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Does Protecting Older Workers from Discrimination Make It Harder to Get Hired?

We study the effects of disability discrimination laws on hiring of older workers. These laws do not specifically define older disabled workers as a protected class. But the incidence of disabilities rises steeply with age, so older workers may be…

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Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transfers

Understanding whether the elderly are saving adequately is fundamental to understanding whether elderly households are able to maintain reasonable living standards. One factor that affects wealth accumulation is the extent to which parents need to support children and the extent…

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Responses of Time-use to Shocks in Wealth during the Great Recession

  • June 14, 2018
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Shocks to income and wealth decrease the household’s monetary budget available. As a consequence, households respond by decreasing consumption spending. Income shocks, such as unexpected unemployment and retirement, also increase the time-budget available in addition to decreasing the monetary budget…

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Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: An Exploratory Analysis

This paper examines the distributional implications of introducing additional means testing of Social Security benefits where proceeds are used to help balance Social Security’s finances. Benefits of the top quarter of households ranked according to the relevant measure of means…

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Have We Finally Achieved Actuarial Fairness of Social Security Retirement Benefits and Will It Last?

This paper develops a framework to analyze the actuarial adjustments faced by American workers who claim Social Security benefits before or after their Full Retirement Age (FRA). We derive the conditions under which these adjustments are “actuarially fair” (or “neutral”)…

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Have We Finally Achieved Actuarial Fairness of Social Security Retirement Benefits and Will It Last?

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Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: An Exploratory Analysis

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2013 MRRC Key Findings

  • June 14, 2018
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Is the 2010 Affordable Care Act Minimum Standard to Identify Disability in All National Datasets Good Enough for Policy Purposes?

Using linked 2009 Current Population Survey (CPS)-Annual Social and Economic Supplement/Social Security Administration records data and a definition of disability based on the six-question disability sequence (6QS) in the CPS-Basic Monthly Survey we perform a face validity test that shows…

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Is the 2010 Affordable Care Act Minimum Standard to Identify Disability in All National Datasets Good Enough for Policy Purposes?

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