Retirement and Disability Research Center
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security Retirement and Disability Research Center is an applied research program which develops evidence that can assist policymakers, the public, and the media in understanding issues in Social Security, retirement, and disability policy, especially related to economically vulnerable populations. The CFS RDRC incorporates diversity of viewpoints and disciplines, develops diverse emerging scholars and generates research findings that are used in policy and practice.
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JSIT21-05: Medicaid Receipt and Health Outcomes in Youth with Sickle Cell Disease Authors
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Youth diagnosed with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at risk for morbidity, mortality, and decreased quality of life. The receipt of Medicaid among youth diagnosed with a chronic illness is associated with favoring outcomes, ... -
JSIT21-04: The Impact of Medicaid Enrollment Expansion on the Health Well-being of Social Security Beneficiaries
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Medicaid is a necessary source of supplemental healthcare coverage for Social Security beneficiaries, however, there are various regulations in place regarding eligibility to receive Medicaid for these low-income people ... -
JSIT21-03: SSI Policy and Homeownership: Patterns Across Categories of Disability and Race
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)For low- and middle-income households, homeownership is a pathway to building wealth and to ensuring stable and secure housing. People with disabilities, low-income households, and Black families all experience substantially ... -
JSIT21-02: Income Volatility and Social Security: Understanding Farm Losses and their Implications
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Farm and ranch operators in the United States are an economically vulnerable group. Many family-owned farms without younger family members interested in farming face difficult retirement decisions. In addition, unlike other ... -
JSIT21-01: The Effect of the SSI Student Earned Income Exclusion on Education and Labor Supply
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)The SSI program pays about $50 billion per year to 8.7 million low-income, disabled or aged Americans, but it requires recipients to earn less than $1,673 per month to remain eligible. This income threshold can be particularly ... -
WI21-Q1: Access to a Local Public Housing Authority Office and SSI Participation
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)This project seeks to understand what types of counties have a brick-and-mortar local Public Housing Authority (PHA). Since there are more people eligible for housing assistance than there are benefits available, allocations ... -
WI21-11: Consequences and Response to Identity Theft Victimization among Older Americans
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Society’s growing reliance on technology to transfer private information has created more opportunities for identity thieves to access personal data. Research on identity theft, specifically among older adults, is virtually ... -
WI21-10: Older Adult Out-of-Pocket Pharmaceutical Spending After Home Mortgage Payoff
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Older adult homeowners increasingly carry mortgage debt into retirement. The share of homeowners aged 65 and older with outstanding mortgages doubled between 1989 and 2016, while the outstanding loan-to-value ratio tripled ... -
WI21-08: Employment Shocks, Unemployment Insurance, and Caregiving
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Working Americans are increasingly taking on various caregiving roles for family members. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of job loss and income supports on the labor supply, economic well-being, and caregiving ... -
WI21-07: Economic Security in Retirement: How Does Borrowing from Home Equity After a Health Shock Affect Health Outcomes?
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)The onset of a costly disease in retirement can present a significant threat to economic security. Older adults often self-insure against these risks by accumulating wealth, including home equity. For many older adults, ... -
WI21-05: The Effects of Expanding Access to Mental Health Services on SS(D)I Applications and Awards
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)The growing number of individuals suffering from a serious mental illness underscores the important role of interventions such as treatments, policies, and programs to support those in need. Such support efforts often ... -
WI21-04: The Changing Task Content of Jobs for Older Workers in the United States
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)With data on occupational task content from O*NET and ORS and survey data from the American Community Survey (ACS) and 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), we document how the physical, cognitive, routine, ... -
WI21-03: Assessing Vulnerability to Social Security Scams
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Over the last few years, Social Security scams have become one of the most common forms of government imposter fraud. These scams cost innocent people in the United States millions of dollars each year and undercut the ... -
WI21-02: Retirement in the Context of Intergenerational Transfers
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)The literature examining the motivation for, and consequences of, retirement has tended to focus primarily on retirees and their spouses. However, since the decision to retire is deeply rooted in extended family ... -
WI21-01: Using SSDI Conversations in Online Forums to Improve Communication and Outreach
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Text analysis of data collected from online forum conversations, a form of user-generated content (UGC), reveals that Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and recipients, the “customers,” share concerns ... -
IRP20-01: Criminal Justice Involvement and Well-Being in Old Age
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)This paper uses data from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records Systems linked with survey and administrative data sources from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide the first evidence on the looming retirement crisis ... -
WI20-Q2: Economic Security of Older Adults during the COVID-19 Crisis: Early Data to Inform Research and Policy
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)This study documents the credit outcomes of older adults immediately before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. Using credit data to track indicators of financial distress, this study shows that on ... -
WI20-Q1: Determinants of the Use of Supplemental Security Income by American Indian and Alaska Natives
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN) participate in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program at about twice the rate of the general population. Despite experiencing some of the worst poverty and mortality rates ... -
JSIT20-05: The Unintended Effect of Medicaid Aging Waivers on Informal Care giving
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Medicaid aging waivers incentivize older adults who need long-term care to stay at home rather than move into a nursing facility. However, this policy may inadvertently shift care burdens onto informal caregivers. Using ... -
JSIT20-04: The Effect of Insurance Expansion on SSI Participation: Evidence from the ACA
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Before states expanded their Medicaid programs, low-income adults without dependent children were typically only eligible for Medicaid insurance coverage through the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI) due to a ...
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