Browsing RDRC FY2020 Research Projects by Issue Date
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WI20-03: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Intergenerational Economic Mobility
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Access to economic opportunity in the United States is not uniform. In addition to heterogeneous mobility patterns by race/ethnicity and geography, new research suggests children whose parent(s) have work-limiting health ... -
GRMF20-02: Filling in the Gap: The Role of Employer-provided DI
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)The risk of disability for workers is not trivial. While many workers rely on public disability programs such as the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) to protect them against disability risk, these programs do ... -
WI20-06: Trends in Conversations about SSDI in Online Forums
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Applications to DI have declined in recent years but extant research shed little light on what has been driving these trends. Research surveys and interviews based on self-report data may not reveal more personal situations ... -
WI20-02: Firm Investment, Labor Supply, and the Design of Social Insurance: Evidence from Accommodations for Workplace Disability
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Long-term care represents a significant cost to older adults in the US, and nursing home use is an important part of long-term care. It is therefore important to understand how older adults make nursing home-related ... -
WI20-12: Caregiving and Labor Force Participation: New Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)A large share of the growing demand for care is met informally by relatives. Many family caregivers also work, and the empirical evidence suggests that burden of caregiving interferes with employment. Although it is ... -
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 ... -
JSIT20-02: Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Adult Children’s Wealth Accumulation
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Understanding current and future retirees’ financial security requires considering that decision-making and subsequent consequences may extend beyond them to their significant others (or their adult children). Children ... -
Postdoc20-01: High School Coursework and Labor Force Attachment at Midlife
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Work during the preretirement years is a vital component of long-term wellbeing, especially with life expectancy increasing and the burden of saving for retirement shifting heavily toward workers. Employment experiences ... -
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-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 ... -
Postdoc20-02: Economic Impact of State Paid Family Leave Policies on Caregivers with Older Disabled Adults
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)This study examines the impact of the state paid family leave mandates on working-age individuals residing with older and/or disabled adults. When facing the dual demands of employment and taking care of family members ... -
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 ... -
JSIT20-01: Direct and Spillover Effects of Child Supplemental Security Income
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Children having a sibling with a disability are often disadvantaged as parents need to divert a high proportion of their resources, time, and energy on the child with a disability in the family (Abrams, 2009). Prior research ... -
GRMF20-01: Continuous Convergence of Cumulative (Dis)advantage? U.S. Immigrants' Economic Integration in Later Life
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)People migrate at various ages and, depending on their age at migration, have different life opportunities as well as needs for public assistance. Immigrants who arrive in the U.S. under the age of 18 are commonly sorted ... -
JSIT20-03: Pension Plan Types and Social Security Knowledge: New Survey Evidence
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Knowledge of the Social Security (SS) Old-Age and Survivors Insurance program affects people’s work, consumption, and savings decisions before retirement and in turn impacts financial well-being in retirement. Despite ... -
WI20-11: Housing Wealth and Economic Security in Retirement: Does Borrowing from Home Equity Increase Adherence to Prescription Drugs?
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)The primary source of wealth for many older adults, particularly for those with lower incomes who rely entirely on Social Security for their incomes, is equity in the home. This project investigates the use of housing ... -
WI20-10: Home Ownership and Housing Debt in Retirement: Financial Asset for Consumption Smoothing or Albatross Around the Neck of Retirees?
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)For many retirees, the home is their most valuable asset. A house is both used as an investment and for consumption. If a home is paid for at the time when a person retires, they no longer have to service a mortgage or pay ... -
WI20-07: Local Public Housing Authorities’ Housing Choice Voucher Policies Can Affect SSI Participation
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) both play an important role in the assistance offered to low-income households with disabilities, but the interaction of these programs is largely ... -
WI20-08: Economic Opportunity, Drug Overdose Mortality, and Disability
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Recent work has demonstrated rising drug overdose mortality following industrial decline due to exposure to foreign trade. Despite experiencing similar declines in manufacturing-sector opportunities, some areas of the ... -
WI20-04: Lost and Found: Claiming Behavior in Abandoned Retirement Accounts
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)Many tax-advantaged retirement accounts require individuals to start taking distributions by a certain age (typically 70.5), yet some individuals fail to do so. When this occurs, the unclaimed accounts are often handed ...