Susann Rohwedder
Biographic Data
| ID | 1471387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susann Rohwedder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susann |
| FAMILY NAME | Rohwedder |
| SIGNATURE | ROHWEDDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND Corporation |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9482-5286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inequalities in the Duration and Lifetime Risk of Dementia in the United States
Dementia prevalence exceeds 40% for individuals in advanced old age, but that figure is not informative about the lifetime risk of ever having dementia or the risk of having dementia for different durations. This study presents U.S. nationally representative estimates of the probability of having dementia for at least six months or one, two, or five years before death and variation in this probability by sex, race and ethnicity, health, and socio…
Saving regret and procrastination
Does Home Production Replace Consumption Spending? Evidence from Shocks in Housing Wealth in the Great Recession
Becker's theory of home production suggests substitutability between consumption spending and home production. Using panel data with detailed information on spending and time use, we analyze households' ability to replace consumption spending by home-produced counterparts. Keeping wages fixed and changing lifetime resources by the shock to housing wealth during the Great Recession, we estimate an elasticity of substitution that is consistent with…
Measuring Probability Numeracy
Probability numeracy is the ability of individuals to think in probabilistic terms and use probabilities effectively in everyday life. Measuring probability numeracy helps to understand how well individuals can plan for uncertainty, such as the likelihood of losing a job over the next year, and to identify groups who make suboptimal life decisions because of their limited understanding of probabilities. In this paper, we explore different batteri…
Cognitive Ability, Personality, and Pathways to Retirement
This article describes an exploratory study that investigates the extent to which two sets of psychological factors, fluid cognitive ability and personality traits, predict late-in-life work and retirement outcomes. Using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study, we first provide a detailed characterization of within-subject work-to-retirement pathways, spanning 14 years of data for each individual, and identify the most frequent pa…
Dementia Prevalence in the United States in 2000 and 2012
The prevalence of dementia among those 65 or older decreased between 2000 and 2012, although less rapidly than reported in other studies. The difference is primarily due to our modeling selection into proxy interviews
How Do Management Fees Affect Retirement Wealth under M exico's Personal Retirement Accounts System
In 1997, Mexico transformed its pay-as-you-go social security system to a fully funded system with personal retirement accounts, including management fees. This article examines changes in retirement wealth resulting from this new system. It shows that management fees have drained a significant proportion of individuals' retirement wealth and have increased the number of persons claiming a government-subsidized minimum pension, particularly from …
Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey
Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the aggregate of about 40 spending components. This paper reports on a number of outcomes from 30 waves of data collection. These outcomes include sample attrition, indicators of data quality such as item nonresponse and the variance in total spending, and substantive results such as the trajectory of total spending and the trajectories of s…
Volume 48 Index
Trends in Labor Force Participation
Differential Survival in Europe and the United States
Cross-country comparisons of differential survival by socioeconomic status (SES) are useful in many domains. Yet, to date, such studies have been rare. Reliably estimating differential survival in a single country has been challenging because it requires rich panel data with a large sample size. Cross-country estimates have proven even more difficult because the measures of SES need to be comparable internationally. We present an alternative meth…
Mental Retirement
Early retirement appears to have a significant negative impact on the cognitive ability of people in their early 60s that is both quantitatively important and causal. We obtain this finding using cross-nationally comparable survey data from the United States, England, and Europe that allow us to relate cognition and labor force status. We argue that the effect is causal by making use of a substantial body of research showing that variation in pen…
Mental Retirement
Early retirement appears to have a significant negative impact on the cognitive ability of people in their early 60s that is both quantitatively important and causal. We obtain this finding using cross-nationally comparable survey data from the United States, England, and Europe that allow us to relate cognition and labor force status. We argue that the effect is causal by making use of a substantial body of research showing that variation in pen…
Differential Survival in Europe and the United States
Cross-country comparisons of differential survival by socioeconomic status (SES) are useful in many domains. Yet, to date, such studies have been rare. Reliably estimating differential survival in a single country has been challenging because it requires rich panel data with a large sample size. Cross-country estimates have proven even more difficult because the measures of SES need to be comparable internationally. We present an alternative meth…
Dementia Prevalence in the United States in 2000 and 2012
The prevalence of dementia among those 65 or older decreased between 2000 and 2012, although less rapidly than reported in other studies. The difference is primarily due to our modeling selection into proxy interviews
Saving regret and procrastination
