How Does Retiree Health Insurance Influence Public Sector Employee Saving?

The research reported herein was performed pursuant to a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to the National Bureau of Economic Research; additional research support was provided by the Pension Research Council/Boettner Center at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The authors have benefitted from helpful discussions with Jeffrey Brown, Michael Hurd, Joe Newhouse, Joshua Rauh, John Shoven, and Sita Slavov. They greatly appreciate the excellent programming assistance of Yong Yu. Opinions and errors are solely those of the authors and not of the institutions with whom the authors are affiliated. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.