Access to economic opportunity in the United States is not uniform. In addition to heterogeneous mobility patterns by race/ethnicity and geography, new research suggests children whose parent(s) have work-limiting health ...

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 ...

Applications to DI have declined in recent years but extant research shed little light on what has been driving these trends. Research surveys and interviews based on self-report data may not reveal more personal situations ...

Long-term care represents a significant cost to older adults in the US, and nursing home use is an important part of long-term care. It is therefore important to understand how older adults make nursing home-related ...

A large share of the growing demand for care is met informally by relatives. Many family caregivers also work, and the empirical evidence suggests that burden of caregiving interferes with employment. Although it is ...

This study documents the credit outcomes of older adults immediately before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. Using credit data to track indicators of financial distress, this study shows that on ...

Understanding current and future retirees’ financial security requires considering that decision-making and subsequent consequences may extend beyond them to their significant others (or their adult children). Children ...

Work during the preretirement years is a vital component of long-term wellbeing, especially with life expectancy increasing and the burden of saving for retirement shifting heavily toward workers. Employment experiences ...

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 ...

American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN) participate in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program at about twice the rate of the general population. Despite experiencing some of the worst poverty and mortality rates ...