NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Public Economics

National Government Expenditures and Related Policies


2009
w15531 Thomas Dee
Brian Jacob

The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement

w15491 Peter H. Lindert
Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance

w15488 Robert A. Moffitt
John Karl Scholz

Trends in the Level and Distribution of Income Support

w15465 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi
Esteban F. Klor

The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism

w15464 Valerie A. Ramey
Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It's All in the Timing

w15435 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population

w15392 Florian Heiss
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

Regulation of private health insurance markets: Lessons from enrollment, plan type choice, and adverse selection in Medicare Part D

w15387 David Deming
Susan Dynarski

Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor

w15373 Robert S. Pindyck
Neng Wang

The Economic and Policy Consequences of Catastrophes

w15371 Ronen Avraham
Leemore S. Dafny
Max M. Schanzenbach

The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums

w15369 Robert J. Barro
Charles J. Redlick

Macroeconomic Effects from Government Purchases and Taxes

w15311 William N. Evans
Timothy J. Moore

The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt

w15290 Martin S. Feldstein
Economic Conditions and U.S. National Security in the 1930s and Today

w15224 David Albouy
Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds

w15181 Bruce D. Meyer
Wallace K. C. Mok
James X. Sullivan

The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences

w15170 John Geanakoplos
Stephen P. Zeldes

Market Valuation of Accrued Social Security Benefits

w15153 Eric M. Leeper
Todd B. Walker
Shu-Chun Susan Yang

Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus in the Short and Long Runs

w15146 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
Krishna B. Kumar
Neeraj Sood

Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D

w15108 Olivia S. Mitchell
Gary R. Mottola
Stephen P. Utkus
Takeshi Yamaguchi

Default, Framing and Spillover Effects: The Case of Lifecycle Funds in 401(k) Plans

w15105 Dalton Conley
Jennifer A. Heerwig

The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality: Estimates from the Vietnam-era Draft Lottery

w15095 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

War and Relatedness

w15079 Jingjing Chai
Wolfram Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

w15076 Erling Barth
Karl O. Moene

The Equality Multiplier

w15070 Jeffrey R. Brown
Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton

Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net?

w15056 Katherine Ho
Matthew Neidell

Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists

w14970 Adrian Stoian
Price V. Fishback

Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era

w14886 Kathleen J. Mullen
Richard G. Frank
Meredith B. Rosenthal

Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers

w14865 Jonathan Skinner
Douglas Staiger

Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

w14855 Patrick Bajari
Gregory Lewis

Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence

w14851 Philippe Aghion
Mathias Dewatripont
Caroline M. Hoxby
Andreu Mas-Colell
André Sapir

The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.

w14801 Christopher Blattman
Edward Miguel

Civil War

w14781 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen
Brigham R. Frandsen

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

w14744 Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

w14738 Alon Cohen
Assaf Razin
Efraim Sadka

The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State

w14702 Marco Manacorda
Edward Miguel
Andrea Vigorito

Government Transfers and Political Support

w14682 Alan J. Auerbach
Ronald Lee

Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems

w14667 Michael Baker
Jonathan Gruber
Kevin S. Milligan

Retirement Income Security and Well-Being in Canada

w14647 Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan
David A. Wise

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary


2008
w14606 Eli Berman
Jacob N. Shapiro
Joseph H. Felter

Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

w14599 Gordon Dahl
Lance Lochner

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

w14564 Jonah E. Rockoff
Lesley J. Turner

Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

w14560 Robert J. Gordon
Did Economics Cause World War II?

w14551 Andrew Mountford
Harald Uhlig

What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?

w14538 Justine S. Hastings
Lydia Tejeda-Ashton

Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

w14540 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
David G. Seif

Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities

w14498 Samuel H. Preston
Caroline Sten Hartnett

The Future of American Fertility

w14466 Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman

Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women

w14427 Alexander W. Blocker
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Stephen A. Ross

The True Cost of Social Security

w14343 Robert Novy-Marx
Joshua D. Rauh

The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises

w14332 Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Managing Contribution and Capital Market Risk in a Funded Public Defined Benefit Plan: Impact of CVaR Cost Constraints

w14325 V. Kerry Smith
Carol Mansfield
Laurel Clayton

Valuing a Homeland Security Policy: Countermeasures for the Threats from Shoulder Mounted Missiles

w14301 Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Wojciech Kopczuk

Transfer Program Complexity and the Take Up of Social Benefits

w14306 Douglas Almond
Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

w14297 Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis
Muna Husain

School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity

w14296 Claudio Lucarelli
Jeffrey Prince
Kosali Simon

Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regulation in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans

w14231 John B. Shoven
Gopi Shah Goda

Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation

w14146 Susan Guthrie
James R. Hines
Jr.

