Program interaction

Social Security’s Role in Economic Security: Evidence and Insight from an Analysis of Multiprogram Participation

• March 5, 2024
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Financial well-being, Program interaction

We use the 2014 and 2018 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation to assess multiprogram participation — the number of public programs or subsidies that an individual is a beneficiary of at a given time. Our aim…

The Effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Supplemental Security Income

• August 25, 2023
• Susan Barnes
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Disability, Program interaction, Supplemental Security Income

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990 and implemented in 1992 with the goal of eliminating discrimination against disabled workers. It did so by requiring employers to accommodate disabled workers and by providing protections against discrimination based…

Social Security’s Role in Economic Security: Evidence and Insight from an Analysis of Multiprogram Participation

• October 25, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Disparities, Program interaction, Social Security

We estimate individual participation in 18 separate spending programs and construct measures of nonparticipation and density of participation (which we call multiprogram participation) by age, race, ethnicity, and gender groups. We then use regression analysis to predict non- and multiprogram…

Workplace Injuries and Receipt of Benefits from Workers Compensation and SSDI*

• April 13, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Disability insurance, Health and Retirement Study, Program interaction, Social Security

We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and matched Social Security Administration (SSA) data to study two questions. First, we examine evidence on whether workers who suffer permanently disabling injuries covered by workers’ compensation (WC) subsequently end…

Underfunded Public Sector Pension Plans, Social Security Participation, and the Retirement Decisions of Public Employees

• April 13, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• pensions, Program interaction, Social Security

Workplace Injuries and Receipt of Benefits from Workers Compensation and SSDI*

• December 21, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Disability, Disability insurance, Program interaction

We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and matched Social Security Administration (SSA) data to study two questions. First, we examine evidence on whether workers who suffer permanently disabling injuries covered by workers’ compensation (WC) subsequently end…

2018 Key Findings

• July 15, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Administrative data link, Affordable Care Act, Behavioral economics, benefit claiming, Cognition, Financial well-being, Health and Retirement Study, Health reform, International, Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Life-cycle model, Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortality trends, OASDI trust funds, Older workers, Payroll taxes, pensions, Program interaction, retirement savings, Second career, Social Security, Social Security program communications, Social Security reform, Social Security spousal benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Totalization, Veterans

On the Distribution and Dynamics of Medical Expenditure among the Elderly

• November 29, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Health, pensions, Program interaction, retirement savings

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), we estimate the stochastic process for total medical spending and its components.  By focusing on dynamics, we consider not only the risk of catastrophic…

A Meta-Analysis of the Decline in the Labor Force Participation Rate

• September 20, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Labor force participation, Program interaction

2017 Key Findings

• August 29, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Affordable Care Act, Financial well-being, Health, Life-cycle model, Older workers, Program interaction, retirement savings, Social Security reform, Social Security spousal benefits, Veterans