James Patrick Smith

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Cohort profile: the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). (2014) (1290)
The new Americans: economic demographic and fiscal effects of immigration. (1997) (798)
Disease and disadvantage in the United States and in England. (2006) (787)
Socioeconomic Status and Health (1998) (636)
Black Economic Progress after Myrdal (1989) (606)
Immigrant Health--Selectivity and Acculturation (2004) (599)
Can patient self-management help explain the SES health gradient? (2002) (547)
Macroeconomic implications of population ageing and selected policy responses (2015) (456)
Unraveling the SES health connection (2004) (388)
The long shadow cast by childhood physical and mental problems on adult life (2011) (343)
The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes (2005) (343)
Vignettes and self-reports of work disability in the United States and the Netherlands (2007) (340)
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Wealth in the Health and Retirement Study (2004) (262)
The Measurement and Structure of Household Wealth (1999) (255)
The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirement and Social Security Claiming (2002) (251)
Life Satisfaction (2009) (242)
Economic Shocks, Wealth, and Welfare (2003) (240)
The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Health over the Life-Course (2007) (231)
Long-term economic costs of psychological problems during childhood. (2010) (227)
Applications and Case Studies Improving the Quality of Economic Data: Lessons from the HRS and AHEAD (1997) (222)
Lost But Not Forgotten Attribution and Follow-up in the Indonesian Family Life Survey (2001) (217)
What Do We Really Know about Wages? The Importance of Nonreporting and Census Imputation (1986) (211)
The Decline in Household Saving and the Wealth Effect (2004) (206)
The health of aging populations in China and India. (2008) (204)
Assimilation across the Latino Generations (2003) (198)
The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe (2012) (190)
Demographic and economic correlates of health in old age (1997) (183)
Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Health in Late Life (1998) (174)
Marriage, Assets, and Savings (1999) (174)
Consequences and Predictors of New Health Events (2003) (173)
Female Labor Supply: Theory and Estimation. (1980) (170)
Race and Human Capital (1984) (168)
Financial Decision Making and Cognition in a Family Context (2010) (167)
Closing the Gap: Forty Years of Economic Progress for Blacks (1986) (166)
Remembrances of things past: test–retest reliability of retrospective migration histories (2002) (158)
Gender Differences in Cognition among Older Adults in China (2011) (157)
Legal status and health insurance among immigrants. (2005) (154)
Immigrants and the cost of medical care. (2006) (151)
Wages, employment and economic shocks: Evidence from Indonesia (2002) (149)
Reconstructing childhood health histories (2009) (143)
Black-White Male Wage Ratios: 1960-1970.: (1976) (143)
Affirmative Action and Labor Markets (1984) (139)
The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (1998) (134)
Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence (2006) (127)
Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change Over Time: Evidence from Charls (2014) (126)
Women in the Labor Market and in the Family (1989) (122)
The increasing value of education to health. (2011) (119)
The new immigrant survey pilot (NIS-P): Overview and new findings about U.S. Legal immigrants at admission (2000) (117)
Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS (2010) (112)
Childhood Health: Trends and Consequences over the Life Course (2012) (105)
Immigrants and the Labor Market (2006) (104)
Expected Bequests and Their Distribution (2002) (102)
Women's Wages and Work in the Twentieth Century: (1984) (98)
Health Outcomes and Socio-economic Status Among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot (2010) (97)
The Distribution of Family Earnings (1979) (94)
Housing Price Volatility and Downsizing in Later Life (2007) (89)
Poverty dynamics and parental mental health: Determinants of childhood mental health in the UK. (2017) (88)
Nature and causes of trends in male diabetes prevalence, undiagnosed diabetes, and the socioeconomic status health gradient (2007) (88)
Healthy Aging in China. (2014) (87)
Undiagnosed disease, especially diabetes, casts doubt on some of reported health 'advantage' of recent Mexican immigrants. (2012) (80)
Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the USA (2012) (79)
Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study (2006) (78)
The Ses Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic (2006) (77)
Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales (2007) (73)
Prevalence, diagnosis, and management of diabetes mellitus among older Chinese: results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2016) (72)
From Illegal to Legal: Estimating Previous Illegal Experience among New Legal Immigrants to the United States 1 (2008) (67)
Understanding Differences in Household Financial Wealth between the United States and Great Britain (2003) (67)
Female labor supply (1980) (66)
The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China (2010) (66)
Disease prevalence, disease incidence, and mortality in the United States and in England (2010) (66)
Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain (2006) (64)
Hukou system, mechanisms, and health stratification across the life course in rural and urban China. (2019) (63)
Immigration, health, and New York City: early results based on the U.S. new immigrant cohort of 2003 (2005) (60)
Can China age healthily? (2014) (59)
Individual Behaviour as a Pathway between Early�?Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post�?War Germany (2013) (59)
Affirmative Action and the Racial Wage Gap (1993) (57)
The overeducated American? a review article (1978) (53)
House price volatility and housing ownership over the lifecycle (2004) (53)
Self-reported Work Disability in the US and The Netherlands (2004) (53)
Wealth Portfolios in the UK and the Us (2002) (52)
What they say and what they do: comparing physical activity across the USA, England and the Netherlands (2018) (52)
Enhancing the Quality of Data on Income (2003) (51)
Lost but not forgotten: attrition in the Indonesian Family Life Survey. (1999) (51)
Effects of income supplementation on health of the poor elderly: The case of Mexico (2014) (51)
House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder (2010) (50)
Are Americans Really Less Happy with Their Incomes? (2011) (49)
Work, Retirement, and Depression (2009) (49)
Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies (2005) (48)
Exploring the Religious Preference of Recent Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot (2003) (45)
Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, the Netherlands, and the United States (2005) (43)
From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger: Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland (2011) (40)
PANEL ON POLICY RESEARCH AND DATA NEEDS TO MEET THE CHALLENGE OF AGING IN ASIA (2012) (40)
Temporary and permanent unit non-response in follow-up interviews of the Health and Retirement Study (2011) (38)
The Impact of SES on Health over the Life-Course (2005) (37)
The Changing Economic Circumstances of the Elderly: Income, Wealth, and Social Security (1997) (36)
Effects of Social Activities on Cognitive Functions: Evidence from CHARLS (2012) (35)
Intervivos Giving Over the Lifecycle (2011) (35)
Diabetes and the Rise of the Ses Health Gradient (2007) (35)
Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time (2009) (34)
Anchoring Vignettes and Response Consistency (2011) (33)
Family Labor Supply over the Life Cycle (2004) (33)
Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England (2011) (33)
Regional disparities in adult height, educational attainment, and late-life cognition: Findings from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI) (2014) (32)
Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups (2006) (32)
Lost but Not Forgotten (2001) (31)
Retirement Effect on Health Status and Health Behaviors in Urban China. (2020) (31)
Comparing Life Satisfaction (2009) (30)
Wealth, work, and health : innovations in measurement in the social sciences : essays in honor of F. Thomas Juster (1999) (30)
Why is Wealth Inequality Rising (2004) (30)
Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from Charls National Baseline (2013) (30)
International Comparisons in Health Economics: Evidence from Aging Studies (2011) (29)
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S. (2009) (29)
Poverty and the Family (2004) (29)
Sibling gender composition’s effect on education: evidence from China (2017) (28)
Do Social Networks Improve Chinese Adults' Subjective Well-Being? (2015) (28)
Assortative Mating Among Married New Legal Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot (2000) (27)
