2012 – Publication Years

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

June 14, 2018
Disability, Health and Retirement Study, Older workers, Retirement

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

June 14, 2018
Disability, Health and Retirement Study, Older workers, Retirement

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 in…

Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability: Longitudinal Statistics from Matched Administrative Data

June 14, 2018
Disability, Disability insurance, Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Medicare

Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability: Longitudinal Statistics from Matched Administrative Data

June 14, 2018
Disability, Disability insurance, Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Medicare

Vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies can potentially help disability-insured workers stay at work or return to work when they experience the onset of a disabling physical or mental condition. Such assistance could prevent or delay their exit from the labor force…

At the Corner of Main and Wall Street: Family Pension Responses to Liquidity Change and Perceived Returns

June 14, 2018
Family dynamics, pensions

The U.S. economy experienced a shift away from employment with coverage under a defined benefit (DB) pension plan during 1991-2009. Defined contribution (DC) plan coverage seems not to have risen much, if at all, for married men in the recent…

Diminishing Margins: Housing Market Declines and Family Financial Responses

June 14, 2018
Disability, Labor force participation, Labor Supply

We utilize data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to study borrowing decisions and other factors related to the run-up in housing prices in 1999-2007, their precipitous decline in 2007-2009, and how they contributed to mortgage distress and…

Medicaid Insurance in Old Age

June 14, 2018
Medicaid, Retirement

Medicaid Insurance in Old Age

June 14, 2018
Medicaid, Retirement

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,…

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

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

Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability: Longitudinal Statistics from Matched Administrative Data

Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability: Longitudinal Statistics from Matched Administrative Data

At the Corner of Main and Wall Street: Family Pension Responses to Liquidity Change and Perceived Returns

Diminishing Margins: Housing Market Declines and Family Financial Responses

Medicaid Insurance in Old Age

Medicaid Insurance in Old Age

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

Investment Decisions in Retirement: The Role of Subjective Expectations