Selected Media Commentary

Job gains for people with disabilities are outpacing those for other groups, thanks to telework (NPR Marketplace)

Advances in Health Care, Technology Open New Job Prospects for the Disabled (The Wall Street Journal, 2/13/2020)

Trump Administration Weighs Tighter Requirements for Disability Payments (The Wall Street Journal, 1/10/2020)

How Elders Can Reinvigorate the Workforce (BBC, 11/19/2019)

Employment for Disabled Workers Is On The Rise (WGBH Under the Radar with Callie Crossley, 3/15/2019)

America’s Hidden Workforce Returns (The Wall Street Journal, 1/26/2019)

Disability Applications Plunge as the Economy Strengthens (The New York Times, 6/19/2018)

Use It or Lose It: Working Longer May Benefit Your Health (The Seattle Times, 2/21/2018)

Retiring (Again and Again) in America (Bloomberg, 9/28/2017)

Working Longer May Benefit Your Health (The New York Times, 3/3/2017)

How To Find A New Job After 50 (WBUR On Point, 11/30/2016)

Why More Women Than Ever Are Putting Off Retirement (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/15/2016)

Why More Women Than Ever Are Putting Off Retirement (Bloomberg, 9/14/2016)

The Disability Program Needs Help Itself (Bloomberg, 7/2/2015)

Gone, but Still Linked to the Home Office (The New York Times, 5/14/2013)

It's Time to See Older Workers as an Asset (Bloomberg, 8/7/2012)

Congress Unwilling to Address Disability Plan’s Shortfall (Bloomberg, 5/29/2012)

Worker’s Climb to Power Pole Shows Demand for Young Employees (Bloomberg, 5/27/20

Selected Press Coverage of Research

Maestas Nicole. “The Return to Work and Women’s Employment Decisions” in Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, Eds. Women Working Longer: Facts and Some Explanations. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press. 2018

PBS Newshour

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Strand Alexander. The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Disability Insurance Program: Evidence from the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks. NBER Working Paper No. 25338. [Preprint] DOI: 10.3386/w25338. 2018.  Revise and Resubmit Journal of Public Economics. Squared Away Blog.

Maestas Nicole. Back to Work: Expectations and Realizations of Work after Retirement. Journal of Human Resources 2010. 45(3):718-748.  The New York Times, The Seattle Times.

Maestas Nicole. “The Return to Work and Women’s Employment Decisions” in Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, Eds. Women Working Longer: Facts and Some Explanations. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press. 2018. The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reuters, The Seattle Times, NerdWallet, Sputnik International, Medical Daily, Syracuse.com, Fortune, Money,  Population Reference Bureau.

Maestas Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter, and Jeffrey B. Wenger, Working Conditions in the United States: Results of the 2015 American Working Conditions Survey. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017.WGBH, WRVO Public Media, The Seattle Times, Fortune, LA Times, US News & World Report, WBUR, Washington Post, Evening Standard, Deutche Welle, Belfast Telegraph, National Safety Council, Human Resources Director Asia

McGarry Brian, Maestas Nicole, Grabowski David. Simplifying the Medicare Plan Finder Tool Could Help Older Adults Choose Lower Cost Part D Plans. Health Affairs 2018. 37(8): 1290-1297. AdvisoryBoard, USNews, PBS, Health Affairs Blog.

Sherry Tisamarie, Sabety Adrienne, Maestas Nicole. Documented Pain Diagnoses in Adults Prescribed Opioids: Results from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2006-2015. Annals of Internal Medicine 2018. 18;169(12):892-894. [Altmetric Attention Score in Top 5%]. The Boston Globe, NBC, CNN, PBS NewsHour, The Harvard Crimson, US Today.

Zhu Wenjia, Chernew Michael, Sherry Tisamarie, Maestas Nicole. Initial Opioid Prescriptions among U.S. Commercially Insured Patients, 2012–2017. New England Journal of Medicine 2019. 380:1043-52. Time, Reuters, The Harvard Gazette, U.S. News and World Report. PBS NewsHour. Gizmodo, KFGO, Pain News Network, The American Journal of Managed Care, MedicalResearch.com, PRNewswire, UPI, Longevity, Health IT Analytics.

Maestas, Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, and David Powell, The Effect of Local Labor Demand Conditions on the Labor Supply Outcomes of Older Americans. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2013. The Wall Street Journal.

Maestas Nicole, Mullen Kathleen J., Powell David. The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth. NBER Working Paper # 22452. 2016. The CT Mirror, Detroit Free Press, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Australian Financial Review, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Vox, MarketWatch

Blogs and Research Briefs

Layton Timothy J., Maestas Nicole, Prinz Daniel, Vabson Boris. Private versus Public Provision of Social Insurance: Evidence from Medicaid. CATO Institute, 2020.

McGarry Brian, Maestas Nicole, Grabowski David. Placing a Premium on Premiums: Assessing the Redesigned Medicare Plan Finder Tool, Health Affairs Blog, 2019.

Layton Timothy J., Maestas Nicole, Prinz Daniel, Vabson Boris, The Bitter(sweet) Pill: The Impacts of Private Provision of Medicaid. VoxEU, 2019.

Maestas Nicole and Armour Phillip. Addressing SSDI’s Looming Insolvency. The RAND Blog, 2014.

Maestas Nicole. Economy Needs Unretired. The RAND Blog, 2012.

Maestas Nicole and Mullen Kathleen J. The SSDI Program’s Impact on Human Capital. The RAND Blog, 2013.

Maestas Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter, and Jeffrey B. Wenger, The American Working Conditions Survey Finds That Nearly Half of Retirees Would Return to Work. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2019.

Maestas Nicole, Kathleen J. Mullen, David Powell, Till von Wachter, and Jeffrey B. Wenger, How Americans Perceive the Workplace: Results from the American Working Conditions Survey. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017.

Hill, Matthew, Maestas Nicole, and Mullen Kathleen J., Effects of Employer Health Insurance on Disability Insurance Claiming. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2014.