MHAS 2003 Data and 2003 Imputations are now available.

The Tracker File is now available.

Sponsors:

National Institute of Aging
http://www.nia.nih.gov/

Other Relevant Data:

Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/

Research Projects at the Center for
Demography of Health and aging (CDHA)
at the Univ. of Wisconsin
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/projects.html

Centers on the Demography of Aging,
established by the National Institute on Aging (NIA)
http://agingmeta.psc.isr.umich.edu/

Puerto Rican Study of Health and Aging
http://prehco.rcm.upr.edu/index.html

SABE, Health Well-being and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/sabe/

National Institute on Aging (Demography and Economics of Aging)
http://www.nia.nih.gov/research/extramural/behavior/

English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA)
http://www.ifs.org.uk/elsa/index.htm

The Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
http://www.share-project.org/

The National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics in Mexico (INEGI)
http://www.inegi.gob.mx/difusion/ingles/portadai.html

Population Studies Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania
http://www.pop.upenn.edu/

Maryland Population Research Center (MPRC)
http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/

Population Health Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin
http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/

Useful References:

"The Gender Impact of Pension Reform: A Cross-Country Analysis" by Estelle James, Alejandra Cox Edwards & Rebeca Wong
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=458303

“Los desafíos de las afores mexicanas” (The Challenges of Mexican Assessments) Interview with José Piñera, El Economista (newspaper), September 25, 1998 (available in Spanish)
http://www.elcato.org/desafio_afores.htm

Tapen Sinha's monograph on pension system reform in Mexico, Society of Actuaries
http://www.soa.org/bookstore/mono.html#retirement
http://www.soa.org/library/monographs/retirement_systems/m-rs02-1/
http://www.actuaries.org/members/en/documents/bulletins/36/7_SOA.pdf

“Reforma Previsional en México” (Welfare Reform in Mexico) by Ian Vásquez, Director of the Global Economic Liberty Project at the Cato Institute, The Wall Street Journal , June 27, 1997 (available in Spanish).
http://www.pensionreform.org/articles/mexico_esp.html

"In Praise and Criticism of Mexico's Pension Reform" by L. Jacobo Rodríguez, Cato Institute
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-340es.html

“Reforma a las Pensiones: El Legado Incompleto de Zedillo” (Pension Reform: The Incomplete Legacy of Zedillo) by L. Jacobo Rodríguez, The Cato Institute, July 27, 1999 (available in Spanish).
http://www.elcato.org/legzed_rodriguez.htm

" Extensive Mexico Pension Coverage", The Actuary, November 2000 issue
http://www.soa.org/library/actuary/2000-09/ACT0011.pdf

“Hacia la Homogeneidad de los Sistemas de Jubilación” (Toward the Homogeneity of Retirement Systems) by Héctor Guillén Romo, The Inter-American Foundation for the Development and Formation of the Labor Pension Fund, January 2000 (available in Spanish).
http://www.finteramericana.org/sisprevi/documentos/

"Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s" by David M. Cutler, Felicia Knaul, Rafael Lozano, Oscar Mendez & Beatriz Zurita
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W7746

Various time series Economic Data from Mexico:
" A Decade Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s" by Raphael Bergoeing, Patrick J. Kehoe, Timothy J. Kehoe, and Raimundo Soto.
http://www.econ.umn.edu/%7Etkehoe/papers/mexico-chile.pdf
Data Description & Data (MS Excel).