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NBER Papers on Retirement Research Center Projects

Paper    Authors    Title
NB08-01 Sep-08   Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
  The Perception of Social Security Incentives for Labor Supply and Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You'd Think
NB08-02 Sep-08   Sarena Goodman
Jeffrey B. Liebman
  The Taxation of Social Security Benefits as an Approach to Means Testing
NB08-03 Sep-08   Chinhui Juhn
Simon Potter
  Interactions in the Labor Market Behavior of Couples over the Life Course
NB08-04 Dec-08   Thomas Bubolz
Jonathan Skinner
  Regional Variation in Medicare Expenditures for the SSDI Population
NB08-05 Sep-08   Jeffrey R. Brown
Scott Weisbenner
  The Distributional Effects of the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision
NB08-06 Sep-08   James Poterba
Steven Venti
David A. Wise
  Tapping Assets in Retirement: Which Assets, How and When?
NB08-07 Oct-08   David H. Autor
Mark Duggan
  The Effect of Transfer Income on Labor Force Participation and Enrollment in Federal Benefits Programs: Evidence from the Veterans Disability Compensation Program
NB08-08 Sep-08   Till von Wachter
Jae Song
Joyce Manchester
  The Employment Effects of Social Security Disability Insurance in the Past 25 Years: A Study of Rejected Applicants Using Administrative Data
NB08-09 Sep-08   John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
  A Primer on 401(k) Loans
NB08-10 Sep-08   George J. Borjas
  Immigration and Labor Market Outcomes in the Native Elderly Population
NB08-11 Sep-08   John Geanakoplos
Stephen P. Zeldes
  The Market Value of Social Security
NB08-12 Sep-08   Bruce D. Meyer
Wallace K.C. Mok
James X. Sullivan
  The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences
NB08-13 Sep-08   John M.R. Chalmers
Woodrow T. Johnson
Jonathan Reuter
  Who Determines When You Retire? Peer Effects and Retirement
NB08-14 Aug-08   Axel Borsch-Supan
Alexander Ludwig
  Aging, Asset Markets, and Asset Returns
NB08-15 Sep-08   Kent Smetters
Walter Theseira
  A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions
NB08-Q1 Jun-08   Amy Finkelstein
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
  What Good is Health Without Wealth? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption
NB08-Q2 Sep-08   Tonja Bowen Bishop
Hui Shan
  Reverse Mortgages: A Closer Look at HECM Loans
NB08-Q4 Sep-08   John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
  How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?
NB08-Q5 Dec-08   Samuel Marshall
Kathleen McGarry
Jonathan Skinner
  Multi-year Measures of End of Life Medical Expenditures
NB07-01Sep 2007   Jeffrey Brown
Scott Weisbenner
  Why Do Individuals Choose Define Contribution Plans?
NB07-02Dec 2007   Jeffrey Brown
Olivia Mitchell
  Who Values the Social Security Annuity? New evidence on the Annuity Puzzle
NB07-03Feb 2008   Jonathan Skinner
  The Impact of Health and Health Care Expenditures on Future Retirement Financial Security
NB07-04Sep 2007   Bruce Meyer
James X. Sullivan
  Consumption and Income Poverty for Those 65 and Older
NB07-05Dec 2007   Samuel Preston
Caroline Sten
  The Future of American Fertility
NB07-06Dec 2007   James Poterba
Steven Venti
David Wise
  Demographic Trends, Housing Equity, and the Financial Security of Future Retirees
NB07-07Dec 2007   Wolfgang Kuhle
Alexander Ludwig
Axel Boersch-Supan
  Demographic Change, and the Equity Premium
NB07-08 Aug-08   Ying Chen
Kent Smetters
  Should the Poor Own Stocks? The Role of Social Security
NB07-09Aug 2007   John Beshears
James Choi
David Laibson
Bridgitte Madrian
  The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment
NB07-10Aug 2007   Gopi Shah Goda
John Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov
  Social Security and the Timing of Divorce
NB07-11Aug 2007   Gopi Shah Goda
John Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov
  A Tax on Work for the Elderly: Medicare as a Secondary Payer
NB07-12Aug 2007   John Campbell
Adi Sunderam
Luis Viceira
  Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds
NB07-13Dec 2007   George Borjas
  Social Security Eligibility and the Labor Supply of Elderly Immigrants
NB07-14Aug 2007   Chinhui Juhn
Simon Potter
 
  Is There Still an Added Worker Effect?
