Research Briefs

Research Briefs provide a visually engaging and brief format that summarizes research findings and implications for policy and practice.

FY2020 Briefs

WI20-01: Nursing Home Use Expectations and Wealth Accumulation Among Older Adults
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Project WI20-01: Nursing Home Use Expectations & Wealth Accumulation Among the Elderly
WI20-04: Lost and Found: Claiming Behavior in Abandoned Retirement Accounts
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Project WI20-04: Lost and Found: Claiming Behavior in Abandoned Retirement Accounts
WI20-06: Trends in DI Conversations on Online Forums
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Project WI20-06: Trends in DI Conversations on Online Forums
WI20-07: Housing Assistance and SSI Participation
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Project WI20-07: Housing Assistance as a Benefit for the Disabled and SSI Takeup
WI20-08: Economic Opportunity, Drug Overdose Mortality, and Disability
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Project WI20-08: Declining Economic Opportunity, Rising Overdose Rates, & DI Receipt
WI20-09: The Demographics behind Aging in Place: Implications for Supplemental Security Income Eligibility and Receipt
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Project WI20-09: The Demographics behind Aging in Place: Implications for Supplemental Security Income Eligibility and Receipt
WI20-11: Housing Wealth and Economic Security in Retirement: Does Borrowing from Home Equity Increase Adherence to Prescription Drugs?
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Project WI20-11: Housing Wealth and Economic Security in Retirement
WI20-10: Home Ownership and Housing Debt in Retirement: Financial Asset for Consumption Smoothing or Albatross Around the Neck of Retirees?
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Project WI20-10: Home Ownership and Housing Debt in Retirement
WI20-12: Caregiving and Labor Force Participation: New Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation
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Project WI20-12: Caregiving and Labor Force Participation
Postdoc20-01: High School Coursework and Labor Force Attachment at Midlife
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Project PostDoc20-01: High School Coursework and Financial Outcomes at Midlife
GRMF20-01: Continuous Convergence or Cumulative (Dis)advantage? U.S. Immigrants’ Economic Integration in Later Life
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Project GRMF20-01: Continuous Convergence or Cumulative (Dis)advantage? U.S. Immigrants’ Economic Integration in Later Life
JSIT20-01: Direct and Spillover Effects of Child SSI
  • Maliha M. Singh
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Project JSIT20-01: Direct and Indirect Effects of Receiving SSI Benefits During Childhood
JSIT20-02: Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Adult Children’s Wealth Accumulation
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Project JSIT20-02: Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Adult Children’s Wealth Accumulation
JSIT20-03: Pension Plan Types and Social Security Knowledge: New Survey Evidence
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Project JSIT20-03: Pension Plan Types and Social Security Program Knowledge: New Survey Evidence
JSIT20-04: The Effect of Insurance Expansion on SSI Participation: Evidence from the ACA
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Project JSIT20-04: The Effect of Insurance Expansion on Supplemental Security Income Participation: Evidence from ACA Medicaid Expansions
JSIT20-05: The Unintended Effect of Medicaid Aging Waivers on Informal Care giving
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Project JSIT20-05: The Unintended Effect of Medicaid Aging Waivers on Informal Care
WI20-Q1: Determinants of the Use of Supplemental Security Income by American Indian and Alaska Natives
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Project WI20-Q1: Determinants of the Use of Supplemental Security Income by American Indian and Alaska Natives
WI20-02: Firm Investment, Labor Supply, and the Design of Social Insurance: Evidence from Accommodations for Workplace Disability
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Project WI20-02: Employer Incentives in Return to Work Programs
IRP20-01: Criminal Justice Involvement and Well-Being in Old Age
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Project IRP20-01: “What Does Retirement Look Like for the Criminal-Justice-Involved Population? Sources of Income in Old Age for People with Criminal Records

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