RELAB ARTICLE | The stratification economics framework may best clarify the causes of racial health disparities and help to develop policy solutions.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Raising Social Security’s Full Retirement Age leaves all workers with two bad choices: working longer or living on reduced monthly benefits.

WORLDLY PHILOSOPHER | This week's Worldly Philosopher, Kyle Moore, discusses how the disparity in morbidity between Black and White individuals can result in unequal retirement time and benefits.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | Older women face worse age discrimination than men in the labor market.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Policy proposals to cut Social Security benefits by increasing the normal retirement age from 67 to as high as 76 ignore the persistent physical demands older workers face.

RELAB WORKING PAPER | This paper supports the need to focus not only on ensuring Social Security’s solvency for future generations, but building the program’s ability to support all working Americans.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | Proposals to raise the retirement age must anticipate a decrease in Hispanic-Americans longevity.

RELAB POLICY NOTE | This policy note illustrates that the average black American will experience physical limitations before the normal retirement age of 67.

WORLDLY PHILOSOPHER | This week's Worldly Philosopher, Kyle Moore, exposes the disproportionate burden raising the retirement age would put on Black Americans.

POLICY NOTE | In 1950, the United States could claim racial equity in one important respect - both black and white American men who reached age 65 could expect to live to 77.