Disparities

Barriers and Communications Preferences of Rural Populations: A Scoping Review

• September 13, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Social Security program communications

Enrollment in federal and state government programs is substantially lower for some eligible demographic subpopulations, particularly persons living in rural areas. Barriers faced when seeking program benefits may, in part, explain such differences in enrollment. The purpose of this paper…

Disparities in Social Security Knowledge and the Role of Social Capital

• May 25, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Social Security program communications

In this paper, we develop a new survey that seeks to better understand how differences in information sources (both formal and informal) across racial and ethnic groups contribute to knowledge and planning for retirement. We consider several scenarios where people…

How Does Social Security Affect the Racial Wealth Gap?

• May 25, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Financial well-being, Social Security

The large and persistent gap by race in U.S. household wealth is a well-established empirical fact, though the causal mechanisms for wealth differentials are still a subject of much debate. Previous research on wealth inequality has shown that expanding the…

Key findings on ethnic, gender, and racial disparities

• May 3, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• COVID-19, Demographic trends, Disability, Disparities, Financial well-being, Health, Older workers

Only Spot a Few Blacks the Higher I Go: Occupational Segregation and the COVID-19 Pandemic

• April 9, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• COVID-19, Disparities, Labor force participation

This project will examine whether there exists a link between occupational segregation by race and labor market outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will estimate the extent to which workers who were employed in occupations with higher concentrations of Black…

Barriers and Communications Preferences of Rural Populations: A Scoping Review

• April 9, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• benefit claiming, Disparities, Social Security, Social Security program communications, Survivor benefit

This scoping review of the literature on communications and service-related barriers faced by individuals living in rural areas when seeking government benefits will examine the current research on this topic and identify differences by sociodemographic groups within rural populations.

RAND HRS Poverty Measures for HRS 1994

• April 9, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Financial well-being, Health and Retirement Study, poverty

The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is the primary data set in the U.S. for the study of the well-being of the older population. A common indicator of material hardship used in research and in the administration of various government…

Work and Retirement of Older Black and Hispanic Adults

• February 28, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Financial well-being, Health, Older workers, Retirement

The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Employment of Older Workers: Impacts by Gender, Country, and Race

• February 28, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Health, Health and Retirement Study, International

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Knowledge about Social Security Programs

• February 28, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Financial well-being, Social Security program communications