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2012

Communication with Individuals with Intellectual and Psychiatric Disabilities: A Literature Review

Governmental agencies serve individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and Psychiatric Disabilities (PD) and must consequently communicate with these individuals at multiple points, from interviews with claims representatives to written notices sent to applicants...

Authors: Walton O. Schalick III,

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2012

Using the 2008 CPS-ASEC-SSA Matched Data Set to Show Who Is and Is Not Captured in the Official BLS Six-Question Sequence on Disability

With 2008 CPS-ASEC-SSA administrative records data, we will measure the degree that work-limitation-based and six-question disability sequence-based samples of the working-age population with disabilities capture the SSDI/SSI-disabled adult population. Using other...

Authors: Richard Burkhauser, Jennifer R. Tennant,

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2012

Estimates of the Potential Insurance Value of Disability Insurance for Individuals with Mental Health Impairments

Since the mid-1980s there has been dramatic growth in the number and fraction of DI and SSI beneficiaries with mental illness. With longer life expectancies and younger ages of disability onset than beneficiaries with physical impairments, their growth exerts added...

Authors: John Bound, Timothy Waidmann,

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2012

The Economic Well-Being of Rejected Disability Applicants

The aim of this research is to improve our understanding of the economic well-being of rejected disability applicants. Previous studies on rejected applicants have tracked them over short time horizons but not had the sample size necessary to decompose rejected...

Authors: Susan Chen,

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2012

SSDI and Healthcare Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts

As health insurance coverage becomes available outside of the employment relationship as a result of the Affordable Care Act, the ‘cost’ of applying for SSDI — potentially having to go without health insurance coverage during the two-year Medicare...

Authors: Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen, Alexander Strand,

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2012

Does Disability Insurance Save Lives?

Previous research has shown that changes in income and health insurance are associated with changes in health and/or mortality. This study examines whether participation in the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and/or Supplemental Security Income (SSI)...

Authors: Nicole Maestas, Kathleen J. Mullen, Alexander Strand,

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2012

Trends in Longitudinal Statistics for Young Social Security Disability Awardees

Building on past work, we will use administrative data on annual cohorts of young Social Security Disability (SSD) awardees — Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) workers and Disabled Adult Children (DAC) — to produce statistics on their...

Authors: David Stapleton, Yonatan Ben-Shalom,

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2012

Recessionary Impacts on SSI Participation

The Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI) provides federally-funded income support for disabled individuals and has become the most important means-tested transfer program in the United States. Previous studies have examined the effects of economic conditions on...

Authors: Austin Nichols, Purvi Sevak, Lucie Schmidt,

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2012

The Great Recession, Workers with Disabilities and Implications for Retirement Security

Evidence suggests that older workers with disabilities have been hit particularly hard by the recent recession. The increased difficulty in finding a job faced by individuals with disabilities, combined with the longer spells of unemployment experienced by all workers...

Authors: Purvi Sevak, Lucie Schmidt,

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2012

Retirement in Japan and the United States: Cross-national Comparisons using the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) and the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

Cross-national comparisons of data from developed countries have provided many insights into the retirement process and policy. We make use of new data from the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) and the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to consider...

Authors: Olivia S. Mitchell, John W. R. Phillips,

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2012

Expectations about Social Security and Retirement Planning: The Role of Uncertainty and the Impact of Economic Shocks

Forming realistic expectations about future Social Security benefits is critical to successful retirement planning. We propose to use new panel data on Social Security expectations to (i) assess the degree of individuals’ uncertainty about their future Social...

Authors: Susann Rohwedder, Adeline Delavande,

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2012

The Effects of Increases in the Normal Retirement Age when Age Discrimination Protections are Stronger: Evidence from the Hiring Side

Policy changes intended to delay retirements of older workers and extend their work lives may run up against demand-side barriers from age discrimination, and supply-side barriers owing to rising physical challenges of work as people age. We study three questions. ...

Authors: David Neumark,

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2012

Trading Off Delayed Social Security Benefits for a Lump-Sum: Impacts on Work and Retirement Behavior, Saving, and Well-Being

Social Security benefits are currently provided as a lifelong benefit stream, though some workers would be willing to trade a portion of their annuity streams in exchange for a lump sum amount. This paper explores whether allowing people to receive a lump sum as a...

