Aug 19, 2020
Using data on 400 married couples over age 50, Vicki Freedman found that, relative to household chores, the wives found greater happiness and less frustration in performing care-based tasks for their husbands. “What we found was surprising,” said Freedman....
Aug 19, 2020
States running their own insurance exchanges, although they may struggle initially more than states with federally run exchanges, may end up doing better in the longer term, says Heather Howard: “They have consumer assistance infrastructure, grants out to...
Aug 19, 2020
Rather than try (somewhat unsuccessfully) to force individuals to enroll in health insurance under ACA, Uwe Reinhardt says the government should motivate people to sign up by barring the uninsured from federally subsidized coverage at community-rated premiums. He...
Aug 19, 2020
Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder find that spending rates at retirement vary substantially, with increases in the upper half of the wealth distribution, but declines in the low-wealth population. Where spending declines at higher rates, the main explanation seems to...
Aug 19, 2020
Without a charismatic leader, says Eric Kingson, the ‘Silver Revolution’ will not take hold in America. And, while AARP pushes ideas “important for older people,” he says “they’re not the Gray Panthers.”
