Program interaction

Social Security’s Role in Economic Security: Evidence and Insight from an Analysis of Multiprogram Participation

• October 25, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Program interaction, Social Security

We estimate individual participation in 18 separate spending programs and construct measures of nonparticipation and density of participation (which we call multiprogram participation) by age, race, ethnicity, and gender groups. We then use regression analysis to predict non- and multiprogram…

Workplace Injuries and Receipt of Benefits from Workers Compensation and SSDI*

• April 13, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Disability insurance, Health and Retirement Study, Program interaction, Social Security

We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and matched Social Security Administration (SSA) data to study two questions. First, we examine evidence on whether workers who suffer permanently disabling injuries covered by workers’ compensation (WC) subsequently end…

Underfunded Public Sector Pension Plans, Social Security Participation, and the Retirement Decisions of Public Employees

• April 13, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• pensions, Program interaction, Social Security

Workplace Injuries and Receipt of Benefits from Workers Compensation and SSDI*

• December 21, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Disability insurance, Program interaction

We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and matched Social Security Administration (SSA) data to study two questions. First, we examine evidence on whether workers who suffer permanently disabling injuries covered by workers’ compensation (WC) subsequently end…

2018 Key Findings

• July 15, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Administrative data link, Affordable Care Act, Behavioral economics, benefit claiming, Cognition, Financial well-being, Health and Retirement Study, Health reform, International, Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Life-cycle model, Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortality trends, OASDI trust funds, Older workers, Payroll taxes, pensions, Program interaction, retirement savings, Second career, Social Security, Social Security program communications, Social Security reform, Social Security spousal benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Totalization, Veterans

On the Distribution and Dynamics of Medical Expenditure among the Elderly

• November 29, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Health, pensions, Program interaction, retirement savings

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), we estimate the stochastic process for total medical spending and its components.  By focusing on dynamics, we consider not only the risk of catastrophic…

A Meta-Analysis of the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate

• September 20, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Program interaction

2017 Key Findings

• August 29, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Affordable Care Act, Financial well-being, Health, Life-cycle model, Older workers, Program interaction, retirement savings, Social Security reform, Social Security spousal benefits, Veterans

A Meta-Analysis of the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate

• August 28, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Program interaction

This project explores the causes behind the recent decline in the Labor Force Participation (LFP) rate. The analysis examines the evolution of the LFP rate for different demographic groups to gauge the effect of demographic changes. An integral part of…

Exploring the Social Security Benefit Implications of Same-Sex Marriage

• June 14, 2018
• OASDI trust funds, Program interaction, Social Security spousal benefits

Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the United States on June 26, 2015. Federal legalization of same-sex marriage expands the pool of individuals potentially eligible for spousal Social Security benefits to the estimated 4 percent of the population that is…