Differential Mortality and Retirement Benefits in the Health and Retirement Study
This analysis uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to examine the sources of variation in mortality for individuals of varying socioeconomic status. The use of the HRS allows a distinction between education and a measure of career earnings as primary determinants of socioeconomic status for men and women separately. We use those predictions of mortality to estimate the distribution of annual and lifetime Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits for different birth cohorts spanning the birth years from 1900 to 1950. We find differential rates of mortality have had substantial effects in altering the distribution of lifetime benefits in favor of higher income individuals.
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2014-04
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Authors: | Bosworth, Barry P. ; Burke, Kathleen |
Institutions: | Center for Retirement Research (CRR), Boston College |
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