The Distributional Effects of the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision

Jeffrey R. Brown, Scott Weisbenner

NBER Working Paper No. 18342
Issued in August 2012

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This research was supported by the U.S. Social Security Administration through grant #10-P-98363-1-05 to the National Bureau of Economic Research as part of the SSA Retirement Research Consortium. The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the author(s) and do not represent the views of SSA, any agency of the Federal Government, or the NBER. We are grateful to Steve Goss and Bert Kestenbaum for providing us with data and for helpful discussions. We thank Chichun Fang for excellent research assistance.

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