Inequality: Race Differences in the Distribution of Earnings. Rand Paper Series P5481-1. (1977) (27)
Savings and Wealth; Then and Now (2004) (26)
International Comparisons of Work Disability (2004) (26)
Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes between England and the United States (2011) (25)
Wealth inequality in the United States and Great Britain (2000) (25)
Wealth Portfolios in the United Kingdom and the United States (2004) (25)
Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States (2010) (23)
The U.S. New Immigrant Survey: Overview and Preliminary Results Based on the New- Immigrant Cohorts of 1996 and 2003 (2017) (23)
No Time to Be Young: The Economic Prospects for Large Cohorts in the United States (1981) (22)
Do Cross-Country Variations in Social Integration and Social Interactions Explain Differences in Life Expectancy in Industrialized Countries? (2010) (22)
Early-life Deprivation and Health Outcomes in Adulthood: Evidence from Childhood Hunger Episodes of Middle-aged and Elderly Chinese. (2020) (22)
The value of education to health: Evidence from Ireland (2018) (21)
Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the US and the UK: Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference? (2015) (21)
Early-Life Circumstances Predict Measures of Trust Among Adults: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany (2016) (20)
Assortative Mating among Married New Legal Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot 1 (2000) (20)
What explains the American disadvantage in health compared with the English? The case of diabetes (2010) (19)
Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status Among the Elderly in Gansu and Zhejiang Provinces, China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot. (2010) (19)
Inheritances and Bequests (1997) (19)
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the United States (2011) (18)
The New Immigrant Survey Pilot (NIS-P) (2000) (17)
Life satisfaction in China and consumption and income inequalities (2018) (16)
Financial Education Interventions Targeting Immigrants and Children of Immigrants: Results from a Randomized Control Trial. (2016) (15)
The U.S. New Immigrant Survey: Overview and First Results from the Baseline Round of the NIS-2003 Cohort (2005) (15)
Enhancing the Quality of Data on the Measurement of Income and Wealth (2007) (15)
Asset Accumulation And Family Size (1980) (14)
Local Labor Markets and Cyclic Components in Demand for College Trained Manpower (1978) (14)
The New Immigrant Survey in the U.S.: The Experience over Time (2003) (14)
Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany (2013) (14)
The Earnings of US immigrants (2003) (13)
Explanations for Education Gradients in Depression (2011) (13)
Preparing for Population Aging in Asia: Strengthening the Infrastructure for Science and Policy (2012) (13)
The Citizenship Advantage in Psychological Well-being: An Examination of the Hukou System in China. (2021) (13)
The effect of health promotion on diagnosis and management of diabetes (2011) (12)
Spousal Health Effects - the Role of Selection (2013) (12)
Race and Human Capital: Reply (1986) (12)
Regional Disparities in Adult Height, Educational Attainment and Gender Difference in Late- Life Cognition: Findings from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI). (2014) (12)
Migration in Retrospect: Remembrances of Things Past (1997) (12)
On the Labor-Supply Effects of Age-Related Income Maintenance Programs (2004) (12)
HIspanics and the American Dream: An Analysis of Hispanic Male Labor Market Wages 1940-1980 (2004) (11)
The Improving Economic Status of Black Americans (1978) (11)
Economic Shocks, Early Life Circumstances and Later Life Outcomes: Introduction (2015) (11)
Migration in retrospect: differences between men and women. (1992) (11)
Health, Disability and Mortality Differences at Older Ages between the US and England (2016) (11)
Black/White Male Earnings and Employment: 1960-70 (2004) (11)
Race and Poverty: A Forty-Year Record (1987) (11)
Race Differences in Earnings: A Survey and New Evidence (2004) (10)
Labor Market Status and Transitions During the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences (2007) (10)
Introduction to the JHR’s Special Issue on Cross-National Comparative Research Using Panel Surveys (2003) (10)
Barriers to Immigrant Use of Financial Services: The Role of Language Skills, U.S. Experience, and Return Migration Expectations (2012) (9)
