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Journal Article

Benefits of Slowing the Aging Process

Most medical research focuses on fighting individual disease. But delayed aging could boost life expectancy by more than two years and yield more than $7 trillion over 50 years. Greater investment in research to delay aging could be a very efficient way to prevent disease, improve public health, and extend healthy life.

Oct 1, 2013
Journal Article

Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt

We present the first causal estimates of the effect of Social Security Disability Insurance benefit receipt on labor supply using all program applicants.

Aug 1, 2013
Journal Article

Retirement and Health Benefits for Mexican Migrant Workers Returning from the United States

Mexican migrants who have spent at least a year in the United States before returning home are less likely to have public health insurance or social security benefits, and could be more vulnerable to poverty in old age.

Apr 1, 2013
Commentary

The SSDI Program's Impact on Human Capital

The combined effects of having potentially employable individuals receive SSDI benefits, and the loss of skills among those who are denied benefits, are significant, write Nicole Maestas and Kathleen Mullen.

Mar 8, 2013
News Release

Combat Injuries Affect Veterans in the Labor Market

Disability payments made to veterans injured during combat adequately compensate them for the earning losses they experience in the civilian job market.

Jun 28, 2012
Report

How Do Combat Injuries Affect Veterans in the Labor Market?

Because of disability compensation, the income of military service members who suffer serious or very serious injuries is on average about 36 percent higher four years following deployment than what would have been expected had they not been injured.

Jun 28, 2012
Periodical

RAND Review: Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2012

Stories cover Iran's nuclear threat, social security in Mexico, programs for veterans, crime costs, U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, the health insurance mandate, legal defense, marijuana legalization, global education, and Louisiana's coastal planning.

May 11, 2012
Testimony

Targeting of SSDI Program Could Be Improved by Reducing the Variation in Initial Determinations

Though consistency in applying disability assessment criteria is intended, it is not easily achieved in practice. For many SSDI applicants, whether they are allowed or denied benefits depends upon the examiner to which their application is assigned.

Mar 20, 2012
Journal Article

Assessing Economic Preparation for Retirement

It is important to assess economic preparation for retirement in a way that addresses many of the deficiencies of the income replacement rate concept.

Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article

Personal Retirement Accounts and Saving

Aging populations are leading countries worldwide to social security reforms. Many countries are moving from pay-as-you-go to personal retirement account (PRA) systems because of their financial sustainability and positive impact on private savings.

Nov 1, 2011
News Release

AARP, Centro Fox and the RAND Corporation Release Findings of New Study on Aging Trends in Mexico

Mexican citizens are living longer and overall have experienced an improvement in the quality of life compared to that of prior generations. However, the demographic transition in Mexico combined with the lack of formal sources of income in retirement place many older persons in a state of financial insecurity.

Oct 18, 2011
News Release

AARP, el Centro Fox y la Corporación RAND Hacen Públicos los Resultados de un Nuevo Estudio Sobre el Envejecimiento

Mexican citizens are living longer and overall have experienced an improvement in the quality of life compared to that of prior generations. However, the demographic transition in Mexico combined with the lack of formal sources of income in retirement place many older persons in a state of financial insecurity.

Oct 18, 2011
Report

Living Longer in Mexico: Income Security and Health: Executive Summary

Describes the income security, health status, and health care coverage of older persons in Mexico and presents policy recommendations that may lead to increased old-age income security and health in Mexico.

Oct 18, 2011
Report

Living Longer in Mexico: Income Security and Health

Mexican citizens are living longer and overall have experienced an improvement in the quality of life compared to that of prior generations. However, the demographic transition in Mexico, combined with the lack of formal sources of income in retirement, places many older persons in a state of financial insecurity.

Oct 18, 2011
Report

Living Longer in Mexico: Income Security and Health (Spanish-language version)

Describes the income security, health status, and health care coverage of older persons in Mexico and presents policy recommendations that may lead to increased old-age income security and health in Mexico (Spanish-language version).

Oct 18, 2011
Project

Center for Disability Research

The RAND Center for Disability Research aims to better understand the social and economic causes and consequences of disability. Research themes include examining the roles of employers, health-care markets, knowledge networks, and social insurance programs.

Jan 21, 2011
Report

Research Designs for Estimating Induced Entry into the SSDI Program Resulting from a Benefit Offset

Provides the Social Security Administration with a set of research design options for estimating the induced entry effects of a proposed $1-for-$2 benefit offset for its Social Security Disability Insurance program.

Dec 14, 2010
News Release

More Americans Will Delay Retirement; Trend Will Help Bolster Social Security and Medicare

An unprecedented upturn in the number of older Americans who delay retirement is likely to continue and even accelerate over the next two decades, a trend that should help ease the financial challenges facing both Social Security and Medicare.

Apr 7, 2010
Brochure

£2.6 billion fraud and error. Too much?

Should the Department of Work and Pensions have its accounts signed off? RAND Europe's international benchmark of fraud and error in social security systems.

Mar 11, 2010
Journal Article

Using Matched Survey and Administrative Data to Estimate Eligibility for Medicare Part D Low Income Subsidy Program

This article uses matched survey and administrative data to estimate, as of 2006, the size of the population eligible for the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS), which was designed to provide "extra help" with premiums, deductibles, and copayments for Medicare Part D beneficiaries with low income and limited assets.

Dec 31, 2009

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RAND Topic:
Social Security

Topic Synonyms:
Social Security Program;
SSA

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