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status and generally require recipients to be either currently married or to have had a ten-year marriage. The unprecedented … retreat from marriage, particularly among black women, means the distributional impact of these benefits changes dramatically … without a ten-year marriage and thus be ineligible for spouse and widow benefits. We find that the proportion who will not be …
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Micro-simulation of future benefits shows how recommendations by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the deficit commission appointed by President Obama, would lower Social Security benefits for almost all (92 percent) of seniors entitled to benefits in 2070. The cuts would affect all...
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claiming. They use descriptive statistics to highlight differences in program knowledge by respondents’ race/ethnicity as well …
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Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then State programs that provide insurance against these events should...
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increase in the likelihood of being divorced of 11.7 percent at ten years of marriage. For people between the ages of 35 and 55 …
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