U.S. Defense Contracts During the Tax Expenditure Battles of the 1980s

w14105 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends

w14104 John Cawley
John R. Moran
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans

w14094 Ian Ayres
Barry J. Nalebuff

Life-cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk

w14131 Naci H. Mocan
Vengeance

w14078 Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott
Cagri Kumru

Managing Public Investment Funds: Best Practices and New Challenges

w14055 Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Michael Z. Stamos

Asset Allocation and Location over the Life Cycle with Survival-Contingent Payouts

w14038 Jordan D. Matsudaira
Rebecca M. Blank

The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families

w14009 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Gautier Duflos

Pharmaceutical innovation and the longevity of Australians: a first look

w13995 David Y. Albouy
The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation

w13979 John Geanakoplos
Stephen P. Zeldes

Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts

w13966 Francisco J. Gomes
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Luis M. Viceira

Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds

w13956 David A. Jaeger
Esteban F. Klor
Sami H. Miaari
M. Daniele Paserman

The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

w13917 Mark Duggan
Fiona Scott Morton

The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization

w13881 Sherry A. Glied
Health Care Financing, Efficiency, and Equity

w13878 James M. Snyder
Jr.
David Strömberg

Press Coverage and Political Accountability

w13877 Douglas Almond
Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays

w13857 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
Neeraj Sood

The Impact of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical R&D

w13785 Radha Iyengar
Lindsay Sabik
Cindy Southworth
Sarah Tucker
Cynthia Fraser

50,000 People a Day: The Use of Federally Funded Services for Intimate Partner Violence

w13748 Jeffrey R. Brown
Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan
Marian V. Wrobel

Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle

w13729 Martin S. Feldstein
Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States

w13725 Eli Berman
David D. Laitin

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model


2007
w13627 Florian Heiss
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans

w13668 David Card
Carlos Dobkin
Nicole Maestas

Does Medicare Save Lives?

w13557 Janet Currie
Firouz Gahvari

Transfers in Cash and In Kind: Theory Meets the Data

w13548 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending

w13539 David Cutler
Winnie Fung
Michael Kremer
Monica Singhal
Tom Vogl

Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

w13537 Jeffrey R. Brown
Rational and Behavioral Perspectives on the Role of Annuities in Retirement Planning

w13527 Philippe Belley
Lance Lochner

The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

w13519 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

w13501 Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance

w13359 Howard C. Kunreuther
Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan

Evaluating The Effectiveness of Terrorism Risk Financing Solutions

w13458 Michael Greenstone
Is the "Surge" Working? Some New Facts

w13443 Julie Berry Cullen
Brian A. Jacob

Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries

w13400 Pierre-Richard Agénor
Joshua Aizenman

Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

w13383 Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

A Tax on Work for the Elderly: Medicare as a Secondary Payer

w13382 Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

Social Security and the Timing of Divorce

w13381 James Poterba
Steven Venti
David A. Wise

The Changing Landscape of Pensions in the United States

w13379 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type

w13335 Sun Go
Peter H. Lindert

The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools

w13319 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke

To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

w13284 Eduardo Engel
Ronald Fischer
Alexander Galetovic

The Basic Public Finance of Public-Private Partnerships

w13273 Charles Yuji Horioka
Wataru Suzuki
Tatsuo Hatta

Aging, Saving, and Public Pensions in Japan

w13200 Marco Bassetto
Vadym Lepetyuk

Government Investment and the European Stability and Growth Pact

w13169 Jeffrey R. Brown
Nellie Liang
Scott Weisbenner

Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice: Behavioral Lessons from 401(k) Plans

w13117 Jesse Rothstein
Cecilia Elena Rouse

Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

w13110 Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

Removing the Disincentives in Social Security for Long Careers

w13059 Andrew A. Samwick
Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security

w13016 James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov

The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

w13008 Nicola Persico
José Carlos Rodríguez-Pueblita
Dan Silverman

Factions and Political Competition

w12958 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies

w12946 Hans-Werner Sinn
The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization

w12942 Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Michael Z. Stamos

Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement

w12859 Francisco J. Gomes
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Luis M. Viceira

