Selected Publications

• "An Empirical Analysis of the Social Security Disability Application, Appeal, and Award Process," (with M. Buchinsky, H-M. Chan, J. Rust, and S. Sheidvasser) Labour Economics, 6, 147-178, 1999.
• "How Large is the Bias in Self-Reported Disability Status?", (with M. Buchinsky, H-M. Chan, J. Rust, and S. Sheidvasser), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 19-6, 649-670, 2004.
• "The Rationality of Retirement Expectations and the Role of New Information," (with Debra S. Dwyer), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 87-3, 587-592, 2005.
• "Expectation Formation of Older Married Couples and the Rational Expectations Hypothesis," (with Debra S. Dwyer), Labour Economics, Vol. 13-2 191-218, 2006.
• "The Educated Russian's Curse: Returns to Education in the Russian Federation during the 1990s," (with Sofia Cheidvasser), LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Vol. 21(1) 1-41, 2007.
• "The Social Security Earnings Test Revisited: Information as a Work Incentive," (with Frank Heiland). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM), Vol. 26(3) 527-555, 2007. Plus and appendix available in the online version.
• "Expectations in Micro Data: Rationality Revisited " (with Deb Dwyer, Wayne-Roy Gayle, and Tom Muench), Empirical Economics, Vol. 34-2 381-416, 2008.
• "Health Status and Health Dynamics in an Empirical Model of Expected Longevity" (with Huan Ni), Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 27-3 564-584, 2008.
• "Early Claiming of Social Security Benefits and Labor Supply Behavior of Older Americans," (with Frank Heiland), Applied Economics, Vol. 40-23, 2969-2985, 2008.
• "An Empirical Study of the Effects of Social Security Reforms on Claiming Behavior and Benefits Receipt Using Public-Use Administrative Micro Data," (with Na Yin), Social Security Bulletin-Perspectives, Vol. 69-3, 77-95, 2009.
• ``Using the Health and Retirement Study to Analyze Housing Decisions, Housing Values, and Housing Prices,'' (2010), with Selcuk Eren, Frank Heiland, and Sergi Jimenez-Martin. Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, Vol. 12-2, 149-158, 2010.
• ``Disability, Capacity for Work, and the Business Cycle: An International Perspective,'' with Richard Disney, and Sergi Jimenez-Martin. Economic Policy, Vol 25, issue 63, 483-536, 2010.
• ``The Effects of Automobiles Recalls on the Severity of Accidents,'' (2010) with Yong-Kyun Bae. Accepted for publication in Economic Inquiry , 2010.
• "Do Vehicle Recalls Reduce the Number of Accidents? The Case of the U.S. Car Market," with Yong-Kyun Bae (Hood College), (2010). Accepted for publication in the by Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM)..