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Working Papers

2018

1. Distributional Effects of Alternative Strategies for Financing Long-Term Services and Supports and Assisting Family Caregivers
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
2. How Might Earnings Patterns and Interactions among Certain Provisions in OASDI Solvency Packages Affect Financing and Distributional Goals?
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research

2013

3. Validating Longitudinal Earnings in Dynamic Microsimulation Models: The Role of Outliers
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)

2012

4. Social Measuring Social Security Proposals by More than Solvency: Impacts on Poverty, Progressivity, Horizontal Equity, and Work Incentives
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research

2011

5. Immigrant Diversity and Social Security: Recent Patterns and Future Prospects
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (6)

2009

6. Rising Tides and Retirement: The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Differential Wage Growth on Social Security
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
7. Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research

2008

8. The Impact of Changing Earnings Volatility on Retirement Wealth
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (2)
9. The Implications of Career Lengths for Social Security
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)

2007

10. Social Security Spouse and Survivor Benefits for the Modern Family
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (12)

2004

11. Interactions Between Social Security Reform and the Supplemental Security Income Program for the Age
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (8)
12. Living Arrangements and Supplemental Security Income Receipt Among the Aged
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research

1998

13. Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
    See also Chapter Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) View citations (27) (1999)

Undated

14. How Would the President's Fiscal Commission's Social Security Proposals Affect Future Beneficiaries?
    Project Reports, Urban Institute, Program on Retirement Policy

Journal Articles

2011

1. The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update
   Demography, 2011, 48, (2), 481-506 View citations (68)

2004

2. Economic Status in Later Life Among Women Who Raised Children Outside of Marriage
   The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2004, 59, (6), S315-S323 View citations (4)

1999

3. Labor Force Participation of Older Workers: Prospective Changes and Potential Policy Responses
   National Tax Journal, 1999, 52, (3), 483-504 View citations (4)

Chapters

2007

1. Minimum Benefits in Social Security
   Palgrave Macmillan

1999

2. Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans
   A chapter in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 13, 1999, pp 109-148 View citations (27)
   See also Working Paper Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1998) View citations (9) (1998)