5 papers
Assortative Marriage and Geographic Sorting
Jiaming Mao, Jiayi Wen
Between 1980 and 2000, the U.S. experienced a significant rise in geographic sorting and educational homogamy, with college graduates increasingly concentrating in high-skill citie…
Insuring Long-Term Care in Developing Countries: The Interaction between Formal and Informal Insurance
Jiayi Wen, Xiaoqing Yu
Does public insurance reduce uninsured long-term care (LTC) risks in developing countries, where informal insurance predominates? This paper exploits the rollout of LTC insurance i…
A New Testing Method for Justification Bias Using High-Frequency Data of Health and Employment
Jiayi Wen, Zixi Ye, Xuan Zhang
Justification bias, wherein retirees may report poorer health to rationalize their retirement, poses a major concern to the widely-used measure of self-assessed health in retiremen…
Parental Health Penalty on Adult Children's Employment: Gender Difference and Long-Term Consequence
Jiayi Wen, Haili Huang
This paper examines the long-term gender-specific impacts of parental health shocks on adult children's employment in China. We build up an inter-temporal cooperative framework to…
Occupational Retirement and Pension Reform: The Roles of Physical and Cognitive Health
Jiayi Wen
Despite increasing cognitive demands of jobs, knowledge about the role of health in retirement has centered on its physical dimensions. This paper estimates a dynamic programming m…