Cognitive Ability, Personality, and Pathways to Retirement
This article describes an exploratory study that investigates the extent to which two sets of psychological factors, fluid cognitive ability and personality traits, predict late-in-life work and retirement outcomes. Using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study, we first provide a detailed characterization of within-subject work-to-retirement pathways, spanning 14 years of data for each individual, and identify the most frequent pa…
Trends in Labor Force Participation
Inequalities in the Duration and Lifetime Risk of Dementia in the United States
Dementia prevalence exceeds 40% for individuals in advanced old age, but that figure is not informative about the lifetime risk of ever having dementia or the risk of having dementia for different durations. This study presents U.S. nationally representative estimates of the probability of having dementia for at least six months or one, two, or five years before death and variation in this probability by sex, race and ethnicity, health, and socio…
How Do Management Fees Affect Retirement Wealth under M exico's Personal Retirement Accounts System
In 1997, Mexico transformed its pay-as-you-go social security system to a fully funded system with personal retirement accounts, including management fees. This article examines changes in retirement wealth resulting from this new system. It shows that management fees have drained a significant proportion of individuals' retirement wealth and have increased the number of persons claiming a government-subsidized minimum pension, particularly from …
Mental Retirement
Early retirement appears to have a significant negative impact on the cognitive ability of people in their early 60s that is both quantitatively important and causal. We obtain this finding using cross-nationally comparable survey data from the United States, England, and Europe that allow us to relate cognition and labor force status. We argue that the effect is causal by making use of a substantial body of research showing that variation in pen…
Volume 48 Index
Trends in Labor Force Participation
Differential Survival in Europe and the United States
Cross-country comparisons of differential survival by socioeconomic status (SES) are useful in many domains. Yet, to date, such studies have been rare. Reliably estimating differential survival in a single country has been challenging because it requires rich panel data with a large sample size. Cross-country estimates have proven even more difficult because the measures of SES need to be comparable internationally. We present an alternative meth…
Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey
Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the aggregate of about 40 spending components. This paper reports on a number of outcomes from 30 waves of data collection. These outcomes include sample attrition, indicators of data quality such as item nonresponse and the variance in total spending, and substantive results such as the trajectory of total spending and the trajectories of s…
How Do Management Fees Affect Retirement Wealth under M exico's Personal Retirement Accounts System
In 1997, Mexico transformed its pay-as-you-go social security system to a fully funded system with personal retirement accounts, including management fees. This article examines changes in retirement wealth resulting from this new system. It shows that management fees have drained a significant proportion of individuals' retirement wealth and have increased the number of persons claiming a government-subsidized minimum pension, particularly from …
Cognitive Ability, Personality, and Pathways to Retirement
This article describes an exploratory study that investigates the extent to which two sets of psychological factors, fluid cognitive ability and personality traits, predict late-in-life work and retirement outcomes. Using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study, we first provide a detailed characterization of within-subject work-to-retirement pathways, spanning 14 years of data for each individual, and identify the most frequent pa…
Dementia Prevalence in the United States in 2000 and 2012
The prevalence of dementia among those 65 or older decreased between 2000 and 2012, although less rapidly than reported in other studies. The difference is primarily due to our modeling selection into proxy interviews
Measuring Probability Numeracy
Probability numeracy is the ability of individuals to think in probabilistic terms and use probabilities effectively in everyday life. Measuring probability numeracy helps to understand how well individuals can plan for uncertainty, such as the likelihood of losing a job over the next year, and to identify groups who make suboptimal life decisions because of their limited understanding of probabilities. In this paper, we explore different batteri…
Does Home Production Replace Consumption Spending? Evidence from Shocks in Housing Wealth in the Great Recession
Becker's theory of home production suggests substitutability between consumption spending and home production. Using panel data with detailed information on spending and time use, we analyze households' ability to replace consumption spending by home-produced counterparts. Keeping wages fixed and changing lifetime resources by the shock to housing wealth during the Great Recession, we estimate an elasticity of substitution that is consistent with…
Saving regret and procrastination
Inequalities in the Duration and Lifetime Risk of Dementia in the United States
Dementia prevalence exceeds 40% for individuals in advanced old age, but that figure is not informative about the lifetime risk of ever having dementia or the risk of having dementia for different durations. This study presents U.S. nationally representative estimates of the probability of having dementia for at least six months or one, two, or five years before death and variation in this probability by sex, race and ethnicity, health, and socio…
Economics (7 works) · Statistics (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (4 works)