Promoting research on retirement, disability, and Social Security policy

Recent publications

Is the Affordable Care Act Affecting Retirement Yet?
Helen Levy, Thomas Buchmueller, Sayeh Nikpay
Feasibility and Reliability of Automated Coding of Occupation in the Health and Retirement Study
Brooke Helppie McFall, Amanda Sonnega
How Well Can Medicare Records Identify Seniors with Cognitive Impairment Needing Assistance with Financial Management?
David Weir, Kenneth Langa
Relative Sizes of Age Cohorts and Labor Force Participation of Older Workers
David Neumark, Maysen Yen
Local Economic Hardship and Its Role in Life Expectancy Trends
John Bound, Arline Geronimus, Timothy Waidmann, Javier Rodriguez
Addition to the RAND HRS Longitudinal Files: IRA Withdrawals in the HRS, 2000 to 2014
Michael Hurd, Erik Meijer, Philip Pantoja, Susann Rohwedder
Assessing Economic Resources in Retirement: The Role of Irregular Withdrawals from Tax-Advantaged Retirement Accounts
Michael Hurd, Susann Rohwedder
Addressing Social Security’s Solvency While Promoting High Labor Force Participation
John Laitner
The Decline in the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate
Francisco Perez-Arce, Maria Prados, Tarra Kohli
Social Security Household Benefits: Measuring Program Knowledge
Katherine Carman, Angela Hung
Using Consequence Messaging to Improve Understanding of Social Security
Anya Samek, Arie Kapteyn, Andre Gray
SeaTE: Subjective ex ante Treatment Effect of Health on Retirement
Pamela Giustinelli, Matthew Shapiro
A Meta-Analysis of the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate
Ananth Seshadri
Shocks and Transitions from Career Jobs to Bridge Jobs and Retirement: A New Approach
John Ameriks, Joseph Briggs, Andrew Caplin, Minjoon Lee, Matthew Shapiro, Christopher Tonetti
Intergenerational Altruism and Transfers of Time and Money: A Life-cycle Perspective
Uta Bolt, Eric French, Jamie Hentall Maccuish, Cormac O'Dea

Also of interest

Winter newsletter covers name change, key findings

Learn about the MRDRC’s new scope, details on summer workshop funding, 2018 key findings, and what MRDRC researchers are doing in the latest newsletter: bit.ly/2019MRDRCwinterNews

MRDRC is currently accepting funding applications for summer data workshops in Ann Arbor

Through its cooperative agreement with the Social Security Administration, the MRDRC will be offering funding for early career researchers, generally graduate to junior-faculty level to attend the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) Summer Workshop and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Data User Workshop. For more information and a link to the application, check the program page.

Funding applications are due April 8, 2019.

MRDRC announces funded 2019 projects

The Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center awards yearlong research grants to researchers across the nation, the United Kingdom, Asia, and Europe. Visit MRDRC’s Project Page for a list of funded 2019 research, which ranges from investigations of disability insurance use to public pension design.

To align with its new name, the MRDRC has updated its logos, website url, and email address. Email addresses for center staff remain the same, and the MRRC url and email address will redirect to their new equivalents.

New url: https://mrdrc.isr.umich.edu/

New email address: mrdrcumich@umich.edu

Materials from the 2018 RRC Meeting available

Slides and papers from this year’s Retirement Research Consortium Meeting are posted.

View the agenda and materials here: http://bit.ly/2018RRCmaterials

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 scheduleis also available.