Pilot Awards

The annual Quartet Pilot Competition is jointly sponsored by The Pension Research Council and Boettner Center, the Leonard Davis Institute and Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, the Population Aging Research Center, and the Population Studies Center. The competition promotes high quality and innovative research in demography, economics, and related social and behavioral sciences. Awards are generally funded for one year in duration and are selected through competitive peer review. A list of funded projects appears below. To apply or to read the guidelines for the latest competition please visit the Quartet Pilot Project Competition page.

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Biological age and its value for behavioral and decision science

Principal Investigator(s): Gideon Nave

Award Dates: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Climate Risk, Air Pollution, and Childhood Inequalities in Developing Countries

Principal Investigator(s): Emily Hannum

Award Dates: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023
Effect of outdoor temperature and air pollution on the comparative safety of antihyperglycemic therapies

Principal Investigator(s): Charles Leonard

Award Dates: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Gender Disparities in STEM Majors and Occupations: The Role of Early Skill Profiles

Principal Investigator(s): Petra Todd

Award Dates: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Youth and Young Adult Caregivers

Principal Investigator(s): Katherine Miller

Award Dates: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Improving the Outcomes of Older Adult Surgical Patients with Prolonged Surgical Time: Evaluating Modifiable Hospital Nursing Resources

Principal Investigator(s): Maura Dougherty

Award Dates: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Life-Cycle Investment in Financial Sophistication and Wealth Inequality after Retirement

Principal Investigator(s): Min Kim

Award Dates: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Making Up for Failure: A Simple Nudge to Improve Goal Persistence

Principal Investigator(s): Marissa Sharif

Award Dates: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
The Causal Effects of Income Volatility and Income Risk

Principal Investigator(s): Heather Schofield

Award Dates: July 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023
Using hospital-free days to understand the impact of lung allocation policy changes on older lung transplant recipients

Principal Investigator(s): Catherine Auriemma

Award Dates: July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Alleviating Loneliness Among Female Migrant Workers in India

Principal Investigator(s): Heather Schofield

Award Dates: May 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
Gamification to Improve Physical Activity in Seniors at Risk for Alzheimer's

Principal Investigator(s): Ryan Greysen

Award Dates: July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
Historical Changes in Occupational Structure in the United States

Principal Investigator(s): Xi Song

Award Dates: July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
How Does Genetic Ancestry Testing Affect Perceptions of Race?

Principal Investigator(s): Wendy Roth

Award Dates: July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
Is Attention Produced Rationally?

Principal Investigator(s): Judd Kessler

Award Dates: July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
Reproductive Disability: The Link Between Infertility and Economic Well-Being for Women in Zambia

Principal Investigator(s): Corinne Low

Award Dates: July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
The Placeholder Effect: Using Break Days to Help Form Habits

Principal Investigator(s): Marissa Sharif

Award Dates: July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
Uneven Spillover Effects of Police Violence: Police Shootings and Disparities in Emotional Well-Being

Principal Investigator(s): Courtney Boen

Award Dates: July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
Avoiding States Worse Than Death: A Novel and Patient-centered Outcome for Studies of Older Persons and Those with Serious Illness

Principal Investigator(s): Catherine Louise Auriemma

Award Dates: July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
Comparative Cognitive Health Changes in Low-Income Settings

Principal Investigator(s): Iliana Kohler

Award Dates: July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022
Estimating the Causal Effects of Managed Care in Medicare

Principal Investigator(s): Atul Gupta, Amol Shamkant Navathe

Award Dates: July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
The Role of Preference Heterogeneity in Optimal Capital Taxation

Principal Investigator(s): Benjamin Lockwood

Award Dates: July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
Understanding Nursing Turnover: The Case of Home Health

Principal Investigator(s): Molly Candon

Award Dates: July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
Validating Minimally Invasive Measures of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction

Principal Investigator(s): Morgan Hoke

Award Dates: July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) in a Developing Country: Expanding the Sample to Give More Power for Collecting and Validating Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) and Examining Its Precursors and Correlates

Principal Investigator(s): Irma T. Elo, Jere R. Behrman

Award Dates: August 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
Study Partners: Who are the Research Partners of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Does it Matter?

