Disability, work and retirement -- New age thinking: alternative ways of measuring age, their relationship to labor force participation, government policies, and GDP / John B. Shoven -- Comment / Erzo F. P. Luttmer -- Work disability: the effects of demography, health, and disability insurance /...

We examine respondents in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to observe how their financial situations unfolded as they aged. We focus on low income older adults and follow them over time to identify the factors associated with having low income at baseline and thereafter. We find that (a)...