Promoting research on retirement, disability, and Social Security policy

Recent publications

The Changing Nature of Work
Italo Lopez Garcia, Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen
Nursing Homes in Equilibrium: Implications for Long-term Care Policies
Tatyana Koreshkova, Minjoon Lee
Saving Regret: Self-assessed Life-cycle Saving Behavior in the U.S. and Singapore
Axel Börsch-Supan, Michael Hurd, Susann Rohwedder
The Impact of Growing Health and Mortality Inequalities on Lifetime Social Security Payouts
Péter Hudomiet, Michael Hurd, Susann Rohwedder
Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Aging, and Debt Accumulation
Marco Angrisani, Jeremy Burke, Arie Kapteyn
A Framework for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Totalization Agreements
Erik Meijer, Francisco Perez-Arce, Maria Prados
The Risk of High Out-of-Pocket Health Spending among Older Americans
Helen Levy
Estimating the Macroeconomic Effects of Each Totalization Agreement
Ananth Seshadri, Junjie Guo
Macroeconomic Effects of Social Security Totalization Agreements
Maria Prados, Erik Meijer, Francisco Perez-Arce
Setting Expectations for Claimant Ability to Work: Investigating the Occupational Requirements and Functional Capacity of Workers with Early Onset Health Conditions
Andrew J. Houtenville, Deniz Ozabaci
Subjective Expectations, Social Security Benefits, and the Optimal Path to Retirement
Maria Prados, Arie Kapteyn
Recent Trends in Disability and the Implications for Use of Disability Insurance
Timothy Waidmann, HwaJung Choi, Robert Schoeni, John Bound
Recent Trends in Disability and the Implications for Use of Disability Insurance
Timothy Waidmann, HwaJung Choi, Robert Schoeni, John Bound
Subjective Expectations, Social Security Benefits, and the Optimal Path to Retirement
Maria Prados, Arie Kapteyn
Setting Expectations for Claimant Ability to Work: Investigating the Occupational Requirements and Functional Capacity of Workers with Early Onset Health Conditions
Andrew J. Houtenville, Deniz Ozabaci

Also of interest

Junior scholars & PhD candidates: Applications open for Sandell Grant and Dissertation Fellowship programs

Funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration, the annual Sandell Grant offers up to three junior scholars up to $45,000 in grants to pursue research projects in, for example, retirement income, older workers, population disability incidence, or retirement well-being.

Also funded by SSA, the Fellowship Program awards up to three $28,000 fellowships to doctoral candidates focusing on retirement issues and enrolled in an accredited U.S. program.

The programs are administered by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. For more information on these opportunities and to apply, visit the Sandell page or the fellowship program page.

Deadline for both programs is January 31, 2021.

Fall newsletter covers MRDRC highlights at the annual meeting

Four MRDRC projects were presented at the Annual Consortium Meeting. Read about them in our fall newsletter.

Miss the RDRC meeting? It’s online

If you were unable to attend this year’s virtual meeting or you would like to view some of the presentations again, videos, the meeting booklet, and slides are available on the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College’s website.

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.