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

w12854 Elizabeth M. Caucutt
Thomas F. Cooley
Nezih Guner

The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security

w12825 Ryan S. Johnson
Shawn Kantor
Price V. Fishback

Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression


2006
w12805 Alan J. Auerbach
Ronald Lee

Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability

w12801 Joseph Cullen
Price V. Fishback

Did Big Government's Largesse Help the Locals? The Implications of WWII Spending for Local Economic Activity, 1939-1958

w12800 Edith Sand
Assaf Razin

Immigration and the Survival of Social Security: A Political Economy Model

w12736 Martin S. Feldstein
The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets: Implications for Immigration and Other Policies

w12733 John F. Cogan
R. Glenn Hubbard
Daniel P. Kessler

Evaluating Effects of Tax Preferences on Health Care Spending and Federal Revenues

w12696 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Ben Marx
Pietro Rizza

Americans' Dependency on Social Security

w12678 Alberto Abadie
Sofia Dermisi

Is Terrorism Eroding Agglomeration Economies in Central Business Districts? Lessons from the Office Real Estate Market in Downtown Chicago

w12639 David Card
Raj Chetty
Andrea Weber

Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market

w12596 Florian Hoffmann
Philip Oreopoulos

Professor Qualities and Student Achievement

w12582 W. Kip Viscusi
Richard J. Zeckhauser

National Survey Evidence on Disasters and Relief: Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, and Compassion

w12559 Courtney C. Coile
Phillip B. Levine

Labor Market Shocks and Retirement: Do Government Programs Matter?

w12554 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones

Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles

w12536 Jeffrey R. Brown
Norma B. Coe
Amy Finkelstein

Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey

w12471 Philip J. Cook
Robert MacCoun
Clara Muschkin
Jacob Vigdor

Should Sixth Grade be in Elementary or Middle School? An Analysis of Grade Configuration and Student Behavior

w12467 Raj Chetty
Adam Szeidl

Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences

w12452 Louis Kaplow
Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply

w12438 Leemore Dafny
David Dranove

Regulatory Exploitation and the Market for Corporate Controls

w12436 David Autor
Mark Duggan

The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding

w12431 Yum K. Kwan
The Direct Substitution Between Government and Private Consumption in East Asia

w12427 Tadashi Fukui
Yasushi Iwamoto

Policy Options for Financing the Future Health and Long-Term Care Costs in Japan

w12424 John Bound
Sarah Turner

Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment

w12401 Alberto Arenas de Mesa
David Bravo
Jere R. Behrman
Olivia S. Mitchell
Petra E. Todd

The Chilean Pension Reform Turns 25: Lessons From the Social Protection Survey

w12323 Mark Duggan
Robert Rosenheck
Perry Singleton

Federal Policy and the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence for the VA's Disability Compensation Program

w12302 Wilson Au-Yeung
Jason McDonald
Amanda Sayegh

Australian Government Balance Sheet Management

w12284 Louis Kaplow
Optimal Income Transfers

w12255 Carolyn Kousky
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Private Investment and Government Protection

w12254 Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein

Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries: Evidence From the Health Care Sector

w12205 Amy Finkelstein
James Poterba
Casey Rothschild

Redistribution by Insurance Market Regulation: Analyzing a Ban on Gender-Based Retirement Annuities

w12179 Elizabeth Cascio
Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

w12147 David N. Weil
Population Aging

w12140 Heinrich Hock
David N. Weil

The Dynamics of the Age Structure, Dependency, and Consumption

w12133 James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint

w12106 Patrick Bayer
Nathaniel Keohane
Christopher Timmins

Migration and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality

w12092 Steven J. Davis
Kevin M. Murphy
Robert H. Topel

War in Iraq versus Containment

w12069 Howard Kunreuther
Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Looking Beyond TRIA: A Clinical Examination of Potential Terrorism Loss Sharing

w12054 Linda Bilmes
Joseph Stiglitz

The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict

w12051 Patrick Bajari
Stephanie Houghton
Steve Tadelis

Bidding for Incomplete Contracts: An Empirical Analysis

w11951 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Sabina Ohri

Health Insurance Take-up by the Near Elderly

w11949 Daron Acemoglu
David Cutler
Amy Finkelstein
Joshua Linn

Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation?


