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Kathleen McGarry
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 122
Citations - 8365
Kathleen McGarry is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health and Retirement Study & Population. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 122 publications receiving 7903 citations. Previous affiliations of Kathleen McGarry include National Bureau of Economic Research & University of California, Berkeley.
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Multiple Dimensions of Private Information: Evidence from the Long-Term Care Insurance Market
Amy Finkelstein,Kathleen McGarry +1 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that insurance markets may suffer from asymmetric information even absent a positive correlation between insurance coverage and risk occurrence, and suggest a general test for asymmetric Information.
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Evaluation of the Subjective Probabilities of Survival in the Health and Retirement Study
Michael D. Hurd,Kathleen McGarry +1 more
TL;DR: In the Health and Retirement Study respondents were asked about the chances they would live to 75 or to 85 as mentioned in this paper, and these responses were analyzed to determine if they behave like probabilities of survival, if their averages are close to average probabilities in the population, and if they have correlations with other variables that are similar to correlations with actual mortality outcomes.
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National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Preventing Alzheimer Disease and Cognitive Decline
Martha L. Daviglus,Carl C. Bell,Wade H. Berrettini,Phyllis E. Bowen,E. Sander Connolly,Nancy J. Cox,Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob,Evelyn C. Granieri,Gail Hunt,Kathleen McGarry,Dinesh Patel,Arnold L. Potosky,Elaine Sanders-Bush,Donald H. Silberberg,Maurizio Trevisan +14 more
TL;DR: This article provides the panel's assessment of the available evidence on prevention of cognitive decline and Alzheimer disease.
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Transfer Behavior in the Health and Retirement Study: Measurement and the Redistribution of Resources within the Family
TL;DR: This article found that in the case of inter-vivos transfers, respondents give greater financial assistance to their less well off children than to their children with higher incomes, and that financial transfers to elderly parents are negatively related to the recipient's income.
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The Predictive Validity of Subjective Probabilities of Survival
Michael D. Hurd,Kathleen McGarry +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used panel data to study the evolution of subjective survival probabilities and their ability to predict actual mortality and found that respondents modify appropriately their survival probabilities based on new information The onset of a new disease condition or the death of a parent between the waves is associated with a reduction in survival probabilities.