This paper uses the monthly Current Population Survey to study older workers’ transitions out of employment and into retirement before and during the pandemic. It examines whether the effect of the pandemic was particularly acute for workers with certain demographic characteristics and working...

About half of private sector workers in the United States do not participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan at their current job. To fill the gap, a number of state governments around the country have recently launched initiatives to enroll their uncovered workers in Individual...

To curb federal Medicaid costs, recent policy proposals suggest capitation financing, under which program costs are fixed per beneficiary. This study examines to what extent less generous capitated federal subsidies would cause states to decrease Medicaid enrollment. To answer this question, we...