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Working Paper

Do Older Americans Have More Income Than We Think?

July 25, 2017

This paper reassesses income and poverty statistics for the population aged 65 and over using the CPS ASEC linked to IRS and SSA administrative records.

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Working Paper

Historical Living Arrangements of Older Adults: 1967–2016

April 2017

This study looks at changes in the living arrangements of adults 50 years or older since the 1960s.

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Working Paper

Retirement Income of Women Working Longer

September 2016

Despite women’s increased labor force attachment over the lifecycle, household surveys do not show increases in retirement income for women at older ages.

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A Portrait of Older Persons Working with a Disability

June 24, 2016

A substantial minority of older people with a disability continues to work past 62, yet there is little research on the occupations they work in.

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Working Paper

Commuting Patterns of Older Workers in the United States, 2008-2012

March 2016

This paper describes commuting patterns of older workers in the United States, based on data from the 5-year 2008-2012 American Community Survey (ACS).

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Working Paper

The Disability of Veterans

January 14, 2016

This analysis evaluates how the ACS question on VA service-connected disability status relates to the series of questions about functional disability status.

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Working Paper

What are the Ages of the Oldest and Youngest Employees?

December 2014

This research will look at the age distribution of the occupations of employed United States residents aged 16 and over by age group.

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Working Paper

An Examination of Retirement Income for the 65+ Population

May 2014

Every several years the SIPP is supplemented by a topical module which measures the retirement income and retirement plan coverage of the population.

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Working Paper

Use of Medicare Enrollment Data in the Demographic Analysis Estimates

October 2011

Focus on Medicare enrollment as a source for estimating the population aged 65 and older on April 1, 2010.

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Working Paper

Can Americans Afford to Retire?

2011

As members of the baby-boomer generation approach retirement age, much attention has been focused on whether these individuals are prepared for retirement.

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Working Paper

Selected Characteristics of Baby Boomers 42 to 60 Years Old in 2006

November 2009

This age and sex report contains information about baby boomers.

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Working Paper

United States Population Projections: 2000 to 2050

2009

Over the next four decades, the U.S. is expected to experience rapid growth in its older population and a large increase in racial and ethnic diversity.

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Working Paper

Disability Status and the Characteristics of People in Group Quarters

February 2008

The Census Bureau, using data from the ACS, currently publishes approximately eighty tables on AFF that describe both the prevalence of disability.

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Working Paper

Working Beyond Retirement-Age

2008

This presentation focuses on why people might be working beyond retirement-age.

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Working Paper

Co-Resident Grandparents and Grandchildren With No Parent

August 2006

In 2004, there were 5.7 million grandparents living with grandchildren under age 18 in the United States.

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Working Paper

Estimates About Fertility and Grandparents

2006

This report first compares estimates of the number of women who gave birth in the 12 months preceding the survey date.

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Working Paper

Variations in State Mortality From 1960 to 1990

September 26, 2003

This paper assesses trends in mortality levels as indicated by changes in state life expectancy at birth and at age 65 from 1960 to 1990.

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Working Paper

Age and Material Well-Being in the SIPP

August 2003

Increasing interest has focused on new ways to measure material well-being.

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Working Paper

Grandparents Living with Grandchildren in the United States

October 13, 2001

New data from the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey shows that 5.6 million grandparents were living in a household with one or more of their grandchildren.

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Working Paper

Grandparents in the United States, 2001

2001

This paper discusses characteristics of grandparents, both those living with grandchildren, and those living apart from grandchildren.

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Working Paper

Analysis of State and County Population Changes: 1990-1999

November 2000

Informs data users about evolving population trends affecting the demographic landscape of the United States.

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Working Paper

Who are the Poor Elderly? Report Using Alternative Poverty Measures

February 2000

This paper reviews the recent literature on poverty measurement among the elderly by bringing together issues that bear upon measures of resources and needs.

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Working Paper

Application of Experimental Poverty Measures to the Aged

1999

This article examines poverty among persons aged 65 or older under experimental measures, which are based on a 1995 report released by the NAC.

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Working Paper

Co-resident Grandparents and Their Grandchildren

March 1998

This paper estimates how many grandparents maintain households for their grandchildren and how these numbers have changed since 1990.

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Working Paper

Private Health Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Care

June 1992

Unobserved common factors are powerful explanation of the decision to have private health insurance and the use of medical care by elderly Medicare recipients.

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Working Paper

Who Helps Whom in Older Parent-Child Families

June 1992

This paper attempts to provide a better understanding of the contributions of parents & adult children who live together through analysis of data from the SIPP.

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Working Paper

Health Insurance Coverage Among the Elderly

June 1991

The research reported in this paper examines the decision to have private health insurance by elderly Medicare enrollees.

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Working Paper

Trends in Income and Wealth of the Elderly in the 1980's

March 1991

Not everyone benefited from the prosperity of the 1980’s, it is of interest to find out how the elderly, or persons age 65 and over, fared in these years.

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Working Paper

Household and Nonhousehold Living Arrangements in Later Life

June 1990

Choice of living arrangement may be associated with different costs and different access to public and private resources.

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Working Paper

Living Benefits: Closing The Gap for LTC Financing

June 1990

Assesses the possible part that living benefits could play in financing long term care for the current elderly by examining the holdings of life insurance.

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Working Paper

The Elderly and Their Sources Of Income

June 1990

Transfer payments and property income have become large sources of income and are particularly important to the elderly.

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Working Paper

Living Arrangements of the Elderly and Social Policy

February 1990

Relative importance of living arrangements to personal happiness increases as persons age.

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Working Paper

A Resource-Based Model of Living Arrangements of the Unmarried Elderly

June 1989

Explores the degree to which demographic characteristics, economic resources, & health determine the choice of living arrangements among the elderly population.

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Working Paper

The Economic Resources of the Elderly

May 1989

Estimating the elderly's relative economic well-being is of considerable policy importance, but poses several technical problems.

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Working Paper

How are the Elderly Housed? New Data from the 1984 SIPP

July 1988

This paper considers the housing of the older population in terms of age groups, rather than as the usual "65 and over” category.

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Working Paper

Income as a Proxy for the Economic Status of the Elderly

July 1988

This paper explores the importance of having asset data to evaluate the economic situation of the elderly.

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