The Health and Retirement Study (hrsonline.isr.umich.edu) Summer Workshop is intended to give participants an introduction to the study that will enable them to use the data for research. HRS is a large-scale longitudinal study with more than 20 years of data on the labor force participation and health transitions that individuals undergo toward the end of their work lives and in the years that follow.

Disability Data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a 3-day online (Zoom) workshop intended to give participants an overview of the disability data resources in the HRS. Content lectures delivered by HRS co-investigators and content area experts will cover a range of topics including:

• The various ways that disability, disabling conditions, health, and functioning are measured in the HRS;
• How measures of disability have changed as the survey has evolved;
• ●        How the HRS captures disability benefit receipt in the survey and through and linkage with data from the Social Security Administration;
• ●        How disability-related topics like employer accommodations, assistive technology and personal assistance are measured in the survey.

In addition to presentations on these topics, the workshop will feature labs focused on working with work disability measures in Section M and disability spell data in the RAND HRS.

Students will have the opportunity to present research ideas and receive feedback from the workshop faculty and other students.

The course is designed for those with experience using HRS data or for those who have taken the introductory HRS workshop. The data training portion assumes some familiarity with STATA.