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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Knowledge about Social Security Programs
(2022-09)
Imperfect knowledge of public programs influences use and can lead to suboptimal decisions. We quantify significant disparities in Social Security program knowledge across race and ethnic groups. Differences in knowledge ...
Bridging Employment for Older Workers and the Role of Flexible Scheduling Arrangements
(2023-01)
We conduct a series of stated preference experiments to determine the willingness of hiring and human resource managers to pay for certain job attributes. A cross section of U.S. hiring managers were given experimental ...
Work and Retirement of Older Black and Hispanic Adults
(2022-09)
Growing U.S. income inequality and the 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 ...
The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Employment of Older Workers: Impacts by Gender, Country, and Race
(2022-11)
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), we estimate the impact of health on employment. Estimating the model separately by race and gender, we find that ...
Investigating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Provision of Workplace Accommodations in the U.S.
(2022-09)
This study used data from a nationally representative survey that follows people 50 and older over time (the Health and Retirement Study) to test whether the receipt of workplace accommodations by persons with work limitations ...
The Ongoing Impacts of COVID-19 on Americans’ Economic Security
(2022-09)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had enormous effects on the U.S. economy. We use longitudinal survey data from a nationally representative Internet panel, the Understanding America Study, to examine the impacts of the pandemic, ...
Understanding Racial Disparities in Financial Preparedness for Retirement
(2022-09)
We estimate a model of labor supply and savings over the life cycle where key parameters — including the interest rate, the degree of risk aversion and the fixed cost of working, and the stochastic processes of health, ...
Retirement Pensions and Disability Insurance for the 21st Century
(2023-01)
This project estimates the degree of disability risk among the United States and English over-50 populations. Using a disability measure that closely matches the criteria used by English and U.S. disability systems, we ...
Assessing the First Economic Impact Payment in the Older Population Using the Health and Retirement Study
(2023-01)
We use data collected by the Health and Retirement Study in its 2020 wave to study awareness and impact of the Economic Impact Payment stimulus on different groups of older Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
Job Demands and Social Security Disability Insurance Applications
(2023-04)
We use data from the Health and Retirement Study to identify the effect of job demands on applications for Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income benefits and to assess whether these job ...