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WPS 06-14

Chang, Virginia W. and Diane S. Lauderdale

Income Disparities in Body Mass Index and Obesity in the United States, 1971-2002

Archives of Internal Medicine, 165 (18):2122-2128, 2005.

WPS 06-13

Soldo, Beth J; Mitchell, Olivia S; Tfaily, Rania; and McCabe, John F

Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement

WPS 06-12

Skog, Jeremy

Who Knows What About Their Pensions? Financial Literacy in the Chilean Individual Account
System

WPS 06-11

Behrman, Jere R; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A; Soler-Hampejsek, Erica; Behrman, Emily L; Martorell, Reynaldo; Ramirez-Zeal, Manuel; and Stein, Aryeh D.

What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Impacts of Pre-Schooling, Schooling and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala

WPS 06-10

Shore, Stephen H.

The Intergenerational Transmission of Income
Volatility: Is Riskiness Inherited?

WPS 06-09

Lucarelli, Claudio

An Analysis of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

WPS 06-08

Muermann, Akexander and Volkman, Jacqueline M.

Regret, Pride, and the Disposition Effect

WPS 06-07

Schnittker, Jason

When Mental Health Becomes Health: Age and the Shifting Meaning of Self-Evaluations
of General Health

The Milbank Quarterly, 83(3), 397-423, Sep 2005. 

WPS 06-06

Turra, Cassio M. and Elo, Irma T.

The Impact of Salmon Bias on the Hispanic Mortality Advantage:
New Evidence from Social Security Data

WPS 06-05

J.A. Long, K. Armstrong, V.W. Chang, Z. Chen, and J.P. Metlay

Social Capital, Race, and Glucose Control

WPS 06-04

Alberto Arenas de Mesa, David Bravo, Jere R. Behrman, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Petra E. Todd
With assistance from Andres Otero, Jeremy Skog, Javiera Vasquez, and Viviana Velez-Grajales

The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25: Lessons from the Social Protection Survey

WPS 06-03

Sharon X. Xie, Douglas C. Ewbank, Jesse Chittams, Jason H.T. Karlawish, Steven E. Arnold, Christopher M. Clark

Rate of Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease Measured by a Dementia Severity Rating Scale

WPS 06-02

Helleringer, Stéphane; Kohler, Hans-Peter

The structure of sexual networks and the spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from
Likoma island (Malawi)

AIDS, 21(17):2323–2332

WPS 06-01

Preston, Samuel; Wang, Haidong

Sex Mortality Differentials in the United States: The Role of Cohort Smoking Patterns