NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment

Jeffrey Brown, Jeffrey Liebman and David A. Wise, editors

Conference held October 19-22, 2006
Published in June 2009 by University of Chicago Press
© 2009 by the National Bureau of Economic Research

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459 pages
ISBN: 978-0-226-07648-5

Table of Contents

Front matter, table of contents: Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey Liebman, David A. Wise (bibliographic info)

Introduction: Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey Liebman, David A. Wise (bibliographic info)

1. Removing the Disincentives in Social Security for Long Careers: Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven, Sita Nataraj Slavov (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Erzo F. P. Luttmer (bibliographic info)

2. Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability: Alan J. Auerbach, Ronald Lee (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Jeffrey Liebman (bibliographic info)

3. Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts: John Geanakoplos, Stephen P. Zeldes (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Jason Furman (bibliographic info)

4. Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans?: Jeffrey R. Brown, Scott J. Weisbenner (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Brigitte C. Madrian (bibliographic info)

5. The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Jeffrey R. Brown (bibliographic info)

6. Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform: Martin Feldstein (bibliographic info)
       Comment: David W. Wilcox (bibliographic info)

7. Pricing Personal Account Benefit Guarantees: A Simplified Approach: Andrew Biggs, Clark Burdick, Kent Smetters (bibliographic info)
       Comment: George G. Pennacchi (bibliographic info)

8. Reducing Social Security PRA Risk at the Individual Level: Life-Cycle Funds and No-Loss Strategies: James M. Poterba, Joshua Rauh, Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Douglas W. Elmendorf (bibliographic info)

9. Changing Progresivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security: Andrew A. Samwick (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Michael Hurd (bibliographic info)

10. The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows: James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise (bibliographic info)
       Comment: Jonathan Skinner (bibliographic info)

11. Demographic Change, Relative Factor Prices, International Capital Flows, and Their Differential Effects on the Welfare of Generations : Alexander Ludwig, Dirk Krüger, Axel Börsch-Supan (bibliographic info)
       Comment: James M. Poterba (bibliographic info)

12. Is the U.S. Population Behaving Healthier?: David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser, Allison B. Rosen (bibliographic info)
       Comment: James P. Smith (bibliographic info)

 
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