Research Briefs

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

FY2023 Briefs

WI23-02: Disparities by Race and Gender in SS(D)I Applications and Awards
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Project WI23-02: Disparities by Race/Ethnicity and Sex/Gender in SS(D)I Applications and Awards
WI23-04: "Its Hard To Know What to Expect": Parents of Children with Disabilities in Retirement
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Project WI23-04: Parents of Children with Disabilities in Retirement: Economic Well-Being and Benefit Adequacy
WI23-05: The Effect of Public Policies on Work Disability: A Lifecourse Perspective
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Project WI23-05: The Effect of Public Policies on Work Disability: A Lifecourse Perspective
WI23-06: Does Health Insurance Reduce Consumption Risk?
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Project WI23-06: Does Health Insurance Reduce Consumption Risk?
WI23-08: COVID-19 Health Disparities and the Economic Security of Families with Children
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Project WI23-08: COVID-19 Health Disparities and the Economic Security of Families with Children
WI23-07: The Impacts of Racial Diferences in Economic Challenges on Housing, Wealth, and Economic Security Among OASI Benefciaries
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Project WI23-07: The Impacts of Racial Differences in Economic Challenges on Housing, Wealth, and Economic Security Among OASI Beneficiaries
WI23-11: Work-Related Injuries and Older Workers: Earnings, Labor Supply, Program Participation, and Retirement
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Project WI23-11: The Long-run Effects of Workplace Injuries on Older Workers: Earnings, SSDI, SSI, and Early Retirement
WI23-12: Financial Inclusion Across the United States
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Project WI23-12: Financial Inclusion Across the United States
WI23-13: How Does the Death of a Partner During the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Economic Security of the Surviving Older Adult? Evidence From Credit Panel and Labor Force Participation Data
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Project WI23-13: How Does the Death of a Partner During the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Economic Security of the Surviving Older Adult? Evidence From Credit Panel and Labor Force Participation Data
WI23-14: Pathways into and out of Housing Insecurity and Homelessness: Relationships between Age, Public Program Use, and Housing Stability
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Project WI23-14: Pathways Into and Out of Homelessness: The Role of Frontline Workers to Promote Social Security Benefits Uptake and Housing Security for Adults 50 and Older Living in the Boston Area
WI23-09: Social Security Policy Design and Racial Wealth Disparities
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Project WI23-09: Social Security Policy Design and Racial Wealth Disparities
WI23-10: Improving Financial Security for People with Disabilities: The Promise of ABLE Accounts
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Project WI23-10: Improving Financial Security for People with Disabilities through ABLE Accounts
WI23-Q2: Social Security Beneficiary Status and Repartnering after Gray Divorce
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Project WI23-Q2: Social Security Beneficiary Status and Repartnering after Gray Divorce
EMF23-01: Getting Older and Getting By With SSI
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Project EMF23-01: Growing Older and Getting By, With and Without SSI: Qualitative Evidence from the American Voices Project
JSIT23-01: Who Will Benefit from the 2024 ABLE Age Adjustment Act?
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Project JSIT23-01: Who will benefit from the 2026 ABLE Age Adjustment Act?
JSIT23-03: Work Credit Accumulation & SSDI Eligibility Among Young Adults
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Project JSIT23-03: Work Credit Accumulation & SSDI Eligibility Among Young Adults
JSIT23-04: Access to Paid Sick Leave and the Employment of Older Adults
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Project JSIT23-04: Does access to paid sick leave facilitate the employment of older workers?
JSIT23-05: Disability and Social Welfare Participation through the Lens of Food Insecurity
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Project JSIT23-05: Disability, food insecurity, and multiple program participation across the social welfare system
EMF23-02: The Relationship Between Pre-Retirement Psychological Distress and Family Wealth at Retirement by Race and Gender: An Analysis From 2007 - 2019 in the United States
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Project EMF23-02: An Analysis of The Effects of Prior Psychological Distress on Retirement Age and Wealth in Retirement by Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
JSIT23-02: Violent Victimization, Lost Earnings, and Implications for Social Security Trust Funds and Social Security Earnings-Based Tax Revenue
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Project JSIT23-02: Violent Victimization, Lost Earnings, and Implications for Social Security Trust Funds and Social Security Earnings-Based Tax Revenue
WI23-16: Automation and the Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Applications
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Project WI23-16: The Effects of Automation Technologies on SSDI Applications and Awards
IRP23-01: Ordinary Lives: Insurance and Savings in America, 1861 to 1941
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Project IRP23-01: The Unintended Consequences of Roosevelt’s Reforms: Retirement Savings, Peacetime Inflation, and the Persistence of Racial Wealth Inequality in the US
WI23-Q3: Under-Claiming of Survivors’ Benefits Among Non-Elderly Adults
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Project WI23-Q3: Is there Under-claiming of Survivors’ Benefits Among Adults Under Age 62?

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