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Working Paper

The Medicaid Program on Welfare Participation and Labor Supply

December 1990

The outline of the paper is as follows. In the next section we briefly lay out the background of the Medicaid program.

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Working Paper

Entry Into Marriage and the Transition to Adulthood

December 1990

This paper examines life course events experienced by persons born between 1952 and 1967.

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Working Paper

Response and Procedural Error Variance in Surveys

December 1990

In this paper we assess the relative importance of response and procedural error variance in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

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Working Paper

The Saving Effect of Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts

December 1990

Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) rapidly became a very popular form of saving after they became available to all employees in 1982.

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Working Paper

Spells Without Health Insurance

December 1990

This paper is part of a larger analysis we are currently conducting of the characteristics of people with long versus short spells without health insurance.

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Working Paper

Aiding Respondents in the Dating of Longitudinal Processes

December 1990

In 1983 the Bureau of the Census initiated the SIPP, a survey designed to measure the economic and social changes in persons lives over time.

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Working Paper

Proxy Reports: Results from a Record Check Study

December 1990

This paper examines response error differences between self- and proxy respondents in a major and relatively new Census Bureau household survey--the SIPP.

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Working Paper

Children and Welfare: Patterns of Multiple Program Participation

December 1990

This study uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to address these research gaps by analyzing the dynamics of participation.

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Working Paper

Discrete Time Models of Entry into Marriage

December 1990

The purpose of this paper is to identify and redress the wide gap between the theoretical potential of this approach and its empirical implementation.

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Working Paper

The Effects of Being Uninsured on Health Care Service Use

October 1990

There is growing concern about the number of people in the United States who have no health insurance.

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Working Paper

Racial Differences in Health and Health Care Service Utilization

October 1990

The primary goal of this study in to consider the association between socioeconomic status and health among blacks and whites in later life.

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Working Paper

Nonresponse Research for the SIPP

October 1990

After providing background on the SIPP, this paper discusses the two currently active nonresponse projects mentioned above and plans for extending the research.

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Working Paper

The Seam Effect in Panel Surveys

October 1990

This paper is concerned with a type of measurement error encountered in panel surveys that has become known as the seam effect.

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Working Paper

Handling Single Wave Nonresponse in a Panel Survey

October 1990

In cross-sectional surveys, nonresponse is categorized in two ways: unit (total) nonresponse and item nonresponse.

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Working Paper

SIPP Record Check Results

August 1990

Reports the results of a record check study for the SIPP. The study covers 8 months of reported participation in 8 programs for the SIPP sample in 4 states.

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Working Paper

Measurement Errors in SIPP Program Reports

1990

The purposes of the SIPP Record Check Study are to evaluate the quality of the program participation data and to generate ideas for improving the data quality.

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Working Paper

Workers With Disabilities in Large and Small Firms

August 1990

The need to address the special problems of disabled people in smaller firms has drawn attention to the lack of good statistical information on this population.

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Working Paper

Aging and the Income Value of Housing Wealth

July 1990

This paper analyzes the extent to which housing equity could change the consumption of the elderly, if housing equity were converted to a more liquid form.

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Working Paper

Wage Differential and Job Changes

June 1990

The economic conditions affecting job mobility decisions range from discretionary choice factors to exogenous factors beyond the control of workers.

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Working Paper

Childcare Effects on Social Security Benefits (91 ARC)

June 1990

Time out of the labor force can reduce substantially the size of the caregiver's resultant social security and pension benefits in old age.

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Working Paper

Longitudinal Analysis of Federal Survey Data

June 1990

The purpose of this paper is to provide some guidance to users and potential users of longitudinal data sets who are trying to sort out appropriate approaches.

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Working Paper

Living Benefits: Closing The Gap for LTC Financing

June 1990

Assesses the possible part that living benefits could play in financing long term care for the current elderly by examining the holdings of life insurance.

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Working Paper

Welfare Participation and Welfare Recidivism

June 1990

Focus on patterns of participation in the AFDC program and the timing of demographic and socioeconomic events within the family.

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Working Paper

Estimates of Employer Contributions for Health Ins. by Worker Char.

June 1990

To determine the feasibility of collecting information from employers about their contributions for health insurance and private pension plans for workers.

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Working Paper

The Elderly and Their Sources of Income

June 1990

Transfer payments (largely from government programs), and property income (dividends, interest, and rent).

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Working Paper

Wages and Employment Among the Working Poor: New Evidence from SIPP

June 1990

Uses the detailed labor force information available from the SIPP to examine wages, employment patterns, and sources of income among the working poor.

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Working Paper

The Effect of the Marriage Market on First Marriages

June 1990

The rise in the number of female-headed families in the U.S. has generated interest in the effects of the AFDC.

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Working Paper

Household and Nonhousehold Living Arrangements in Later Life

June 1990

Choice of living arrangement may be associated with different costs and different access to public and private resources.

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Working Paper

Recent Developments in the Survey of Income and Program Participation

April 1990

Since October 1983, the SIPP has provided both cross-sectional and longitudinal data broadly applicable to analysis of various aspects of economic well-being.

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Working Paper

Alternative Estimates of Economic Well-Being by Age

March 1990

This paper examines the use of income-wealth measures for the analysis of the distribution of economic well-being for age groups in the current period.

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Working Paper

Pension Portability & Labor Mobility: Evidence from SIPP

1990

This paper investigates whether a lack of pension portability is primarily responsible for the low job mobility rates observed for pension covered workers.

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Working Paper

What Affects Spell Durations and Who Are the Chronically Uninsured

1990

In this paper we provide a first approximation of the types of people who are most likely to have long spells without health insurance.

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Working Paper

Local Labor Markets and Local Area Effects on Welfare Duration

1990

This paper incorporates relevant labor market area and other local area information in the estimation of welfare duration models using data from the SIPP.

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