2005
w11877 Peter Diamond
Pensions for an Aging Population

w11833 Christian Hagist
Laurence Kotlikoff

Who's Going Broke? Comparing Growth in Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries

w11811 Mark Duggan
Perry Singleton
Jae Song

Aching to Retire? The Rise in the Full Retirement Age and its Impact on the Disability Rolls

w11740 Eli Berman
David Laitin

Hard Targets: Theory and Evidence on Suicide Attacks

w11668 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China

w11663 Eli Berman
Laurence R. Iannaccone

Religious Extremism: The Good, The Bad, and The Deadly

w11626 Marianne P. Bitler
Jonah B. Gelbach
Hilary W. Hoynes

Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project

w11619 Amy Finkelstein
The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare

w11609 Amy Finkelstein
Robin McKnight

What Did Medicare Do (And Was It Worth It)?

w11565 Reuven Glick
Alan M. Taylor

Collateral Damage: Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War

w11406 Andrew G. Biggs
Jeffrey R. Brown
Glenn Springstead

Alternative Methods of Price Indexing Social Security: Implications for Benefits and System Financing

w11386 Raj Chetty
A General Formula for the Optimal Level of Social Insurance

w11300 Robert J. Shiller
The Life-Cycle Personal Accounts Proposal for Social Security: A Review

w11250 Martin Feldstein
Rethinking Social Insurance

w11185 Mikhail Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski

Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Insurance Markets

w11109 Mark G. Duggan
William N. Evans

Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation: A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments

w11084 Martin Feldstein
Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform


2004
w10989 Jeffrey R. Brown
Amy Finkelstein

The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market

w10988 Christian Broda
David E. Weinstein

Happy News from the Dismal Science: Reassessing the Japanese Fiscal Policy and Sustainability

w10964 Zhou Yang
Donna B. Gilleskie
Edward C. Norton

Prescription Drugs, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics

w10931 Ann Dryden Witte
Marisol Trowbridge

The Structure of Early Care and Education in the United States: Historical Evolution and International Comparisons

w10930 Mark Duggan
Fiona Scott Morton

The Distortionary Effects of Government Procurement: Evidence from Medicaid Prescription Drug Purchasing

w10917 Ronald Lee
Timothy Miller
Michael Anderson

Stochastic Infinite Horizon Forecasts for Social Security and Related Studies

w10905 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

The social Security Retirement Earnings Test, Retirement and Benefit Claiming

w10882 Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott
Satoshi Shimizutani

Aged-Care Support in Japan: Perspectives and Challenges

w10876 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Minimum Hours Constraints, Job Requirements and Retirement

w10870 Howard Kunreuther
Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Policy Watch: Challenges for Terrorism Risk Insurance in the United States

w10859 Alberto Abadie
Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism

w10798 Hans-Werner Sinn
Migration, Social Standards and Replacement Incomes: How to Protect Low-income Workers in the Industrialized Countries Against the Forces of Globalization and Market Integration

w10694 Alan J. Auerbach
Budget Windows, Sunsets, and Fiscal Control

w10693 Alan J. Auerbach
Young Jun Chun
Ilho Yoo

The Fiscal Burden of Korean Reunification: A Generational Accounting Approach

w10601 Herschel I. Grossman
Peace and War in Territorial Disputes

w10552 Douglas Almond
Kenneth Y. Chay
David S. Lee

The Costs of Low Birth Weight

w10512 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence Kotlikoff

The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World's Demographic Transition

w10486 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Plan Design and 401(k) Savings Outcomes

w10444 Takashi Oshio
Social Security and Trust Fund Management

w10306 Eric Edmonds
Kristin Mammen
Douglas L. Miller

Rearranging the Family? Income Support and Elderly Living Arrangements in a Low Income Country

w10305 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Personal Accounts and Family Retirement


2003
w10180 Herschel I. Grossman
Choosing Between Peace and War

w10030 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President's Commision to Strengthen Social Security

w9983 Alan J. Auerbach
Young Jun Chun

Generational Accounting in Korea

w9845 Kent Smetters
Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?

