Browsing Retirement and Disability Research Center by Title
Now showing items 1-20 of 96
-
Child Care for Families Raising Children with Disabilities: The Role of Federal Policy in Equitable Access
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Despite consistent evidence that families with children with disabilities face great difficulty in balancing employment and caregiving, little is known about the role federal policies play in supporting employment of parents ... -
EMF21-01: Does a Requirement to Offer Retirement Plans Help Low-Income Workers Save for Retirement? An Early Evidence from the Oregon Saves Program
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)This study examines the first implemented state-run retirement program (Auto IRA) in Oregon (OregonSaves) in 2017 and provides early evidence of the significant impact on saving for retirement among uncovered private worker. ... -
EMF21-02: The Role of Health Insurance in the Latinx-White Wealth Gap in the United States
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Latinx people have substantially less wealth than non-Latinx, White persons in the United States. One underexplored mechanism behind this wealth gap is healthcare coverage. This study asked: How does healthcare insurance ... -
EMF21-03: Effects of Income Payment Timing on Financial Shortfalls for Retirees and People with Disabilities
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)A key question that this study aims to explore is whether Social Security income payment timing affects financial shortfalls. We would expect that pay cycle would not affect likelihood of financial shortfall. However, this ... -
EMF21-04: Effects of Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace Plans on Disability Claiming
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Health insurance marketplaces, a.k.a. “exchanges”, were established through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to facilitate individual access to affordable health insurance following the implementation of the individual ... -
EMF22-01: Assessing Administrative Burden Among Supplemental Security Income Recipients
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients often manage multiple benefit programs to manage their health and disability and make ends meet. The administrative burden of accessing and maintaining SSI and additional ... -
EMF22-02: Social Security, Retirement and Farmers--A Survey of Wisconsin Farm Owners
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)Planning for retirement is something almost all individuals face as they age. However, farmers face a unique set of challenges when planning for retirement due to specific factors: the close tie between identity and ... -
GRMF19-01: Nativity and the Exposure to Poverty in Later Life
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Despite a large volume of studies on immigrants’ economic incorporation, most studies have focused on foreign-born adults at prime working age and paid little attention to those moving toward retirement. Given that the ... -
GRMF20-01: Continuous Convergence of Cumulative (Dis)advantage? U.S. Immigrants' Economic Integration in Later Life
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)People migrate at various ages and, depending on their age at migration, have different life opportunities as well as needs for public assistance. Immigrants who arrive in the U.S. under the age of 18 are commonly sorted ... -
GRMF20-02: Filling in the Gap: The Role of Employer-provided DI
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)The risk of disability for workers is not trivial. While many workers rely on public disability programs such as the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) to protect them against disability risk, these programs do ... -
Health, Occupations, and Work at Older Ages
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Increases in average life expectancy, better health in older ages, and work becoming less physically demanding have all contributed to a greater number of working years and postponed retirement. However, this is not uniformly ... -
Household Debt and Financial Well-Being in Retirement
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Recent trends in housing and financial asset appreciation would appear to be improving the financial well-being of older Americans. However, without also understanding debt, it is impossible to know whether retirees are ... -
Incentives for Home- and Community-Based Care Under the Affordable Care Act: Implications for SSI Receipt
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)One in three 65-year-olds will require long term care at some point in their lives. Most nursing home stays cost over $3,500 a month, an expense that eventually exhausts the financial resources of most families. Medicaid ... -
IRP 21-01: Labor Force Transitions, Income Changes, and Poverty Entries among Older Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Center for Financial Security, 2021)Economic downturns, like the one caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, can change retirement plans by prompting early retirement or inducing workers to remain in the labor force longer. These changes in the timing and circumstances ... -
IRP20-01: Criminal Justice Involvement and Well-Being in Old Age
(Center for Financial Security, 2020)This paper uses data from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records Systems linked with survey and administrative data sources from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide the first evidence on the looming retirement crisis ... -
JSIT19-01: The Effects of Opioids on Labor Market Outcomes and Use of Social Security Disability Insurance
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)This project investigates the effect of the rate of opioid prescriptions on labor market outcomes (e.g. labor force participation, employment) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application and enrollment. ... -
JSIT19-02: Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Completion among Older Populations
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Twenty million Americans had a substance use disorder (SUD) in 2014. Nearly 8 million had a co-occurring mental health condition (SAMHSA, 2015). SUDs and mental health are often intertwined but the directionality is less ... -
JSIT19-03: Disability and Wealth: Exploring the Liquid Asset Trajectories of SSI and SSDI Applicants
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Social safety net programs provide benefits that insure against disability, poor health, unemployment, and old age. These programs stabilize the financial lives of beneficiaries. Recent work reveals that safety net programs, ... -
JSIT19-04: Financial Security and Immigrants’ Legal Status: An Analysis of Net Worth in the United States
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)Older immigrant adults and racial ethnic minorities are more likely to be financially insecure and live in poverty compared to their U.S. born counterparts. Undocumented immigrants, in particular, may have fewer financial ... -
JSIT19-05: The Impact of Social Security Eligibility on Transfers to Elderly Parents and Wealth-Building among Adult Children
(Center for Financial Security, 2019)In this study, I will explore the impact of social security eligibility on transfers between adult children and elderly parents and the resulting impact on wealth building among adult children. I will also study these ...