NB07-15Dec 2007   David Cutler
Jeffrey Liebman
Mark Shepard
Seamus Smyth
  An Expanded Model of Health and Retirement
NB07-16Jun 2007   Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Paul Schrimpf
  The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market
NB07-18Dec 2007   John Geanakoplos
Stephen Zeldes
 
  The Market Value of Accrued Social Security Benefits
NB06-01Dec 2006   James Poterba
Steven Venti
David Wise
  The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows
NB06-02Dec 2006   Andrew Samwick
  Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security
NB06-03Sep 2006   Jeffrey R. Brown
Scott J. Weisbenner
  Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans?
NB06-05Dec 2006   Andrew Biggs
Clark Burdick
Kent Smetters
  Pricing Personal Account Benefit Guarantees: A Simplified Approach
NB06-06Dec 2006   Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov
  Removing the Disincentives in Social Security for Long Careers
NB06-07Jul 2006   James Poterba
Joshua Rauh
Steven Venti
David Wise
  Reducing Social Security PRA Risk at the Individual Level - Lifecycle Funds and No-Loss Strategies
NB06-09Dec 2006   Alan J. Auerbach
Ronald Lee
  Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability
NB06-10Dec 2006   Jeffrey R. Brown
Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton
  The Progressivity of Social Security
NB06-11Dec 2006   Alexander Ludwig
Dirk Kruger
Axel Boersch-Supan
  Demographic Change, Relative Factor Prices, International Capital Flows, and Their Differential Effects on the Welfare of Generations
NB06-12Dec 2006   Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
David G. Seif
  Labor Supply Responses to the Social Security Tax-Benefit Link
NB06-13March 2007   David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser
Allison B. Rosen
  Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?
NB06-14 Sep-08   David M. Cutler
  Health and the Factors Driving Medical Spending
NB05-01Dec 2005   James Poterba
Steven Venti
David Wise
  Demographic Change, Retirement Saving, and Financial Market Returns: Part 1
NB05-02July 2005   John Shoven
Sita Slavov
  Political Risk vs Market Risk in Social Security
NB05-03Dec 2005   Jeffrey Brown
Scott Weisbenner
  401(k) Investment Options, Portfolio Choic and Retirement Wealth
NB05-04Oct 2005   Axel Boersch-Supan
Alexander Ludwig
Joachim Winter
  Aging, Pension Reform, and Capital Flows: A Multi-Country Simulation Model
NB05-05Apr 2006   David Cutler
Edward Glaeser
Allison Rosen
  Trends in Risk Factors in the US: 1971-1975 v. 1999-2002
NB05-06Dec 2005   James Choi
Xavier Gabaix
David Laibson
Brigette Madrian
  Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds
NB05-07Dec 2005   John Geanakoplos
Stephen Zeldes
  Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts
NB05-08Oct 2005   Alan Auerbach
Ronald Lee
  Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems
NB04-01 Nov 2004   Ronald Lee
Timothy Miller
Michael Anderson
  Stochastic Infinite Horizon Forecasts for Social Security and Related Studies
NB04-02 Nov 2004   Sita Nataraj
John B. Shoven
  Has the Unified Budget Undermined the Federal Government Trust Funds?
NB04-03 Dec 2004   Martin Feldstein
  Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform
NB04-04 Dec 2004   Jeffrey R. Brown
Scott Weisbenner
  Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice: Behavioral Lessons from 401(k) Plans
NB04-05 July 2006   David Cutler
Jeffrey Liebman  
Seamus Smyth
  How Fast Should the Social Security Retirement Age Rise?
