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• Greater Spouse and Survivor Benefits Do Not Change Retirement Decisions

  A working paper that analyzes worker and spouse Social Security incentives and investigates whether an additional dollar of benefit paid to a worker’s spouse or survivor is valued the same as an additional dollar of benefit paid to the worker.

  By David Knapp and Jinkook Lee

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  Evidence Base
• Leveraging Rapid Antigen Tests in School-Aged Children

  To keep schools safe, students enrolled at LAUSD schools were required to show a negative COVID-19 test in the two weeks prior to the first day. Is this a good use of scarce resources?

  By Neeraj Sood, PhD and Rit Shukla

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  Evidence Base > Coronavirus (COVID-19) > COVID Initiative
• How COVID Changed Life in Los Angeles: Recent Findings from a Longitudinal Survey

  Data collected from Los Angeles residents between November 2020 and April 2021 offers insights into views on crime, public transit and other topics compared with pre-pandemic views.

  By Kyla Thomas and Marco Angrisani

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  Evidence Base > Population Health and Disparities
• It is Time for the U.S. to Create a National COVID-19 Vaccination Registry

  Schaeffer Center expert Jakub Hlávka writes that the U.S. is hurting itself by not having a single vaccination registry, which would enable faster reopening of key sectors of the economy as well as of international travel.

  By Jakub Hlávka, PhD

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  Evidence Base > Global Health