Alan L. Gustman

Retirement in a Family Context

A Structural Model for Husbands and Wives

A structural econometric model of retirement of married couples is specified and estimated with recent panel data from the NLS for Mature Women. A coi...

Pensions in the Health and Retirement Study

This book presents a careful analysis of pension data collected by the Health and Retirement Study, a unique survey of people over the age of fifty co...

Income and Wealth of Older American Households

Modeling Issues for Public Policy Analysis

This paper evaluates the extent to which current knowledge of retirement, savings, pension and related behavior is sufficient for determining the effe...

Employer Provided Health Insurance and Retirement Behavior

This paper analyzes the effects on retirement of employer provided health benefits to workers and retirees. Retiree health benefits delay retirement u...

Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men

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