NB04-06 Sept 2006   Jeffrey Liebman
Emmanuel Saez
  Earning Responses to Increases in Payroll Taxes
NB04-07 Sept 2004   Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Kent Smetters
Jan Walliser
  Diminishing America's Demographic Dilemma Through Pre-Funding Social Security
NB04-08 July 2004   James Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte Madrian
Andrew Metrick
  Saving for Retirement on the Path of Least Resistance
NB04-08 July 2005   James Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte Madrian
  $100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Suboptimal Saving in 401(k) Plans

Other NBER Papers on Social Security

Paper    Authors    Title
w14647 January 2009   Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan
David A. Wise
  Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary (AG)
w14540 December 2008   Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
David G. Seif
  Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities (AG)
w14462 November 2008   Dora L. Costa   The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects (AG)
w14427 October 2008   Alexander W. Blocker
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Stephen A. Ross
  The True Cost of Social Security (AG)
w14105 June 2008   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
  How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends (AG)
w13979 May 2008   John Geanakoplos
Stephen P. Zeldes
  Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts (AG)
w13598 November 2007   Edith Sand
Assaf Razin
  The Political-Economy Positive Role of the Social Security System in Sustaining Immigration (But Not Vice Versa) (AG)
w13565 Oct 2007   Maarten van Rooij
Annamaria Lusardi
Rob Alessie
  Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation (AG)
w13537 Oct 2007   Jeffrey R. Brown   Rational and Behavioral Perspectives on the Role of Annuities in Retirement Planning (AG PE)
w13536 Oct 2007   Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
James Banks
  Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences (AG LS)
w13476 Oct 2007   John B. Shoven   New Age Thinking: Alternative Ways of Measuring Age, Their Relationship to Labor Force Participation, Goverment Policies and GDP (AG PE)
w13442 Sep 2007   Cally Ardington
Anne Case
Victoria Hosegood
  Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa (AG CH PE LS)
w13438 Sep 2007   Jeffrey R. Brown   Guaranteed Trouble: The Economic Effects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (AG PE)
w13382 Sep 2007   Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov
  Social Security and the Timing of Divorce (AG)
w13381 Sep 2007   James Poterba
Steven Venti
David A. Wise
  The Changing Landscape of Pensions in the United States (AG)
w13379 Sep 2007   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai
  Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type (AG LS PE)
w13371 Sep 2007   Hanming Fang
Alessandro Gavazza
  Dynamic Inefficiencies in Employment-Based Health Insurance System Theory and Evidence (HC IO LS PE)
w13362 Sep 2007   Borys Grochulski
Narayana Kocherlakota
  Nonseparable Preferences and Optimal Social Security Systems (EFG PE)
w13345 Aug 2007   Wojciech Kopczuk
Emmanuel Saez
Jae Song
  Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937 (DAE LS PE)
w13337 Aug 2007   Miles S. Kimball
Claudia R. Sahm
Matthew D. Shapiro
  Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses (AP EFG ME)
w13314 Aug 2007   David Laibson
Andrea Repetto
Jeremy Tobacman
  Estimating Discount Functions with Consumption Choices over the Lifecycle (EFG)
w13275 Jul 2007   David Card
Michael Ransom
  Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior (LS)
w13273 Jul 2007   Charles Yuji Horioka
Wataru Suzuki
Tatsuo Hatta
  Aging, Saving, and Public Pensions in Japan (AG PE)
w13240 Jul 2007   Joshua Rauh   Risk Shifting versus Risk Management: Investment Policy in Corporate Pension Plans (CF PE)
w13185 Jun 2007   Alexander Ludwig
Dirk Krueger
Axel H. Boersch-Supan
  Demographic Change, Relative Factor Prices, International Capital Flows, and Their Differential Effects on the Welfare of Generations (AG PE IFM)
w13127 May 2007   Daniel S. Hamermesh
Stephen Donald
  The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work (AG LS PE)
w13110 May 2007   Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov
  Removing the Disincentives in Social Security for Long Careers (AG)
w13105 May 2007   John Ameriks
Andrew Caplin
Steven Laufer
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
  The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives (AG AP CH EFG HC LS PE)
w13091 May 2007   James Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise
  Rise of 401(k) Plans, Lifetime Earnings, and Wealth at Retirement (AG)
w13083 May 2007   James Poterba
