2001 – Publication Years

Wealth Shocks and Retirement Timing: Evidence from the Nineties

June 14, 2018
Retirement

How Exits from the Labor Force or Death Impact Household Income

June 14, 2018
Uncategorized

Long-term Labor Force Exit and Economic Well-being: A Cross-National Comparison of Public and Private Income Support

June 14, 2018
Financial well-being, Labor force participation, Retirement, Social Security

Tracking the Household Income of SSDI and SSI Applicants

June 14, 2018
Disability insurance, Supplemental Security Income

Using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to Social Security Administration disability determination records we trace the pattern of household income and the sources of that income from 38 months prior to 39 months following…

Eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance

June 14, 2018
Disability, Disability insurance, Older workers, Social Security

Health, Wealth and Gender: Do Health Shocks of Husbands and Wives Have Different Impacts on Household Wealth?

June 14, 2018
Health, Health and Retirement Study

The extent to which men’s versus women’s health affects household wealth and the mechanisms through which these effects occur have important implications for the welfare of older individuals living with a spouse, and in particular for women who are likely…

Informal Caregiving for Diabetes and Diabetic Complications Among Elderly Americans

June 14, 2018
Disability

Objectives: Little is known regarding the amount of time spent by unpaid caregivers providing help to elderly individuals for disabilities associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). We sought to obtain nationally representative estimates of the time, and associated cost, of informal…

Chances are…Stochastic Forecasts of the Social Security Trust Fund and Attempts to Save It

June 14, 2018
Retirement, Social Security

We present forecasts of the Social Security trust fund, modeling key demographic and economic variables as time series. We evaluate plans for achieving long-term solvency by raising the normal retirement age (NRA), increasing taxes, or investing some portion of the…

Imperfect Knowledge, Retirement and Saving

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study, Retirement

Eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance

June 14, 2018
Disability, Disability insurance, Older workers, Social Security

In order to understand whom among the non-disabled older population experiences a health problem later in life and applies for Social Security Disability Insurance, it is necessary to investigate patterns of coverage and reasons for non-coverage. This paper shows that…