w9798 Jeff Dominitz
Charles F. Manski
Jordan Heinz

"Will Social Security Be There For You?": How Americans Perceive Their Benefits

w9725 Manuel Trajtenberg
Defense R&D Policy in the Anti-terrorist Era

w9691 Casey B. Mulligan
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Social Security, Retirement, and the Single-Mindedness of the Electorate

w9652 Brian A. Jacob
Public Housing, Housing Vouchers and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago

w9626 Mark G. Duggan
Does Medicaid Pay Too Much for Prescription Drugs? A Case Study of Atypical Anti-Psychotics

w9496 Courtney Coile
Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions

w9410 Dirk Krueger
Felix Kubler

Pareto Improving Social Security Reform when Financial Markets are Incomplete?


2002
w9367 Robert Dekle
The Deteriorating Fiscal Situation and an Aging Population

w9361 William D. Nordhaus
The Economic Consequences of a War in Iraq

w9256 Jeffrey R. Brown
Redistribution and Insurance: Mandatory Annuitization with Mortality Heterogeneity

w9197 Stephen E. Snyder
William N. Evans

The Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence from the Social Security Notch

w9183 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

The Social Security Early Entitlement Age in a Structural Model of Retirement and Wealth

w9135 Melvin Stephens Jr.
'3rd of tha Month': Do Social Security Recipients Smooth Consumption Between Checks?

w9093 Melissa Schettini Kearney
Is There an Effect of Incremental Welfare Benefits on Fertility Behavior? A Look at the Family Cap

w9091 Mark Duggan
Does Contracting Out Increase the Efficiency of Government Programs? Evidence from Medicaid HMOs

w9045 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

The New Social Security Commission Personal Accounts: Where Is the Investment Principal?

w9014 Alan B. Krueger
Bruce D. Meyer

Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance

w8958 Casey B. Mulligan
Ricard Gil
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Social Security and Democracy

w8924 Sebastian Edwards
Alejandra Cox Edwards

Social Security Privatization Reform and Labor Markets: The Case of Chile

w8772 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Behavior Within the Family

w8718 Jeff Dominitz
Charles F. Manski
Jordan Heinz

Social Security Expectations and Retirement Savings Decisions


2001
w8655 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
Andrew Metrick

Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance

w8625 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Redistribution in the Current U.S. Social Security System

w8592 Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick

Potential Paths of Social Security Reform

w8531 Joseph P. Newhouse
Medicare Policy in the 1990s

w8503 Hans-Werner Sinn
Silke Uebelmesser

When Will the Germans Get Trapped in their Pension System?

w8488 Douglas W. Elmendorf
Jeffrey B. Liebman
David W. Wilcox

Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990s

w8487 Martin Feldstein
The Future of Social Security Pensions in Europe

w8455 David Cutler
Jonathan Gruber

Health Policy in the Clinton Era: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

w8451 Martin Feldstein
Jeffrey B. Liebman

Social Security

w8437 Rebecca M. Blank
David T. Ellwood

The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor

w8406 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Imperfect Knowledge, Retirement and Saving

w8395 Jonathan Skinner
Elliott Fisher
John E. Wennberg

The Efficiency of Medicare

w8384 Katherine Baicker
Extensive or Intensive Generosity? The Price and Income Effects of Federal Grants

w8364 Hans-Werner Sinn
Social Dumping in the Transformation Process?

w8336 David H. Autor
Mark G. Duggan

The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment

w8283 Price V. Fishback
William C. Horrace
Shawn Kantor

Do Federal Programs Affect Internal Migration? The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression

w8229 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement and Wealth

w8204 Ann Dryden Witte
Robert Witt

What We Spend and What We Get: Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention

w8123 Avi Dor
Administered Prices and Suboptimal Prevention: Evidence from the Medicare Dialysis Program

w8108 Price V. Fishback
William C. Horrace
Shawn Kantor

The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Local Economic Activity: An Examination of Retail Sales, 1929-1939

w8103 Jonathan Gruber
David Wise

An International Perspective on Policies for an Aging Society

w8074 Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova

Individual Risk in an Investment-Based Social Security System


2000
w8061 Esther Duflo
Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation in South Africa

w8021 Jonathan Gruber
Michael Lettau

How Elastic is the Firm's Demand for Health Insurance?

