2011 – Publication Years

2011 MRRC Key Findings

June 14, 2018
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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

June 14, 2018
benefit claiming, Disability, Disability insurance, Labor force participation

An influential body of research studies the labor supply and earnings of denied Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants to estimate the potential employment and earnings of those awarded benefits. This research design implicitly treats employability as a stable applicant…

Earnings Growth versus Measures of Income and Education for Predicting Mortality

June 14, 2018
Health, Mortality trends, Social Security

Earnings Growth versus Measures of Income and Education for Predicting Mortality

June 14, 2018
Health, Mortality trends, Social Security

This paper begins an exploration to determine whether earnings growth, as a measure of the propensity to invest in human capital, is a valuable variable for predicting mortality. To insure its robustness and general applicability to ongoing Social Security models,…

Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study

Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study

In a previous study, we found the family of personality traits known as conscientiousness to be associated in cross-sectional analyses with both lifetime earnings and wealth. In this study, we used data from an Internet survey of HRS respondents in…

Macroeconomic Conditions and Updating of Expectations by Older Americans

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study, Labor Supply

Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

June 14, 2018
benefit claiming, Disability, Disability insurance, Labor force participation

An influential body of research studies the labor supply and earnings of denied Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants to estimate the potential employment and earnings of those awarded benefits. This research design implicitly treats employability as a stable applicant…

» Publications

2011 MRRC Key Findings

Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

Earnings Growth versus Measures of Income and Education for Predicting Mortality

Earnings Growth versus Measures of Income and Education for Predicting Mortality

Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis

Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis

Macroeconomic Conditions and Updating of Expectations by Older Americans

Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

The Effects of the Financial Crisis on Actual and Anticipated Consumption

Consumption and Differential Mortality