Recent Work
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Medicare Part D Beneficiaries’ Self-reported Barriers to Switching Plans and Making Plan Comparisons at AllÂ
Over half of Medicare beneficiaries in stand-alone Part D plans kept their coverage without comparing plans during the last enrollment period, and many reported not knowing how to switch plans.
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How Can We Improve the Public’s Understanding of Social Security Rules? An Information Experiment on the Retirement Earnings Test
Can better information improve the public’s understanding of the retirement earnings test? Even a very simple information campaign can reduce misunderstandings by between 30% and 50%.
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The Impact of Changing Three Little Phrases on Americans’ Social Security Decision-Making
This post discusses findings from an experiment to improve Social Security literacy and decision-making amongst American adults. Rather than provide new information, researchers intervened by simply renaming a few critical terms in existing information about Social Security retirement benefits.
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No Regrets: Older Adults Reflect on their Social Security Claiming Decisions
This post discusses findings from a qualitative study on older adults’ ex post assessment of their decision of when to claim their Social Security retirement benefit.
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Our Outbreaks
The USC Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) conducted a survey on public views of the Ebola outbreak through its Understanding America Study (UAS) in collaboration with Dr. John Romley of USC’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.
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