Black/White Male Earnings and Employment (1975) (9)
Assets and Labor Supply (2004) (9)
ASSETS, SAVINGS AND LABOR SUPPLY (1977) (8)
Models and Realities: The Consequences of Immigration@@@The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (1999) (8)
The Changing Skills of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants (1998) (8)
Why do some Irish drink so much? Family, historical and regional effects on students’ alcohol consumption and subjective normative thresholds (2011) (8)
Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the United States and the United Kingdom: Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference? (2019) (8)
Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies (2010) (8)
Aging in Asia (2012) (7)
The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (1998) (7)
Vignettes and Self Reported Work Disability (2005) (7)
Endpoints in diabetes cardiovascular outcome trials (2018) (7)
Race and Ethnicity in the Labor Market: Trends over the Short and Long Run (2004) (6)
Fertility, gender preference, the Birth Planning Policy and life satisfaction in China (2018) (6)
Immigrants and Their Schooling (2006) (6)
6: Family, Schooling, Religiosity, and Mobility among New Legal Immigrants to the United States: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot1 (2000) (6)
ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF DATA ON INCOME: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SURVEY METHODOLOGY (2000) (6)
The Long-Term Economic Impact of Criminalization in American Childhoods (2018) (5)
Data Confidentiality: A Researcher's Perspective (2004) (5)
The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America (2012) (5)
Barriers to Immigrant Use of Financial Services (2012) (5)
Do panel surveys really make people sick? A commentary on Wilson and Howell (60:11, 2005, 2623-2627). (2007) (5)
What They Say and What They Do (2018) (5)
Children Among the Poor (1989) (5)
The Convergence to Racial Equality in Women's Wages (2004) (5)
Exporting Poor Health (2011) (4)
Financial Education Interventions Targeting Immigrant Populations: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in the United States (2014) (4)
Free GP care and psychological health: Quasi-experimental evidence from Ireland. (2020) (4)
International differences in interspousal health correlations. (2021) (4)
Why do some Irish drink so much (2008) (4)
Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years (2007) (4)
Supplemental income program design: A cluster-randomized controlled trial to examine the health and wellbeing effects on older adults by gender, duration, and payment frequency. (2020) (4)
Fertility behaviors in South Korea and their association with ultrasound prenatal sex screening (2017) (4)
Can patient self-management explain the health gradient? Goldman and Smith (2002) revisited: a response to Maitra. (2010) (4)
Unbalanced Sex Ratios in Germany Caused by World War II and Their Effect on Fertility: A Life Cycle Perspective (2018) (3)
The HRS Around the World Surveys (2016) (3)
Spousal Health Effects (2014) (3)
The Relationship Between the Socioeconomic Status and Health of the Elderly (1998) (3)
Racial Discrimination: A Human Capital Perspective (2004) (3)
International Comparisons in Health Economics (2011) (3)
New and Emerging Data Initiatives (2012) (2)
Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration (2015) (2)
A Life Cycle Family Model (1973) (2)
Comparison of Health Status Between the United States and England—Reply (2006) (2)
Pension Annuitization and Social Security Claiming (2004) (2)
Comment on 'Recent Trends in the Size Distribution of Wealth' (2004) (2)
Sibling gender composition’s effect on education: evidence from China (2016) (2)
Who Gets Ahead: A Review Article (1981) (2)
Effects of Social Activities on Cognitive Functions (2012) (2)
Measurement of Late-Life Income and Wealth (2002) (2)
Women, Mothers, and Work (2004) (1)
The Public Spends Little to Provide Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants (2006) (1)
Chapter 4. Assets And Labor Supply (1980) (1)
The impact of demographic change on U. S. labor markets: discussion (2001) (1)
Economic Growth, Labor Markets, and Consumption (2012) (1)
Background Notes for a Labor Economist's Prospective on Age Discrimination (2004) (1)
The Value of Education to Health (2018) (1)
Narrowing the Wage Gap Between Blacks and Whites... A Look at Forty Years of Economic Progress... (1986) (1)
Release Distribution Unlimited RAND Marriage , Assets , and Savings (1)