w7963 Olivia S. Mitchell
John W.R. Phillips

Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions

w7923 Jonathan Gruber
Peter Orszag

Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?

w7861 Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova

Accumulated Pension Collars: A Market Approach to Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

w7830 Courtney Coile
Jonathan Gruber

Social Security and Retirement

w7829 Jonathan Gruber
Medicaid

w7770 Assar Lindbeck
Pensions and Contemporary Socioeconomic Change

w7767 Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick

Allocating Payroll Tax Revenue to Personal Retirement Accounts to Maintain Social Security Benefits and the Payroll Tax Rate

w7739 Andrew B. Abel
The Effects of Investing Social Security Funds in the Stock Market When Fixed Costs Prevent Some Households from Holding Stocks

w7686 Jay Bhattacharya
Janet Currie

Youths at Nutritional Risk: Malnourished or Misnourished?

w7651 Courtney Coile
Jonathan Gruber

Social Security Incentives for Retirement

w7597 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?

w7592 Hans-Werner Sinn
Why a Funded Pension System is Useful and Why It is Not Useful

w7588 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study

w7570 Angus Deaton
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Christina Paxson

Social Security and Inequality over the Life Cycle

w7568 Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton
Thomas Glass

Long Run Effects of Social Security Reform Proposals on Lifetime Progressivity

w7560 Jeffrey R. Brown
Differential Mortality and the Value of Individual Account Retirement Annuities

w7555 Leemore Dafny
Jonathan Gruber

Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations

w7526 Hugo Benitez-Silva
Moshe Buchinsky
Hiu Man Chan
Sofia Cheidvasser
John Rust

How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?

w7520 Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton
Thomas Glass

The Progressivity of Social Security

w7492 Martin Feldstein
Jeffrey Liebman

The Distributional Effects of an Investment-Based Social Security System


1999
w7433 Roger H. Gordon
Young Lee

Do Taxes Affect Corporate Debt Policy? Evidence from US Corporate Tax Return Data

w7362 Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans: How Bad Can It Get?

w7318 Courtney Coile
Peter Diamond
Jonathan Gruber
Alain Jousten

Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits

w7304 Hans-Werner Sinn
The Crisis of Germany's Pension Insurance System and How It Can Be Resolved

w7268 Jeffrey R. Brown
Olivia S. Mitchell
James M. Poterba
Mark J. Warshawsky

Taxing Retirement Income: Nonqualified Annuities and Distributions from Qualified Accounts

w7200 Leora Friedberg
The Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test

w7199 Jeffrey R. Brown
James M. Poterba

Joint Life Annuities and Annuity Demand by Married Couples

w7193 Jeffrey R. Brown
Are the Elderly Really Over-Annuitized? New Evidence on Life Insurance and Bequests

w7168 Amy Finkelstein
James Poterba

Selection Effects in the Market for Individual Annuities: New Evidence from the United Kingdom

w7138 Michael Baker
The Retirement Behavior of Married Couples: Evidence from the Spouse's Allowance

w7119 Casey B. Mulligan
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Social Security in Theory and Practice (II): Efficiency Theories, Narrative Theories, and Implications for Reform

w7118 Casey B. Mulligan
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Social Security in Theory and Practice (I): Facts and Political Theories

w7117 Casey B. Mulligan
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Gerontocracy, Retirement, and Social Security

w7103 Peter Diamond
Jean Geanakoplos

Social Security Investment in Equities I: Linear Case

w7065 Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova

The Economics of Bequests in Pensions and Social Security

w7016 Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova
Andrew Samwick

The Transition to Investment-Based Social Security when Portfolio Returns and Capital Profitability are Uncertain

w6995 Robert A. Moffitt
Demographic Change and Public Assistance Programs

w6540 Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick

Maintaining Social Security Benefits and Tax Rates through Personal Retirement Accounts: An Update Based on the 1998 Social Security Trustees Report

w5762 James M. Poterba
David A. Wise

Individual Financial Decisions in Retirement Saving Plans and The Provision of Resources for Retirement

w6917 Martin Feldstein
Prefunding Medicare

w6910 Julie Lee
Mark McClellan
Jonathan Skinner

The Distributional Effects of Medicare

w6881 James J. Heckman
Lance Lochner
Christopher Taber

General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies


1998
w6860 Martin Feldstein
Daniel Altman

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts

w6839 Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova

Individual Risk and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in an Investment-Based Social Security Program

w6832 Marianne Bertrand
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Sendhil Mullainathan

Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

w6805 David Neumark
Elizabeth Powers

Welfare for the Elderly: The Effects of SSI on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply

w6798 Ann Dryden Witte
Magaly Queralt
Tasneem Chipty
Harriet Griesinger

Unintended Consequences? Welfare Reform and the Working Poor

w6794 Martin Feldstein
Social Security Pension Reform in China

w6780 Axel Borsch-Supan
Incentive Effects of Social Security on Labor Force Participation: Evidence in Germany and Across Europe

w6719 Peter Diamond
The Economics of Social Security Reform

w6641 Robert J. Shiller
Social Security and Institutions for Intergenerational, Intragenerational, and International Risk Sharing

w6610 Hans-Werner Sinn
The Pay-As-You-Go Pension System as a Fertility Insurance and Enforcement Device

w6603 Steven Caldwell
Melissa Favreault
Alla Gantman
Jagadeesh Gokhale
Thomas Johnson

Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans

w6601 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Allocation of Publically-Funded Biomedical Research

w6596 Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Medicare from the Perspective of Generational Accounting

w6548 Leora Friedberg
The Effect of Old Age Assistance on Retirement

w6534 Andrew A. Samwick
New Evidence on Pensions, Social Security, and the Timing of Retirement

w6532 Austan Goolsbee
Does Government R&D Policy Mainly Benefit Scientists and Engineers?

w6430 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Kent A. Smetters
Jan Walliser

Opting Out of Social Security and Adverse Selection

w6428 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Kent A. Smetters
Jan Walliser

Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity


1997
w6305 Janet Currie
Aaron Yelowitz

Are Public Housing Projects Good for Kids?

w6229 Hans-Werner Sinn
The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-As-You-Go Pension System: A Proposal for a Partial Transition to a Funded System

w6219 Andrew A. Samwick
Discount Rate Heterogeneity and Social Security Reform

w6208 Patricia M. Anderson
Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Trends in Male Labor Force Participation And Retirement: Some Evidence On The Role Of Pensions And Social Security In The 1970's And 1980's

w5008 Louis Kaplow
Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes

w6178 Olivia S. Mitchell
James F. Moore

Retirement Wealth Accumulation and Decumulation: New Developments and Outstanding Opportunities

w6149 Martin Feldstein
Transition to a Fully Funded Pension System: Five Economic Issues

w6141 Dani Rodrik
What Drives Public Employment?

w6139 Aaron Yelowitz
Why Did the SSI-Disabled Program Grow So Much? Disentangling the Effect of Medicaid

w6097 Peter Diamond
Jonathan Gruber

Social Security and Retirement in the U.S.

w5413 Martin Feldstein
The Missing Piece in Policy Analysis: Social Security Reform

w6055 Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick

The Economics of Prefunding Social Security and Medicare Benefits

w6041 Jonathan Gruber
Aaron Yelowitz

Public Health Insurance and Private Savings

w6040 Maryann P. Feldman
Frank R. Lichtenberg

The Impact and Organization of Publicly-Funded Research and Development in the European Community

w5995 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

The Determinants of Public Education Expenditures: Evidence from the States, 1950-1990

w5949 Jeffrey A. Miron
David N. Weil

The Genesis and Evolution of Social Security


1996
w5776 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Simulating the Privatization of Social Security in General Equilibrium

w5761 Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick

The Transition Path in Privatizing Social Security

w5601 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Effect of New Political Administration on Federal Government Productivity and Employment

w5147 Jonathan Gruber
James Poterba

Tax Subsidies to Employer-Provided Health Insurance

w4856 Hans-Werner Sinn
A Theory of the Welfare State

w5512 Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen P. Zeldes

"Social Security Privatization: A Structure for Analysis"

w5506 M. Ishaq Nadiri
Seongjun Kim

R&D, Production Structure and Productivity Growth: A Comparison of the US, Japanese and Korean Manufacturing Sectors


1995
w5387 William C. Horrace
Peter Schmidt
Ann Dryden Witte

Sampling Errors and Confidence Intervals for Order Statistics: Implementing the Family Support Act

w4916 James M. Poterba
Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why?

