Enrollment for health insurance under the ACA has varied significantly, says Heather Howard, depending on the level of state outreach. Those states with their own insurance marketplace are better equipped because “they can more on a dime and say, ‘Boy,...
The importance of early life conditions for health across the life course continues to be a very relevant topic of interest among scholars from many different backgrounds and disciplines. On March 20-21, 2014 MiCDA and ICPSR sponsored a workshop on the Long-run...
Bob Willis and Joanne Hsu found that household financial decision-makers who experience dementia often turn over financial management to their partners well after problems in handling money have emerged. In fact, they found that 80% of the money-managing spouses who...
Citing a report by Susann Rohwedder and Robert Willis, this story suggests that seniors’ retirement planning should include consideration of continuing some sort of unpaid (or even paid) work. In a cross-national study, Rohwedder and Willis found that early...