Events
Fall 2021 Speaker Calendar
September 9: Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut, High Cost Lenders and the Geographic Concentration of Foreclosures
September 23: Erik Hembre, University of Illinois-Chicago, Tax Incentives and Housing Decisions: Investigating Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
September 30: Omer Ali, The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, Survey evidence of racial disparities in the impact of COVID-19
October 7: Michael Collins, UW-Madison, Economic Security of Older Adults during the COVID19 Crisis: Early Data to Inform Research and Policy
October 14: Cody Vaughn, UW-LaCrosse, Medicaid Generosity and Food Hardship Among Children (slides)(paper)
October 21: Andrés Shahidinejad, Ph.D. Student in Economics at University of Chicago, Banking with Credit Unions: Household Credit Consequences
October 28: Jennifer Doleac, Texas A&M University, What Does Retirement Look Like for the Criminal-Justice-Involved Population? Sources of Income in Old Age for People with Criminal Records
November 11: Carter Braxton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Can the unemployed borrow? Implications for public insurance
November 18: Adibah Abdulhadi, Ph.D. Student Economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Selection in Disability Insurance Market
December 2: Angie Ahmadi, American University, Long-Term Care Insurance: Welfare Implications of Health Uncertainty and Suboptimal Timing of Purchase
December 16: Sarah Halpern-Meekin, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Laura Tach, Cornell University, Prime-age men’s labor force disconnection
CFS RDRC Releases Research and Training Opportunities
The Center for Financial Security Retirement and Disability Research Center (CFS RDRC) is excited to announce four different calls for proposals. Our training program offers many competitive funding opportunities. While deadlines may be extended in some cases, the deadline for priority consideration is February 3, 2022. Applicants may apply to multiple opportunities; simply complete an application for each opportunity of interest.
- Junior Scholar Intensive Training (JSIT) Summer Research Workshop : 2022 Call for Applications
- Retirement and Disability Social Policy In-Residence Postdoctoral Fellowship Program : 2022 Call for Applications
- Retirement and Disability Social Policy Extramural Mentored Fellowship Program : 2022 Call for Applications
- IRP Extramural Small Grant on Poverty, Retirement, and Disability Research : 2022 Call for Applications
CFS RDRC Awarded Fourth Year of Funding to Support Research on Financial Vulnerability
U.S. Social Security Administration approves 13 major research projects, investigating a range of social insurance topics, including the Child Tax Credit, the geography of long-term care, the effects of COVID-19 on older adults, and improving trust among those targeted by scams and frauds.
The University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Center for Financial Security (CFS), as part of the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC), has been awarded a fourth year of funding for $2.2 million from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA). One of just four RDRC centers in the country supported by SSA, the UW-Madison center has a particular focus on the financial well-being of economically vulnerable families, older people, people with disabilities, low-wealth households, and children.
“The pandemic has really highlighted the financial vulnerability of many families, and how important safety net programs are to keep people financially stable,” says CFS Faculty Director Dr. J. Michael Collins, Fetzer Family Chair in Consumer and Personal Finance in the School of Human Ecology and Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs. “We are grateful for the Social Security RDRC to be able to support this research, including work related to the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 for disability, retirement and social insurance programs.”
University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security 