Ongoing Research - Near Elderly Population

Research on the Near Elderly Population addresses certain aspects of health insurance coverage that are more acute as people approach retirement age.

Pent-Up Demand: Health Care Use of the Uninsured Near Elderly

Li-Wu Chen, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Phani Tej Adidam, University of Nebraska at Omaha

This project will investigate the amount of pent-up demand for health services in the population of individuals approaching age 65 with no health insurance and those who have insurance through the individual market.

Modeling the Impact of Health Insurance on Retirement

John Bound: University of Michigan
Todd Stinebrickner: University of Western Ontario
Timothy Waidmann: The Urban Institute

What are the effects of employer-sponsored health insurance on the behavior of workers in their 50s and 60s, as they near retirement? Researchers intend to explore the behavior of working adults nearing retirement age as they confront a variety of options in the private and public health insurance markets.

Health Status, Insurance, and Expenditures: An Analysis of the Health and Retirement Survey

John Philip Rust: University of Maryland
Moshe Buchinsky: University of California
Hugo Benitez-Silva: State University of New York - Stony Brook

This project will estimate a comprehensive empirical dynamic programming model of behavior at the end of the life cycle that provides a detailed treatment of the Social Security Administration's Old Age and Survivors (OASI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Disability Insurance (DI) programs, and Medicare and Medicaid programs.