Health and Retirement Study

Project

2025

Projecting Dementia Incidence by Race and Gender

Using data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), we will estimate a stochastic process for the dementia incidence rate (the probability an individual will succumb to dementia each year) using methods that...

Authors: Eric French, Jerome Simons, Eric Brunner, Yuntao Chen,

Project

2024

Race Disparities and Consequences of Cancer Diagnosis on Preretirement Work Disruption

Cancer is among the most common health problems that adults face, leading to work disruptions and, consequently, decreased economic security of workers and their families. Black adults have higher risks of cancer-related job disruptions than their white counterparts....

Authors: Dawn Carr, Askal Ali,

Project

2024

Pathways and Persistence of Labor Force Transitions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Using new data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we will document pathways out of the labor force during the COVID-19 pandemic; estimate the persistence of transitions into retirement, disability, and other nonwork states for near retirement workers; and...

Authors: Maria Casanova, David Knapp,

Project

2023

RAND HRS Poverty Measures for HRS 1994

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 programs is poverty status. A...

Authors: Susann Rohwedder,

Project

2023

Enhancing the RAND HRS CAMS Public Use File

In 2001 the Health and Retirement Study launched a supplementary survey, the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS). CAMS is a biennial survey of a random subsample of HRS participants. Its purpose is to collect detailed information on household spending. The...

Authors: Susann Rohwedder,

Project

2023

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Effects of COVID-19 on Job Separation and Financial Precarity

Drawing on Health and Retirement Study data collected in 2021, we will examine racial differences in the COVID-19 pandemic’s consequences on financial security. We hypothesize that, relative to their white counterparts, Black and Hispanic older workers were more...

Authors: Dawn Carr, Amanda Sonnega,

Project

2023

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Job Characteristics and Patterns in Disability Retirement and Social Security Retirement Wealth

Using Health and Retirement Study data together with rich job characteristic data from O*NET, we will identify variables related to work context that characterize jobs based on levels of physiological and psychological stress. We will evaluate differences by...

Authors: Dawn Carr, Amanda Sonnega,

Project

2023

Medical Spending Risk among the Elderly by Race and Gender

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) linked to administrative Medicare and Medicaid records, along with the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), we estimate the stochastic process for total and out-of-pocket medical spending by race and gender. By...

Authors: Eric French, Karolos Arapakis, John Bailey Jones, Jeremy McCauley,

Project

2022

Creating a Public Resource: O*NET Job Characteristics Data Set for Use with the Health and Retirement Study and Other Surveys

Creating a public resource of historical occupational information from the O*NET database linked with survey data in the HRS will allow researchers to better inform policy makers about the impact of long-term exposure to different types of tasks or work environments...

Authors: Brooke Helppie McFall, Dawn Carr, Amanda Sonnega,

Project

2022

Work and Retirement for Older Black and Hispanic Adults

Growing United States income inequality and the increasing aging of Black and Hispanic populations point to greater risks of financial insecurity for older populations in coming years. Research on retirement determinants for Blacks and Hispanics is limited. We propose...

Authors: Emma Aguila, Zeewan Lee,

Project

2022

Risk of Large Medical Expenditures at Older Ages and Their Impact on Economic Well-being

We investigate the extent to which out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditures replace other types of spending and their role in households’ experiencing financial hardship at older ages. We will begin by documenting trends in out-of-pocked (OOP) medical expenditure risk...

Authors: Susann Rohwedder, Péter Hudomiet, Michael Hurd,

Project

2022

The Effect of COVID-19 on Expected and Actual Labor Supply and Social Security Claiming Among Older Workers

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the working conditions of many U.S. workers. Some lost their jobs either temporarily or permanently, others switched to telework, while essential workers continued working on-site at the risk of becoming infected with the virus. The...

Authors: Michael Hurd, Péter Hudomiet, Susann Rohwedder,

Project

2022

The Role of Physical, Cognitive and Interpersonal Occupational Requirements and Working Conditions on Disability and Retirement

This proposed research project is an expansion of the MRDRC grant UM21-05, where we investigated the role of physical occupational requirements on retirement transitions using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and from the first wave of the Occupational...

