Cognitive Ability and Retiree Health Care Expenditure
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Cognitive Ability and Retiree Health Care Expenditure
Prior research indicates that retirees with less cognitive ability are at greater financial risk because they have lower incomes yet higher medical expenditures. Linking HRS data to administrative records, we evaluate two hypotheses about why this group spends more on health: (1) they are in worse health; (2) they receive more expensive or less effective care for the same conditions. We find th...
متن کاملRetiree Health Care Benefits: Data Collection Issues
The aging workforce and improvements in health care services have led to increased interest in the availability of health care benefits to retirees; gathering and tabulating data on this topic can be a challenge. The aging of the baby boom generation and their likely expanded use of health care services are well documented.1 Equally well reported is the debate over the obligation of employers t...
متن کاملSchooling, cognitive ability and health.
A large literature documents a strong correlation between health and educational outcomes. In this paper we investigate the role of cognitive ability in the health-education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that one standard deviation increase in cognitive ability is associated with roughly the same increase in health as two years of schooling and that cognitive ability accounts for roughly one ...
متن کاملRetiree health care benefits: new rules, new strategies.
Two recent court decisions in a retiree health care benefits age discrimination case are likely to bring changes to employer-sponsored retiree health care. After reviewing the cases and how the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has responded to them, this article discusses employer implications. Although the court decisions add complexity to retiree health plan design, they also provide e...
متن کاملPopulation Ageing and Health Care Expenditure
The OECD’s most recent projections of the impact of population ageing on public expenditures suggest that health and long term care will account for about half of the increase in age-related social expenditures between 2000 and 2050. Projections of health care spending are subject, however, to more uncertainties than projections of pension expenditure. Making reliable forecasts of the impact of...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1710118