Principal Investigator(s): Shana Stites

Award Dates: August 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021
Taxing the Poor Twice: Poverty, Bandwidth, and Utility from Consumption

Principal Investigator(s): Atheendar Venkataramani

Award Dates: July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
The Effect of Default Retirement Savings on Credit Scores

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell, Mingli Zhong

Award Dates: July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
The Persistent Feminization and Devaluation of Elder Care

Principal Investigator(s): Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Award Dates: August 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
The Spatial Distribution of Health Care Services Within Countries

Principal Investigator(s): Juan Pablo Atal

Award Dates: July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
Whole Community Climate Mapping

Principal Investigator(s): Daniel Aldana Cohen

Award Dates: July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
Evaluating A Hospital Intervention to Improve Care for Older Adults at the End of Life

Principal Investigator(s): Karen B. Lasater

Award Dates: July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019
Pregnancy Incidence and Prevention Among Zambian Female University Students

Principal Investigator(s): Corinne Low

Award Dates: July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019
Prize-Linked Savings Initiatives for Promoting Better Health and Economic Outcomes in Kenya

Principal Investigator(s): Harsha Thirumurthy

Award Dates: July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019
Social Networks, NCDs and Aging: Leveraging Social Dynamics for Efficient Health Interventions among Older Persons in Low-Income Countries

Principal Investigator(s): Iliana Kohler

Award Dates: July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019
Understanding Retirement Plan Default Behavior

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell

Award Dates: July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019
Biological Risk, Physical Functioning, and Psychosocial Stress among Older Age Hispanics

Principal Investigator(s): Courtney Boen

Award Dates: July 1, 2017 - March 30, 2018
Examination of population-based driver licensing and motor vehicle crash rates among older adults

Principal Investigator(s): Allison Elizabeth Curry

Award Dates: July 1, 2017 - March 30, 2018
Long-Term Care Financing using Home Equity Release

Principal Investigator(s): Hanming Fang

Award Dates: July 1, 2017 - March 30, 2018
Tax-Information Avoidance

Principal Investigator(s): Alexander Rees-Jones

Award Dates: July 1, 2017 - March 30, 2018
The Impact of Pain Reduction on Productivity and Cognitive Function in a Low-Income Population

Principal Investigator(s): Heather Schofield

Award Dates: July 1, 2017 - March 30, 2018
Towards an Accesible Healthcare Travel Chain for Elderly Populations Througha User-Centered Antropologic Approach

Principal Investigator(s): Megan Ryerson

Award Dates: July 1, 2017 - March 30, 2018
Personality, Schooling and Occupational Choice over the Life-Cycle

Principal Investigator(s): Petra Todd

Award Dates: July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017
The Contribution of Diabetes to Mortality in the US

Principal Investigator(s): Samuel Preston

Award Dates: July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017
The Effect of Nursing Work Environments on Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Outcomes

Principal Investigator(s): Matthew McHugh

Award Dates: July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017
Consumption Commitments and Moral Hazard: Theory and Evidence from Older Workers

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell

Award Dates: July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
Health Status and Consumption Growth

Principal Investigator(s): José-Victor Ríos-Rull

Award Dates: July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
Mental Health Migration and Mortality among Mature Adults in Malawi

Principal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler

Award Dates: September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2016
Silver Spoons, Falling Apples, Grandparental Effects and from Rags to Riches to Rags

Principal Investigator(s): Hyunjoon Park, Jere R. Behrman

Award Dates: July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of IVF

Principal Investigator(s): Corrine S. Low

Award Dates: July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
Transnational aging: The link between migration and aging in Mexico

Principal Investigator(s): Chenoa Flippen

Award Dates: July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016
Conference Sessions on Aging and Retirement

Principal Investigator(s): Hyunjoon Park

Award Dates: July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015
Early Life to MAture Adulthood: Guatemalan INCAP Health and Socioeconomic Data

Principal Investigator(s): Jere R. Behrman

Award Dates: September 15, 2014 - June 30, 2015
Impact of Nurses’ Retirement Benefits on Job Satisfaction and Labor Force Participation

Principal Investigator(s): Linda H. Aiken, Herbert L. Smith

Award Dates: September 15, 2014 - June 30, 2015
Pass-Through in a Highly Regulated Supply Chain- The Who, What, and Where of the US Drug Market

Principal Investigator(s): Starc, Amanda

Award Dates: July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2016
Transnational elder care and the financial security of low income Mexican immigrants in the USA: A case study of Philadelphia, PA

Principal Investigator(s): Chenoa Flippen

Award Dates: September 15, 2014 - June 30, 2015
American's Willingness to Voluntarily Delay Retirement

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell

Award Dates: July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014
Efficiency Gains From Medicaid Privatization: Identifying the Magnitude and Incidence

Principal Investigator(s): Mark G. Duggan

Award Dates: July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014
Fertility and the Career Paths of Young Women in the U.S.

