Tag: Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance
This paper uses archival insurance industry data from the period 1861 to 1941 to shed light on ordinary life insurance, which was the primary old-age savings mechanism of American households in the era before Social Security…
Stacks of research studies document the impact of Social Security’s various benefits on the adults receiving them. But little is known about the children who get Social Security checks every month. That’s starting to change, thanks to Timothy Moore at Purdue University. To advance research on child beneficiaries, he has created a database with mor…