Julie Zissimopoulos

TL;DR: This paper found that delaying marriage increases hourly wages of women by nearly four percent for each year they delay, while marriage timing has no impact on the wages of men, and that women who delay marriage marry spouses with lower wages.

TL;DR: It is found that the HRS produces good quality and useful data on OOP spending, and various measures of OOP Spending are compared to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), two surveys that expend considerable resources on measuring both Oop spending and total medical expenditures.

TL;DR: The authors found that there is a perception of "under-saving" for retirement among many individuals and that people who perceive they have saved inadequately attribute this mainly to having insufficient income.

TL;DR: The authors analyze and discuss the extent, to which these measures are comparable, the methodological differences in the way information was collected for these measures, and the implications for secondary data analysis.