Authors: Raimond H. Maurer,

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2012

The Interplay of Wealth, Retirement Decisions, Policy and Economic Shocks

We develop a model of health investments and consumption over the life cycle where health affects longevity, provides flow utility, and retirement is endogenous. We develop a rich, numerical life-cycle model to study the complex interrelationship between health and...

Authors: John Karl Scholz, Ananth Seshadri,

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2012

Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Support

A review of the literature suggests that when pension values are measured by the wealth equivalent of promised DB pension benefits and DC balances for those approaching retirement, pensions account for more support in retirement than is suggested when their...

Authors: Thomas L. Steinmeier, Alan Gustman, Nahid Tabatabai,

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2012

Personality Traits and Economic Preparation for Retirement

This paper assesses the effects of personality traits on economic preparation for retirement, wealth accumulation, and consumption, among persons 66 to 69 years of age. Among the five chief personality traits of neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness,...

Authors: Michael Hurd, David Weir, Susann Rohwedder, Angela Lee Duckworth,

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2012

The Costs and Benefits of Medicaid in Old Age

Medicaid was primarily designed to protect and insure the poor. However, the poor tend to live much shorter lifespans and thus incur much lower medical expenses before death. In this paper, we assess the insurance and redistributive properties of Medicaid, taking...

Authors: Eric French, John Bailey Jones, Mariacristina De Nardi,

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2012

Investment Decisions in Retirement: the role of expectations, health risk and pension benefits

The rapid transition from defined benefit (DB) pension plans to defined contribution (DC) plans has a potential benefit of offering pension holders greater control over how their pension accumulations are invested. If pension holders are willing to take some risk,...

Authors: Michael Hurd, Erik Meijer, Marco Angrisani,

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2012

Technological Progress and the Earnings of Older Workers

This proposal seeks to use SSA’s Continuous Work History Sample (CWHS) data to study the effect of technological progress on the earnings for workers of different ages, in particular, older workers nearing retirement. Prior work by Laitner and Stolyarov used decennial...

Authors: John Laitner, Dmitriy Stolyarov, Jae Song, Yuriy Gorodnichenko,

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2012

Tax Elasticity of Labor Earnings for Older Individuals

This paper studies the impact of income and payroll taxes on intensive and extensive labor supply decisions for workers ages 55-74 using the Health and Retirement Study. The literature provides little guidance about the responsiveness of this population to tax...

Authors: David Powell, Abby Alpert,

Project Year: 2012

Communication with Individuals with Intellectual and Psychiatric Disabilities: A Literature Review

Using the 2008 CPS-ASEC-SSA Matched Data Set to Show Who Is and Is Not Captured in the Official BLS Six-Question Sequence on Disability

Estimates of the Potential Insurance Value of Disability Insurance for Individuals with Mental Health Impairments

The Economic Well-Being of Rejected Disability Applicants

SSDI and Healthcare Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts

Does Disability Insurance Save Lives?

Trends in Longitudinal Statistics for Young Social Security Disability Awardees

Recessionary Impacts on SSI Participation

The Great Recession, Workers with Disabilities and Implications for Retirement Security

Retirement in Japan and the United States: Cross-national Comparisons using the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) and the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

Expectations about Social Security and Retirement Planning: The Role of Uncertainty and the Impact of Economic Shocks

The Effects of Increases in the Normal Retirement Age when Age Discrimination Protections are Stronger: Evidence from the Hiring Side

Trading Off Delayed Social Security Benefits for a Lump-Sum: Impacts on Work and Retirement Behavior, Saving, and Well-Being

The Interplay of Wealth, Retirement Decisions, Policy and Economic Shocks

Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Support

Personality Traits and Economic Preparation for Retirement

The Costs and Benefits of Medicaid in Old Age

Investment Decisions in Retirement: the role of expectations, health risk and pension benefits

Technological Progress and the Earnings of Older Workers

Tax Elasticity of Labor Earnings for Older Individuals

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