The "Financial Well-being over the Life Course" small grants competition was supported by a grant to PSID from NIA.
An expert review committee selected 5 of the 26 submissions for an award on the basis of thematic relevance, significance, innovation,
feasibility, strength of research design, and likelihood of leading to a larger externally funded research project.
The awardees, their institutions, and their projects are as follows:
| Michael Donihue, Department of Economics, Colby College |
| "The Relative Importance of Housing Wealth in the Retirement Saving Decision" |
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| Irina Grafova, School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey |
| "Financial Well-being and Smoking Over the Life Course" |
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| E. Brooke Harrington, Max Planck Institute |
| "Inheritance as a Component of Retirement Wealth" |
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| James MacGee & Jie Zhou, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario |
| "Private Pensions, Retirement Wealth and Lifetime Earnings" |
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| Mark R. Rank, George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University |
| Thomas A. Hirschl, Department of Developmental Sociology, Cornell University |
| "Estimating the Life Course Dynamics of Asset Poverty." |