Principal Investigator(s): Kenneth I. Wolpin

Award Dates: July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014
Health and Well-being of African Migrants in the US and in their Country of Origin

Principal Investigator(s): Irma T. Elo

Award Dates: July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014
Mental Health, Cognition, and Aging in a Poor High-Risk Disease Environment

Principal Investigator(s): Iliana Kohler, Hans-Peter Kohler

Award Dates: January 1, 2013 - June 30, 2013
Optimal Life Cycle Portfolio Choice with Changing Family Status and the Demand for Life-Contingent Assets

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell

Award Dates: July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014
Pilot Study of Adult and Old-Age Mortality Among Migrants and Their Descendants in France

Principal Investigator(s): Michel Guillot

Award Dates: January 1, 2013 - June 30, 2013
The Impact of Prison Privatization on Prisoner Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis

Principal Investigator(s): David S. Abrams

Award Dates: July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014
Biomarkers of Aging in Ethnically Diverse Africans: An Integrative Genomics

Principal Investigator(s): Sarah Tishkoff

Award Dates: July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
Friendship Networks and Teen Smoking: Theory and Evidence

Principal Investigator(s): Petra Todd

Award Dates: July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
Metabolic Profiles of Female Reproductive Aging: A Comparative Study

Principal Investigator(s): Claudia R. Valeggia

Award Dates: July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
Sex Differences in the Life-History and Demography of Socially Monogamous Primates

Principal Investigator(s): Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

Award Dates: July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
The Health of Black Immigrants in the United States and Comparisons with Countries of Origin

Principal Investigator(s): Irma T. Elo

Award Dates: July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
Understanding Health Insurance and Policy Using the Massachusetts Health Reform

Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Thompson Kolstad

Award Dates: July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
Understanding the Emerging Micropensions Market in India

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell, Anita Mukherjee

Award Dates: July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013
Ambiguity Attitudes and Retirement Preparedness

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell, Kim Peijnenberg

Award Dates: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Annuity Demand

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia S. Mitchell, Daniel Sacks

Award Dates: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Health and Heath Care accumulation

Principal Investigator(s): Flavio Cunha

Award Dates: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Hispanic Fertility: The Unique Effect of Immigrant Women

Principal Investigator(s): Emilio Parrado

Award Dates: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Income Volatility and Risk Aversion

Principal Investigator(s): Shane Tyler Jensen, Stephen H. Shore

Award Dates: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Insurance Against Common Agricultural Shocks

Principal Investigator(s): Jeremy Tobacman, Anita Mukherjee

Award Dates: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Neural Substrates of Anticipatory Time Perception and Time Discounting

Principal Investigator(s): Joseph Kable, Gal Zauberman

Award Dates: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Relative Social Position and U.S. Internal Migration: Patterns by Race and Ethnicity

Principal Investigator(s): Chenoa Flippen

Award Dates: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
The Effects of Child-Bearing Policies in Remarriages: Evidence from China

Principal Investigator(s): Hanming Fang

Award Dates: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
The Impact of Pain Reduction on Productivity and Cognitive Function in a Low-Income Population

Principal Investigator(s): Heather Schofield

Award Dates: July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018
Costly Portfolio Adjustment and Delegated Money Management

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell, Kim, Hugh Hoikwang

Award Dates: July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011
Do parents in developing countries benefit from their children's education at old age?

Principal Investigator(s): Irma Elo, Iliana Kohler

Award Dates: July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011
Sources of Aging in US States

Principal Investigator(s): Samuel Preston

Award Dates: July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011
The Centrality of Schooling in Gene x Environment Interactions for Health

Principal Investigator(s): Jason Schnittker

Award Dates: July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011
The Effect of Defined Contribution Social Security on Savings and Labor Supply: Evidence from Discontinuous Social Security Benefits in Sweden

Principal Investigator(s): Alexander M. Gelber

Award Dates: July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011
Chile 2008 Pension Reform: Preparation for New Analysis

Principal Investigator(s): Petra Todd

Award Dates: July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010
Food Insecurity, Nutritional Deprivation, and Child Functioning in Rural China

Principal Investigator(s): Emily Hannum

Award Dates: July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010
Hormonal and cultural correlates of physical discomforts during the menopausal transition

Principal Investigator(s): Claudia Valeggia

Award Dates: July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011
Intergenerational Inequality and Educational Consequences of Health Disparity

Principal Investigator(s): Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román

Award Dates: July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010
Longevity Risk and Annuities in Singapore

Principal Investigator(s): Joelle Fong, Olivia Mitchell

Award Dates: July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010
Why Mothers Eat Burnt Toast: Neuroeconomics of Intergenerational Sacrifice

Principal Investigator(s): Joseph Kable, Li-Wei Chao

Award Dates: July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011
Aging in a Time of AIDS: The Impact of the Epidemic on Elderly in Rural Malawi

