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Medical Expenditure Measures In The Health And Retirement Study, Dana Goldman, Julie Zissimopoulos, Yang Lu
Medical Expenditure Measures In The Health And Retirement Study, Dana Goldman, Julie Zissimopoulos, Yang Lu
Yang Lu
This paper reviews out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditure measures collected in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Medical expenditures are an important cost of poor health. Medical expenditure measures are important for understanding retirement decisions, financial preparation for retirement, and predicting the consequences of health care reform, particularly Medicare reform. Despite the comprehensiveness of the HRS, there are always limitations to what can be learned from population interviews. To assess the quality of current HRS measures of OOP spending, we compare various measures of OOP spending across survey waves to the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey …
Multiple Team Membership: A Theoretical Model Of Its Effects On Productivity And Learning For Individuals And Teams, Michael Boyer O'Leary, Mark Mortensen, Anita Woolley
Multiple Team Membership: A Theoretical Model Of Its Effects On Productivity And Learning For Individuals And Teams, Michael Boyer O'Leary, Mark Mortensen, Anita Woolley
Anita Williams Woolley
Organizations use multiple team membership to enhance individual and team productivity and learning, but this structure creates competing pressures on attention and information, which make it difficult to increase both productivity and learning. Our model describes how the number and variety of multiple team memberships drive different mechanisms, yielding distinct effects. We show how carefully balancing the number and variety can enhance both productivity and learning