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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 ...