Principal Investigator(s): Susan C. Watkins

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
An assessment of contact tracing as a strategy of HIV control in sub-Saharan Africa

Principal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler, Stéphane Helleringer

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Anti-Depressants, Unemployment and Disability

Principal Investigator(s): Betsey Stevenson

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Biomarkers in Malawi: Inflammation and CRP

Principal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler, Beth Soldo

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Borrowing from Tomorrow: 401(k) Loans and Repayment Behavior

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell, Timothy Jun Lu

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Cohabitation, Fertility, and Child Development

Principal Investigator(s): Flavio Cunha

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Development of Methods for Applying Demographic Synthesis to Large Genome Scans

Principal Investigator(s): Douglas C. Ewbank

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Early life conditions and familial correlations in cause-specific mortality

Principal Investigator(s): Irma T. Elo

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
New Evidence on Annuity Choices in Chile: A Dynamic Programming Approach

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell, Jose Luis Ruiz

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Personal Attributes and the Financial Well-Being of Older Adults: The Effects of Control Beliefs

Principal Investigator(s): Ram Cnaan, Steven Marcus

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing and Risky Assets

Principal Investigator(s): Motohiro Yogo

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
Retirement Savings and Unemployment Insurance

Principal Investigator(s): Petra Todd

Award Dates: July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009
A population-based study of the transmission and diversification of HIV-1 using molecular genetic and complete sexual network data

Principal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler, Stéphane Helleringer

Award Dates: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
Age Variation in the Relationship between Health Literacy and Self-Rated Health

Principal Investigator(s): Hyunjoon Park

Award Dates: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
An Empirical Study on Behavioral Responses to AIDS

Principal Investigator(s): Aureo DePaula

Award Dates: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
Is Physical Activity a Viable Intervention to Lower the Risk of Dementia

Principal Investigator(s): Kathryn Jedrziewski

Award Dates: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
Life Cycle Funds and 401(k) Portfolio Selection

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell

Award Dates: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
The Effects of Nutrition and Disease on Child Growth and Adult Health

Principal Investigator(s): Samuel H. Preston, Rachel Margolis

Award Dates: July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
Building and Maintaining Bibliographic Database for AIDS Research in Malawi

Principal Investigator(s): Susan C. Watkins

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Contribution Patterns under the Chilean Retirement Survey

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Decision-making in the Chilean Pension Market

Principal Investigator(s): Petra Todd

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Demographic Changes in Toba Villages in Transition

Principal Investigator(s): Claudia Valeggia

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Disseminating and Extending the Gansu Survey of Children and Families

Principal Investigator(s): Emily Hannum

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Does Poor Health Induce Myopia? An Investigation of Mortality, Morbidity, Aging, and Time Preference

Principal Investigator(s): Li-Wei Chao

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Financial Incentives for Weight Loss

Principal Investigator(s): Kevin Volpp

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
For Better, For Worse: Marriage and the Business Cycle

Principal Investigator(s): Stephen Shore

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Hidden Regret and Advantageous Selection in Insurance Markets

Principal Investigator(s): Alexander Muermann

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
How Do Sex Ratios Become Imbalanced? The Relative Importance of Migration, Mortality, and Incarceration

Principal Investigator(s): Kristen Harknett

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Impact of Prescription Copayments on Antidepressant Use and Adherence in Dual Eligibles: Implications for Medicare Part D

Principal Investigator(s): Jalpa Doshi

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Non-Response Bias in an Individual-Based Survey of Health Care Organizations: A "Double Sample" for the Multi-State Nursing Care & Patient Safety Study

Principal Investigator(s): Sean P. Clarke

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Race/Ethnic and Immigrant Differences in Disability: What Can We Learn from the 2000 Census of Population

Principal Investigator(s): Irma T. Elo

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
The Efficiency and Characteristics of Investment Choices Offered by 401(k) Pension Plans

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
The Literacy Gap between Those with High Levels and Low Levels of Educational Attainment among Older Adults: A Comparative Study of 20 Countries

Principal Investigator(s): Hyunjoon Park

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
The Muslim Mortality Puzzle in Bulgaria

Principal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Understanding Barriers to Hypertension Control in the Elderly

Principal Investigator(s): Barbara Turner

Award Dates: July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007
Anticipated Regret and the Disposition Effect

Principal Investigator(s): Alexander Muermann

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Body Capital and Socioeconomic Mobility

Principal Investigator(s): Virginia W. Chang

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Effects of School Vouchers on Education and Earning

Principal Investigator(s): Petra Todd

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Factors Responsible for the Changing Sex Differentials in Mortality at Older Ages in the United States