w5362 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Privatizing Social Security: First Round Effects of a Generic, VoluntaryPrivatized U.S. Social Security System

w5281 Martin Feldstein
Would Privatizing Social Security Raise Economic Welfare?

w5252 Eric M. Engen
Jonathan Gruber

Unemployment Insurance and Precautionary Saving

w5228 Jonathan Gruber
Brigitte C. Madrian

Non-Employment and Health Insurance Coverage

w5138 Kenneth H. Brown
Shane M. Greenstein

How Much Better is Bigger, Faster & Cheaper? Buyer Benefits from Innovation in Mainframe Computers in the 1980s

w4874 Brandice J. Canes
Harvey S. Rosen

Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and Faculty Gender Composition

w5054 Martin Feldstein
Social Security and Saving: New Time Series Evidence

w5052 Janet Currie
Jonathan Gruber

Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical care, and Child Health

w5004 Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Amy Ellen Schwartz

Spatial Productivity Spillovers from Public Infrastructure: Evidence from State Highways

w5002 Steven D. Levitt
James M. Snyder
Jr.

The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes

w4996 Alan L. Gustman
F. Thomas Juster

Income and Wealth of Older American Households: Modeling Issues for Public Policy Analysis


1994
w4973 James E. Rauch
Bureaucracy, Infrastructure, and Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Cities During the Progressive Era

w4941 Jonathan Gruber
Jeffrey D. Kubik

Disability Insurance Rejection Rates and the Labor Supply of Older Workers

w4930 Janet Currie
Jonathan Gruber
Michael Fischer

Physician Payments and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Fee Policy

w4895 Peter Diamond
Insulation of Pensions from Political Risk

w4824 Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Amy Ellen Schwartz

Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth

w4784 Victor R. Fuchs
Diane M. Reklis

Mathematical Achievement in Eighth Grade: Interstate and Racial Differences

w4644 Janet Currie
Jonathan Gruber

Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women


1993
w4601 Michael D. Hurd
The Effects of Demographic Trends on Consumption, Saving and Government Expenditures in the U.S.

w4589 Jonathan Gruber
Maria Hanratty

The Labor Market Effects of Introducing National Health Insurance: Evidence from Canada

w4539 Janet Currie
Welfare and the Well-Being of Children: The Relative Effectiveness of Cash and In-Kind Transfers

w4510 Peter Diamond
Privatization of Social Security: Lessons from Chile

w4479 Jonathan Gruber
Brigitte C. Madrian

Limited Insurance Portability and Job Mobility: The Effects of Public Policy on Job-Lock

w4469 Jonathan Gruber
Brigitte C. Madrian

Health Insurance Availability and the Retirement Decision

w4161 Frank R. Lichtenberg
R&D Investment and International Productivity Differences

w3799 Herschel I. Grossman
Taejoon Han

A Theory of War Finance

w4388 Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Health Insurance Provision and Labor Market Efficiency in the United States

w4333 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

Keeping People Out: Income Distribution, Zoning and the Quality of Public Education


1992
w4197 Bruce D. Meyer
Policy Lessons from the U.S. Unemployment Experiments

w4182 Alan J. Auerbach
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
David N. Weil

The Increasing Annuitization of the Elderly- Estimates and Implications for Intergenerational Tranfers, Inequality, and National Saving

w4158 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

Income Distribution, Communities and the Quality of Public Education: A Policy Analysis

w4147 Daniel Feenberg
Jonathan Skinner

The Risk and Duration of Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures

w3962 Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick

Social Security Rules and Marginal Tax Rates

w4122 Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Public-Sector Capital and the Productivity Puzzle

w4031 Bruce Russett
Joel Slemrod

Diminished Expectations of Nuclear War and Increased Personal Savings: Evidence From Individual Survey Data

w3981 Catherine J. Morrison
Amy Ellen Schwartz

State Infrastructure and Productive Performance


1991
w3913 David Altig
Steve J. Davis

Borrowing Constraints and Two-Sided Altruism With an Application to Social Security

w3843 Michael D. Hurd
David A. Wise

Changing Social Security Survivorship Benefits and the Poverty of Widows

w3765 Alan J. Auerbach
Laurence Kotlikoff

Life Insurance Inadequacy - Evidence From a Sample of Older Widows

w3745 Leslie E. Papke
The Asset Allocation of Private Pension Plans


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