Using 100 percent Medicare Part B fee-for-service (FFS) claims in 2012 for people under age 65, I examine office and outpatient services by state and primary diagnosis for the service. The number of services per Medicare-eligible beneficiary in the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance...

In this chapter, we use the Social Security Administration’s simulation model known as MINT (Modeling Income in the Near Term) to examine the projected health and economic status of Baby Boomers and their parents during retirement. Our projections indicate that boomers will enjoy higher levels...

We use data from Social Security administrative records to examine the lifetime patterns of initial entitlement to retired-worker and Disability Insurance (DI) benefits across cohorts born in different years. Breaking out age-at-entitlement patterns for different birth-year cohorts reveals close...

The opioid epidemic remains rampant in New England, where, from 2015 through 2017, more than 10,000 people died from opioid overdoses. In 2017, each of the six states experienced an overdose-death rate that was greater than the national average. Beyond causing a high number of deaths, the opioid...

Using 100 percent Medicare Part B fee-for-service (FFS) claims in 2012 for people under age 65, I examine office and outpatient services by state and primary diagnosis for the service. The number of services per Medicare-eligible beneficiary in the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance...

Second mortgages accounted for 10.8% of the stock of outstanding mortgage debt at the end of 1987, up from 3.6% at the beginning of the 198Os. This paper investigates the determinants of second mortgage borrowing and the characteristics of second mortgage borrowers. We first calculate the...

Using a 1 percent sample of Social Security Administration data, this article documents and analyzes responses in the entitlement age for old-age benefits following the recent changes in Social Security rules. Both rules, the removal of the retirement earnings test (RET) for persons who are at...