Family Decisionmaking Over the Life Cycle: Some Implications for Estimating the Effects of Income Maintenance Programs. (1973) (1)
Travellers’ Health: How To Stay Healthy Abroad, 2nd edition (1989) (1)
Comment on "Is the U.S. Population Behaving Healthier?" (2009) (0)
EFFECT OF HUKOU MOBILITY ON DEPRESSION IN MID- AND LATER LIFE IN URBAN CHINA (2019) (0)
Tilburg University International Comparisons of Work Disability (2004) (0)
Health ' Advantage ' Of Recent Mexican Immigrants Undiagnosed Disease , Especially Diabetes , Casts Doubt On Some Of Reported (2012) (0)
Sibling Gender Composition's Effect on Education (2017) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WEALTH PORTFOLIOS IN THE UK AND THE US (2001) (0)
The 15th Annual RAND Summer Institute Video (2009) (0)
New Directions in Socioeconomic Research on Aging (2004) (0)
A Critique of Tax Based Cost/Benefit Ratios. The Rand Paper Series. (1975) (0)
Legal Status And Health Insurance Among Immigrants It is one's education, income, and place of employment that matter, not one's place of birth. (2005) (0)
Poverty Dynamics and Parental Mental Health (2017) (0)
Female Labor Supply: Theory and Estimation -- Introduction (2005) (0)
ABSTRACT Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England * (2011) (0)
Biographical Sketches of Contributors (2012) (0)
Life satisfaction in China and consumption and income inequalities (2017) (0)
FIGURE 2-5, Percentage of labor force participation among men aged 65 and older, 1980–2008 (2012) (0)
Middle-aged English healthier than their American counterparts (2006) (0)
Reported Disability and Reference Groups (2014) (0)
Family Roles and Responsibilities (2012) (0)
Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries ? (2014) (0)
The Long-Term Economic Impact of Criminalization in AmericanChildhoods (2019) (0)
Book Review:Public Assistance and Work Effort: The Labor Supply of Low-Income Female Heads of Household. Robert George Williams (1976) (0)
Learning from International Differences (2011) (0)
Comment on "Measuring Disease Prevalence in Surveys: A Comparison of Diabetes Self-Reports, Biomarkers, and Linked Insurance Claims" (2015) (0)
Tilburg University Unbalanced Sex Ratios in Germany Caused by World War II and their Effect on Fertility (2018) (0)
THE. MPROVING,KONOMIC STATUS OF BLACK AMERICANS (2011) (0)
NO PUB DATE GRANT '-NOTE AVAILABLE FROM The End Corporation , Publications Lepartment , 1700 (2011) (0)
The Acceleration in Women's Wages (2004) (0)
Immigrants use disproportionately less medical care than their representation in the U.S. population would indicate. (2006) (0)
Evaluating Health Care Reform Using the Healt and Retirement Survey: A Case Study of the Health Security Act of 1993 (1994) (0)
Taxpayer effects of immigration (2014) (0)
Fertility, gender preference, the Birth Planning Policy and life satisfaction in China (2018) (0)
Comments on "Measuring disease prevalence in surveys: A comparison of diabetes self-reports, (2015) (0)
taxpayer effects of immigration Reliable estimates of taxpayer effects are essential for complete economic analyses of the costs and benefits of immigration (2014) (0)
Free GP care and mental health (2020) (0)
Chapter 4 Immigrants and Their Schooling (2006) (0)
Community Effects on Elderly Health (2013) (0)
4036 ReConstructing Childhood Health Histories (2009) (0)
Work Disability , Work Justification Bias in Europe and the US (2009) (0)
JECH108415 259..264 (0)
Asset Accumulation and Family Size. A Rand Note. (1979) (0)
The Impact of Regulation and Financial Incentives on Cost-of-Illness (1994) (0)
Do Increment-Decrement Worklife Models Really Work? (2004) (0)
THE CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE IMMIGRATION STUDIES Immigrants and Their Schooling (2004) (0)
Tilburg University Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain (2017) (0)
Comment on "What's Past is Prologue: The Impact of Early Life Health and Circumstance on Health in Old Age" (2010) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE SES HEALTH GRADIENT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC James Banks (2006) (0)
COMMITTEE ON POPULATION 2011 (2012) (0)
Adult Children's Education and Older Parents' Chronic Illnesses in Aging China. (2022) (0)
COGNITIVE CHANGE AND DRIVING BEHAVIOR AMONG OLDER DRIVERS (2017) (0)
Comment on "Aging, Religion, and Health" (2011) (0)
TABLE 1-1, Papers Organized by Subject Area (2012) (0)
and cyclic components in demand (2016) (0)