Making Turkey’s Transformation Possible: Claiming ‘Security‐ speak’—not Desecuritization!

Probabilistic Thinking and Social Security Claiming

This study analyzes the extent to which an individual’s survival expectations influence his or her decision to claim social security benefits at an early age. We find that subjective survival probabilities capture meaningful behavioral responses to incentives for early Social Security claiming when they are purged of measurement error using risk factors as instruments. Among people who are stil...

Probabilistic Thinking and Early Social Security Claiming

Framing and Claiming: How Information-Framing Affects Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior.

This paper provides evidence that Social Security benefit claiming decisions are strongly affected by framing and are thus inconsistent with expected utility theory. Using a randomized experiment that controls for both observable and unobservable differences across individuals, we find that the use of a "breakeven analysis" encourages early claiming. Respondents are more likely to delay when la...

Making change possible: a Transformation Fund for the NHS

Claiming health: mammography screening decision making of African American women.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop a substantive theory that explains how African American women aged 50 years and older of different socioeconomic status (SES) make decisions about mammography screening. DESIGN Qualitative, grounded theory. SETTING Churches, places of employment, or women's homes in a large city in Ohio. SAMPLE 30 women aged 52-72 years; 16 in the initial sample and 14 in the...