%0 Report %D 2019 %T Modeling Income in the Near Term 8 and 2014 %A Melissa Favreault %A Karen E. Smith %K Finance %K Income %X Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT) is a dynamic microsimulation model developed by the Social Security Administration to facilitate analysis of proposals to change Social Security benefits and payroll taxes. This primer describes MINT’s development history. It then details the model’s starting sample and the specification of its demographic and economic aging modules, including the calculators that compute various benefits and taxes. It also provides information about previous analyses that have relied on MINT. %I Urban Institute %G eng %U https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/100965/modeling_income_in_the_near_term_8_and_2014_primer.pdf %0 Book Section %B Social Security and the Family: Addressing Unmet Needs in an Underfunded System %D 2002 %T The Family, Social Security, and the Retirement Decision %A Melissa Favreault %A Richard W. Johnson %E Melissa Favreault %E Sammartino, F. %E Steuerle, C. Eugene %K Adult children %K Social Security %B Social Security and the Family: Addressing Unmet Needs in an Underfunded System %I The Urban Institute Press %C Washington, DC %P 295-329 %G eng %4 Social Security/Family transfers, structure %$ 8660 %! The Family, Social Security, and the Retirement Decision %0 Report %D 2002 %T Modeling Income in the Near Term: Revised Projections of Retirement Income Through 2020 for the 1931-1960 Birth Cohorts %A Toder, Eric %A Thompson, Lawrence H. %A Melissa Favreault %A Richard W. Johnson %A Perese, Kevin %A Ratcliffe, Caroline %A Karen E. Smith %A Cori E. Uccello %A Timothy A Waidmann %A Berk, Jillian %A Woldemariam, Romina %A Gary T. Burtless %A Claudia R Sahm %A Douglas A. Wolf %K Disabilities %K Net Worth and Assets %K Pensions %K Social Security %X The Division of Policy Evaluation (DPE) of the Social Security Administration (SSA) has entered into two contracts with the Urban Institute to help it develop a new tool for analyzing the distributional consequences of Social Security reform proposals. The first, awarded in 1998, led to the development of Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT), a tool for simulating the retirement incomes of members of the Baby Boom and neighboring cohorts. The second, awarded in 2000, was to expand and improve on the first version of MINT. In all phases of the project, members of the research staff at SSA/DPE collaborated closely with the contractors. The Brookings Institution served as a subcontractor to the Urban Institute under both contracts and the RAND Corporation participated in the development of the initial version of MINT under a separate contract. This report describes the work of the researchers at Urban and Brookings under the second contract. %B Urban Institute Research Report %I The Urban Institute %C Washington, D.C. %G eng %U http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/410609_ModelingIncome.pdf %L wp_2002/Toder_etal_ModelingIncome.pdf %4 Earnings and Benefits File/Disability/Disability/Pensions/Wealth %$ 14212