Authors: Italo Lopez Garcia, Kathleen J. Mullen, Jeffrey Wenger,

Project

2021

Extending RAND HRS Poverty Measures to Earlier HRS Waves

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 programs is poverty status. A...

Authors: Susann Rohwedder,

Project

2021

Adding New Variables to the RAND HRS Longitudinal File to Better Support Research on Disability

In September 2020, the MRDRC held a data development workshop on “Disability Research with the Health and Retirement Study,” where researchers highlighted the importance and richness of the HRS for the study of disability, but identified some challenges to using the...

Authors: Susann Rohwedder,

Project

2021

Do Workers Injured on the Job and Covered by Workers Compensation End Up on SSDI?

This project will use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to study whether workers who suffer permanently disabling injuries covered by Workers Compensation (WC) subsequently end up on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). If this occurs, then the...

Authors: David Neumark,

Project

2021

What We Talk about When We Talk about Self-employment: Examining Self-employment and the Transition to Retirement among Older Adults in the United States

Many older adults engage in self-employment, yet little is known about the nature of these activities due to a lack of data on work ranging from occasional gig employment to contract work to business ownership. The implications of such arrangements for income and...

Authors: Joelle Abramowitz, Jinseok Kim,

Project

2021

The Lifetime Risk of Spousal Nursing Home Use and its Economic Impact on the Community-dwelling Spouse

A single person in a nursing home is relatively well protected financially, because Medicaid covers nursing home expenses once assets are depleted. Couples, however, are less well protected. For them a great financial threat is that one spouse moves to a nursing home...

Authors: Susann Rohwedder, Péter Hudomiet, Michael Hurd,

Project

2021

The Impact of Medical Spending Shocks on the Wealth and Insurance Purchases of Older Americans

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), this project will estimate a dynamic model of medical spending and how medical spending shocks affect the wealth and insurance purchases of older Americans. Our...

Authors: Eric French, John Bailey Jones, Jeremy McCauley,

Project

2021

The Relationship between Adverse Experiences over the Life Course and Later-life Retirement Due to Disability

We will use data about early- and midlife adversity from the Health and Retirement Study, including the new Life History Mail Survey, to examine the effects of adverse experiences on retirement due to disability. We hypothesize that early- and midlife adverse...

Authors: Amanda Sonnega, Brooke Helppie McFall,

Project Category: Health and Retirement Study

Projecting Dementia Incidence by Race and Gender

Race Disparities and Consequences of Cancer Diagnosis on Preretirement Work Disruption

Pathways and Persistence of Labor Force Transitions During the COVID-19 Pandemic

RAND HRS Poverty Measures for HRS 1994

Enhancing the RAND HRS CAMS Public Use File

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Effects of COVID-19 on Job Separation and Financial Precarity

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Job Characteristics and Patterns in Disability Retirement and Social Security Retirement Wealth

Medical Spending Risk among the Elderly by Race and Gender

Creating a Public Resource: O*NET Job Characteristics Data Set for Use with the Health and Retirement Study and Other Surveys

Work and Retirement for Older Black and Hispanic Adults

Risk of Large Medical Expenditures at Older Ages and Their Impact on Economic Well-being

The Effect of COVID-19 on Expected and Actual Labor Supply and Social Security Claiming Among Older Workers

The Role of Physical, Cognitive and Interpersonal Occupational Requirements and Working Conditions on Disability and Retirement

Extending RAND HRS Poverty Measures to Earlier HRS Waves

Adding New Variables to the RAND HRS Longitudinal File to Better Support Research on Disability

Do Workers Injured on the Job and Covered by Workers Compensation End Up on SSDI?

What We Talk about When We Talk about Self-employment: Examining Self-employment and the Transition to Retirement among Older Adults in the United States

The Lifetime Risk of Spousal Nursing Home Use and its Economic Impact on the Community-dwelling Spouse

The Impact of Medical Spending Shocks on the Wealth and Insurance Purchases of Older Americans

The Relationship between Adverse Experiences over the Life Course and Later-life Retirement Due to Disability

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