health on socioeconomic status (SES) outcomes observed during adulthood: levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual...
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as Òdo you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount...
Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur Van Soest
The authors analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. They...
From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland
Delaney, Liam, McGovern, Mark, Smith, James P.
We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our...