Principal Investigator(s): Samuel H. Preston

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
HIV/AIDS and Complete Sexual and Social Networks in Rural Malawi

Principal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler, Stéphane Helleringer

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
HIV/AIDS and Intergenerational Transfers in Malawi

Principal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Public Dissemination of Primary Qualitative Data from The Social Network and HIV study in Malawi

Principal Investigator(s): Susan C. Watkins

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Resource Flows Among Three Generations in Guatemala: Supplementary Analysis and Data Collection

Principal Investigator(s): Jere R. Behrman

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
The Causal Impact of Education on Income Volatility

Principal Investigator(s): Stephen Shore

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
The Impact of Oportunidades on Schooling, Work and Health Outcomes of Urban Youth in Mexico: Effects of School Vouchers on Education and Earning

Principal Investigator(s): Petra E. Todd

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
The Impact of the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill

Principal Investigator(s): Kenneth I. Wolpin

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
The Implications of Education by Gender for Fertiliy

Principal Investigator(s): José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Trust and Transfers in South Africa: Linking Surveys

Principal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler, Li-Wei Chao

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Understanding Pension Literacy

Principal Investigator(s): Olivia Mitchell

Award Dates: July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006
Analysis of the Linearity of Trends in the Dementia Severity Rating Scale

Principal Investigator(s): Douglas C. Ewbank

Award Dates: July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005
Grandparents and the Survival of their Grandchildren in the Gambia

Principal Investigator(s): Etienne van de Walle

Award Dates: July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005
Human Capital Risk and Family Co-Insurance

Principal Investigator(s): Stephen Shore

Award Dates: July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005
Self-medication among Adults in Mexico

Principal Investigator(s): José Pagán

Award Dates: July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005
Aging of Local Populations: A Preliminary Investigation

Principal Investigator(s): Herbert L. Smith

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
End-of-life treatment Choices and Spousal Impoverishment

Principal Investigator(s): Li-Wei Chao

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Estimating the Demographic Impact of HIV on the Elderly as Caretakers and Recipients of Family Economic Transfers

Principal Investigator(s): Susan C. Watkins

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Health Disparities in the Older Population of the US and Mexico

Principal Investigator(s): Iliana V. Kohler

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Health Insurance, Health, and Labor Force Participation Among Elderly Mexicans

Principal Investigator(s): Daniel Polsky

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Health Spending, Health System Finance, and Health Sector Reform in the Context of Demographic and Epidemiological Transition: the Mexico Case

Principal Investigator(s): Rebecca Wong, Felicia Marie Knaul

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Preliminary Proposal to Develop Norms for Cognitive Testing in Mexico

Principal Investigator(s): Douglas Ewbank

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Savings and Health Behavior over the Lifecycle and across Generations

Principal Investigator(s): John Knowles

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Selection Processes and Health/Mortality Outcomes in the US and Mexico

Principal Investigator(s): Iliana Kohler

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Social Security and Medicare Data to the NRC/NAS Twin Registry

Principal Investigator(s): Hans-Peter Kohler

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality in Finland and the US: the role of income and education

Principal Investigator(s): Irma T. Elo

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
The Living Arrangements of the Elderly Widows

Principal Investigator(s): José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
Understanding International Best Practice in Pension Regulation and Supervision

Principal Investigator(s): Robert Boruch

Award Dates: July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004
An Exploratory Analysis of Household Composition and Intergenerational Exchange in Asian American Households

Principal Investigator(s): Grace Kao

Award Dates: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003
Exploring methods to incorporate public-use data in aging research studies

Principal Investigator(s): Julie Sochalski

Award Dates: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003
Health Status, Measurement and Intergenerational Caregiving

Principal Investigator(s): Jerry Jacobs

Award Dates: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003
Living Arrangements of the Elderly Population in Africa in the Era of HIV/AIDS

Principal Investigator(s): Tukufu Zuberi

Award Dates: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2004
Microsimulation of HIV Transmission Across the Life Cycle in sub-Saharan Africa

Principal Investigator(s): Susan C. Watkins

Award Dates: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2004
Population Aging in Africa in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Census Data

Principal Investigator(s): Tukufu Zuberi, Amadou Noumbissi

Award Dates: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2004
Selection Processes and Ethnic/Socioeconomic Differences in Mortality and Morbidity

Principal Investigator(s): Iliana Kohler

Award Dates: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003
The Social Environment and Diabetes Control: A Case-Control Study

Principal Investigator(s): Judith A. Long

Award Dates: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003
Trends in Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality

Principal Investigator(s): Irma Elo

Award Dates: July 1, 2002 - June 30, 2003

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