Professeure invitée au CES – Courtney Coile, Professeure d’Économie à Wellesley College, NBER

Le CES a le plaisir d’avoir d’accueillir Courtney Coile, Professeure d’Économie à Wellesley Collège, aux Etats-Unis, jusqu’au 30 mars. Courtney Coile co-dirige le centre de recherche sur les retraites et l’invalidité du NBER. Elle est aussi membre du Comité sur la population à l’Académie des sciences américaine.

Un séminaire se tiendra le mercredi 29 mars à 12h30 en salle 114.

Titre: « How Post-Secondary Education Affects Earnings, Disability, and Longevity: evidence from the Social Security Student Benefit Program »

Abstract:
We estimate the causal effect of post-secondary education on long-term outcomes using variation in educational attainment arising from changes in the Social Security Student Benefit Program (SBP). This program provided substantial cash benefits through age 22 to children of deceased, disabled, or retired Social Security beneficiaries pursuing secondary or post-secondary education, serving 750,000 students at its peak. Starting in 1982, benefits for post-secondary students were phased out and eliminated. Using administrative data from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and linked American Community Survey (ACS)-SSA data, we find that cohorts with reduced access to student benefits had lower educational attainment and lower mid-life earnings. Our ongoing work examines disability benefit receipt and mortality effects and evaluates the SBP using the Marginal Value of Public Funds (MVPF) approach.