Dear RSF:

Please join us next Wednesday, March 8th, for Visiting Scholar Lara Shore-Sheppard’s presentation, “Safety Net Generosity, Family Living Arrangements, and the Well-Being of Older Americans.”

Shore-Sheppard is the Kimberly A. ’96 and Robert R. ’62 Henry Professor of Economics and the previous Economics Department Chair at Williams College, where she has been since 2004. She has a PhD from Princeton University in Economics and a BA from Amherst College in Economics and Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her work focuses on the intersection of health and economics, poverty and welfare policy, and wage distribution. She is an NBER Research Associate and has been a visiting scholar at Princeton and the University of Chicago’s Joint Center for Poverty Research. Shore-Sheppard co-edited Vol. 6 (2) of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, which concentrated on the ACA.

At RSF, Shore-Sheppard is examining pre-retirement (ages 50-61) households with multigenerational or skipped-generation living arrangements. She is focusing on how the generosity of safety net programs for families with children, social and economic factors, and the interaction between these factors and safety net generosity impact living arrangements. She is also exploring the extent to which living arrangements in pre-retirement years affect the well-being of older adults.