Rising Ineligibility for Social Security: Drivers and Consequences of Elderly Poverty
Rising Ineligibility for Social Security: Drivers and Consequences of Elderly Poverty
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151506
- ISBN
- 9798384463252
- DDC
- 301
- 서명/저자
- Rising Ineligibility for Social Security: Drivers and Consequences of Elderly Poverty
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Princeton University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 197 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Desmond, Matthew.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Social Security is a bedrock anti-poverty program that provides crucial support to millions of low-income, older Americans. Despite its importance, Social Security is not a universal entitlement but an insurance program that determines eligibility based on life-time earnings in the formal labor market. In recent years, an increasing population of seniors have reached retirement age without qualifying for benefits. I argue the rise in ineligibility is an example of policy drift where Social Security has remained static while a range of socio-economic dislocations have undermined the ability of individuals to qualify. First, I estimate the consequences of incarceration for Social Security eligibility. I draw on a set of administrative data from the state of Wisconsin to evaluate the probability that formerly incarcerated individuals qualify for Social Security using a blend of survival analysis and causal identification strategies. I find that one in four individuals who experienced incarceration will not qualify for Social Security and there are substantial racial disparities in this risk. Second, I investigate a set of interconnected social dislocations that undermined the transition to adulthood for many young urban women. I rely on data from the NLSY-79 to estimate the probability of qualification based on a range of exposures using survival analyses. Coming of age amid high unemployment, childhood poverty, welfare receipt, and the presence of children are notable risk factors for exclusion. Third, I evaluate the probability that seniors without access to Social Security experience material hardships in their finances, nutrition, health care, and housing. I analyze data from the Health and Retirement Study to compare senior's sources of retirement income to their reported experiences of hardships. I find seniors without Social Security are much more likely to experience hardship across a range of domains, individually and simultaneously. I synthesize these results into a portrait of Social Security's emerging weakness in reaching America's most vulnerable seniors. .
- 일반주제명
- Sociology
- 일반주제명
- Aging
- 일반주제명
- American studies
- 키워드
- Elderly poverty
- 키워드
- Social security
- 키워드
- Older Americans
- 기타저자
- Princeton University Sociology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aSocial Security is a bedrock anti-poverty program that provides crucial support to millions of low-income, older Americans. Despite its importance, Social Security is not a universal entitlement but an insurance program that determines eligibility based on life-time earnings in the formal labor market. In recent years, an increasing population of seniors have reached retirement age without qualifying for benefits. I argue the rise in ineligibility is an example of policy drift where Social Security has remained static while a range of socio-economic dislocations have undermined the ability of individuals to qualify. First, I estimate the consequences of incarceration for Social Security eligibility. I draw on a set of administrative data from the state of Wisconsin to evaluate the probability that formerly incarcerated individuals qualify for Social Security using a blend of survival analysis and causal identification strategies. I find that one in four individuals who experienced incarceration will not qualify for Social Security and there are substantial racial disparities in this risk. Second, I investigate a set of interconnected social dislocations that undermined the transition to adulthood for many young urban women. I rely on data from the NLSY-79 to estimate the probability of qualification based on a range of exposures using survival analyses. Coming of age amid high unemployment, childhood poverty, welfare receipt, and the presence of children are notable risk factors for exclusion. Third, I evaluate the probability that seniors without access to Social Security experience material hardships in their finances, nutrition, health care, and housing. I analyze data from the Health and Retirement Study to compare senior's sources of retirement income to their reported experiences of hardships. I find seniors without Social Security are much more likely to experience hardship across a range of domains, individually and simultaneously. I synthesize these results into a portrait of Social Security's emerging weakness in reaching America's most vulnerable seniors. .
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