A new survey conducted by Employee Benefits Research Institute using HRS data found that one in every five Americans will run out of money due to healthcare expenses, with those dying between the ages of 50 and 64 faring worse than older groups.
In May 2015, Christopher Murray, Director of the University of Washington’s Center for Health Trends and Forecasts at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, signed an agreement with the World Health Organization for the two centers to collaborate on...
In recent years, behavioral economics research has examined how psychology impacts people’s responses to macroeconomic events like recessions. A good example cited here is a study by University of California Berkeley economics professor Ulrike Malmendier, which...
A new study by Arline Geronimus et al. found that low-income residents of Detroit, regardless of race, have significantly shorter telomeres than the national average. But the effects of race/ethnicity and income within this group were varied. Geronimus says...
Many people plan their retirement based on age and savings. But others find themselves retiring for health or social reasons, or because they feel technology is squeezing them out. Also, older workers looking for jobs may be discouraged from re-entering the workforce....
