Does Old Age Social Security Help Children? The Impact of Social Security on Grandchild Resources

This project was supported with a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation Trustee Grants in Social, Political, and Economic Inequality, Grant Number G-1808-07222. Opinions expressed only reflect views of the authors. We thank Kristin Butcher, Bahareh Eftekhari, Melanie Guldi, and seminar and conference participants at Amherst College, Atlanta Workshop on Public Policy & Child Well-being, American Economic Association meetings, Baruch College, Census, Colgate University, University of California Davis Poverty Center, University of California Merced, University College London, and the University of Exeter for helpful comments and suggestions. We are grateful to Mina Burns, Beyond Deng, Peter Le, Simran Kalkat, Vanessa Oeien, Daniel Page, Ahna Pearson, Chris Pulliam, Lily Smetzer, Delaney Smith, and Jonathon Zars for excellent research assistance on this and related projects. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.