Overview
Gina Livermore is a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Her work focuses on disability policy, the economic well-being of disability benefit recipients, and the National Beneficiary Survey (NBS), which she has helped develop and implement across multiple rounds as part of the Ticket to Work program evaluation. She is the lead author of Livermore and Bardos (2014), which documents that 28% of SSDI-only beneficiaries live in poverty and identifies marital status as the strongest predictor of poverty in this population.
Key Contributions / Features
- SSDI beneficiary poverty: Lead author of the first detailed profile of poor SSDI-only beneficiaries using pooled NBS data, documenting the aspiration-employment gap and structural barriers to work among this subgroup. See Livermore and Bardos 2014 — Why Are Some SSDI-Only Beneficiaries Poor.
- NBS methodology: Principal investigator on multiple rounds of the National Beneficiary Survey (2006, 2010 rounds), a nationally representative survey of SSDI and SSI beneficiaries fielded as part of the Ticket to Work evaluation.
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