Veterans

Education and Return to Work Among Veterans

• November 4, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Veterans

We will use data from Veteran’s return to work after disability onset to describe how age and education affect work. This will give SSA information that could improve the disability determination process (help make more accurate determinations using a vocational…

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

Predicting Expected Medical Recovery Using Return to Work Among Veterans

• November 29, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Disability insurance, Supplemental Security Income, Veterans

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and nonelderly Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries face strong incentives not to work because their benefits could be sharply reduced. Most beneficiaries of Veterans Affairs (VA) Disability Compensation (DC) face no such incentive. We examine…

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

Long-Term Effects of Leaving Military Service in a Weak Economy

• June 14, 2018
• Health and Retirement Study, Labor force participation, retirement savings, Veterans

Long-Term Effects of Leaving Military Service in a Weak Economy

• June 14, 2018
• Health and Retirement Study, Labor force participation, retirement savings, Veterans

Previous research finds negative effects in the short and medium term for those who initially entered the labor force during weak labor markets. Discerning the effects of initial market conditions is difficult as young workers may attempt to time their…

The Retirement and Social Security Benefit Claiming of U.S. Military Retirees

• June 14, 2018
• Health and Retirement Study, Retirement, Social Security, Veterans

After serving 20 years in the active component of the U.S. military, service members can retire from the military, as young as age 38, and begin collecting a monthly pension benefit for the remainder of their life. In this paper,…

The Retirement and Social Security Benefit Claiming of U.S. Military Retirees

• June 14, 2018
• Health and Retirement Study, Social Security, Veterans

Racial Difference in the Use of VA Health Services

• June 14, 2018
• Health, Health and Retirement Study, Medicare, Veterans

Racial Difference in the Use of VA Health Services

• June 14, 2018
• Health, Health and Retirement Study, Medicare, Veterans

We study the factors that affect the utilization of health care services administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its racial differences. Due to data limitation, previous research in this regard mostly only focuses on veterans who are…