Promoting research on retirement, disability, and Social Security policy

Recent retirement & disability research publications

How Redistributive Are Public Health Care Schemes? Evidence from Medicare and Medicaid in Old Age
Karolos Arapakis, Eric French, John Bailey Jones, Jeremy McCauley
Explanations for the Decline in Spending at Older Ages
Susann Rohwedder, Michael Hurd, Péter Hudomiet
Social Security Coverage Around the World: The Case of China, India, and Mexico (2021)
Francisco Perez-Arce, María Prados, Erik Meijer, Jinkook Lee
The Role of Physical Job Demands and the Physical Work Environment in Retirement Outcomes
Italo Lopez Garcia, Kathleen J. Mullen, Jeffrey Wenger
On the Distribution and Dynamics of Medical Expenditure Among the Elderly
Karolos Arapakis, Eric French, John Bailey Jones, Jeremy McCauley
The Relationship Between Adverse Experiences Over the Life Course and Early Retirement Due to Disability
Amanda Sonnega, Brooke Helppie McFall
Mixed-methods Analysis of Consumer Fraud Reports of the Social Security Administration Impostor Scam
Marguerite DeLiema, Paul Witt
The Lifetime Risk of Spousal Nursing Home Use and its Economic Impact on the Community-dwelling Spouse
Péter Hudomiet, Michael Hurd, Susann Rohwedder
Estimating the Impact of Missing Totalization Agreements
Ananth Seshadri, Junjie Guo
Expansion of the Totalization Program using Simplified Agreements to Eliminate Dual Taxation
María Prados, Dongwook Kim
Worker Functional Abilities, Occupational Requirements, and Job Accommodations: A Close Look at Three Occupations
Megan Henly, Debra Brucker, Andrew J. Houtenville
Contextual and Social Predictors of Scam Susceptibility and Fraud Victimization
Aparajita Sur, Marguerite DeLiema, Ethan Brown
Mixed-methods Study to Understand Use of the my Social Security Online Platform
Lila Rabinovich, Francisco Perez-Arce
Heterogeneity in Household Spending and Well-being around Retirement
Patrick Moran, Martin O’Connell, Cormac O’Dea, Francesca Parodi
The Early Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Americans’ Economic Security
Marco Angrisani, Jeremy Burke, Arie Kapteyn

Also of interest

Recent projects employ mixed-method research

MRDRC investigators have use mixed-methods to explore self-employment, SSA-imposter fraud, and more. Read about it in the winter newsletter.

RDRC meeting links now available

For those who missed or who would like to review the 24^th Annual Retirement and Disability Research Consortium, program slides, booklet, and videos of the two half-day programs are available on the NBER event page. The program featured the latest SSA-funded research on benefit receipt, COVID-19 impacts, retirement and disability disparities and trends, and more, presented by researchers from MRDRC, National Bureau of Economic Research, Boston College, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Financial Security Research Symposium webcast available

Co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Social Security Administration, this event featured four panels of academic, nonprofit, and governmental experts addressing issues surrounding financial preparedness and retirement security.

If you missed the symposium, the webcast is now available. The schedule is also available.