As Medicare cost increase, policymakers are searching for equitable ways to secure the program's financial base. Proposals that would require higher-income Medicare beneficiaries to pay a higher proportion of the program's costs are designed to increase beneficiaries' contribution without placing an unacceptable financial burden on those least able to afford it. Designing and implementing suc...

BACKGROUND telomere length has been used to represent biological ageing and is found to be associated with various physiological, psychological and social factors. OBJECTIVE to explore the effects of income and marriage on leucocyte telomere length in a representative sample of older adults. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS cross-sectional analysis among 298 adults, aged 65-74, randomly selected from th...

Abstract Low-income students’ preferences for higher education might depend on the uncertainty of financial aid. Using a time discontinuity design, this paper exploits unanticipated cancellation nationwide Colombian merit and need-based scholarship, called Ser Pilo Paga , to study its consequences education. Preferences are measured using discrete choice experiment administrated 949 low-income ...

Given the robust finding that people in higher income groups tend to experience better physical health, there is interest in identifying mechanisms underlying this gradient. Using a nationwide sample of 719 twin pairs from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, we investigated the possibility that gene-environment interaction underlies the income-health gradient. We ob...

this study empirically examines whether managers manipulate reported income through the timing of sales of long-lived assets and investments. several empirical implications of the income-smoothing and debt-equity hypothesis in the context of asset sales were tested. the findings are consistent with the timing of asset sales by managers so that the recognized accounting income from these sales s...