Newsletter Articles

Research Summaries

Investment-Based Social Security Reform, 2003

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health

Can "Active Decisions" Encourage Saving in 401(k) Plans?, Issue No. 11, Spring 2005
Does Population Aging Affect Financial Markets?, Issue No. 10, Winter 2004/05
Are Trust Fund Surpluses Spent or Saved?, Issue No. 10, Winter 2004/05
Social Security and Elderly Poverty, Issue No. 8, Summer 2004
Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process, Issue No. 6, Winter 2004
Social Security and Retirement Around the World, Issue No. 2, Winter 2003

NBER Digest

Do Federal Government Trust Funds Raise National Saving?, May 2005
Increasing Retirement Account Participation, October 2004
Social Security Causes Earlier Retirement , July 2003
Lower Social Security Benefits Reduced Mortality, April 2003
Social Insurance Programs Have Large Labor Supply Effects, Dec. 2002
Retirement Effects of Canada's Income Security Programs, June 2002
Does Social Security Redistribute to Low Income Groups?, March 2002
Why do Death Rates Decline?, March 2002
Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security, January 2001
An Investment-Based Social Security System Can Benefit Low-Income Groups, July 2000
Social Security Does Not Redistribute Income, May 2000
Social Security Reform Can Make Things Worse, February 2000.

NBER Reporter

Political and Economic Forces Sustaining Social Security , Spring 2005
Life Annuities and Uncertain Lifetimes , Spring 2004
International Evidence on Social Security and Retirement, Conference Report, Fall 2000
Research on Pensions and Social Security, Summer 2000
Coping with the Pension Crisis - Where Does Europe Stand?, Conference Report, Spring 2000