Steven Venti
David A. Wise
  New Estimates of the Future Path of 401(k) Assets (AG)
w13059 Apr 2007   Andrew A. Samwick   Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security (AG PE)
w12981 Mar 2007   Jonathan Skinner   Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement? (AG HC PE)
w12970 Mar 2007   Jules H. van Binsbergen
Michael W. Brandt
  Optimal Asset Allocation in Asset Liability Management (AP)
w12958 Mar 2007   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
  Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies (AG LS PE)
w12942 Feb 2007   Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Michael Z. Stamos
  Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement (AG)
w12869 Jan 2007   Isaac Ehrlich
Jinyoung Kim
  Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis (HE PE LS AG)
w12859 Jan 2007   Francisco J. Gomes
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Luis M. Viceira
  The Excess Burden of Government Indecision (AG AP HC PE POL)
w12854 Jan 2007   Elizabeth M. Caucutt
Thomas F. Cooley
Nezih Guner
  The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security (EFG DAE AG)
w12842 Jan 2007   Jeffrey R. Brown
Scott J. Weisbenner
  Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans? (AG)
w12834 Jan 2007   James Poterba
Steven Venti
David A. Wise
  The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows (AG AP)
w12805 Dec 2006   Alan J. Auerbach
Ronald Lee
  Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability (AG PE)
w12800 Dec 2006   Edith Sand
Assaf Razin
  Immigration and the Survival of Social Security: A Political Economy Model (IFM)
w12762 Dec 2006   Beth J. Soldo
Olivia S. Mitchell
Rania Tfaily
John F. McCabe
  Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement (AG HE LS)
w12736 Dec 2006   Martin S. Feldstein   The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets: Implications for Immigration and Other Policies (LS PE)
w12696 Nov 2006   Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Ben Marx
Pietro Rizza
  Americans' Dependency on Social Security (AG)
w12688 Nov 2006   David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore
Younghwan Song
  The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States (AG HC HE LS PE)
w12680 Nov 2006   Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder
  Economic Well-Being at Older Ages: Income- and Consumption-Based Poverty Measures in the HRS (AG)
w12659 Oct 2006   John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
  Simplification and Saving (AG LS PE)
w12621 Oct 2006   David E. Bloom
David Canning
Rick Mansfield
Michael Moore
  Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings (AG EFG LS PE)
w12597 Oct 2006   James Poterba
Joshua Rauh
Steven Venti
David Wise
  Defined Contribution Plans, Defined Benefit Plans, and the Accumulation of Retirement Wealth (AG CF LS PE)
w12585 Oct 2006   Annamaria Lusardi
Olivia S. Mitchell
  Baby Boomer Retirement Security: the Roles of Planning, Financial Literacy, and Housing Wealth (AG)
w12559 Oct 2006   Courtney C. Coile
Phillip B. Levine
  Labor Market Shocks and Retirement: Do Government Programs Matter? (AG LS)
w12541 Sep 2006   Richard B. Freeman   Is A Great Labor Shortage Coming? Replacement Demand in the Global Economy (LS)
w12536 Sep 2006   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 (AG HC PE)
w12533 Sep 2006   Laurence J. Kotlikoff
David Rapson
  Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? -- Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving (AG PE)
w12502 Aug 2006   Gene Amromin
Jennifer Huang
Clemens Sialm
  The Tradeoff Between Mortgage Prepayments and Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings (AG AP PE)
w12452 Aug 2006   Louis Kaplow   Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply (LS PE)
w12447 Aug 2006   Gary V. Engelhardt
Anil Kumar
  Employer Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (PE)
w12445 Aug 2006   Patrick Bajari
Han Hong
Ahmed Khwaja
  Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection and Health Expenditures: A Semiparametric Analysis (IO HC PE)
w12436 Aug 2006   David Autor
Mark Duggan
  The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding (AG HE LS PE)
w12401 Aug 2006   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 (AG PE)
w12392 Jul 2006   Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ivica Dus
  Optimizing the Retirement Portfolio: Asset Allocation, Annuitization, and Risk Aversion (AG AP)
w12391 Jul 2006   Courtney Coile
Kevin Milligan
  How Household Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: The Effect of Aging and Health Shocks (AG AP HC)
w12386 Jul 2006   Jeffrey R. Brown
Courtney C. Coile
Scott J. Weisbenner
  The Effect of Inheritance Receipt on Retirement (AG LS)
w12379 Jul 2006   Ronald Lee
Sang-Hyop Lee
Andrew Mason
  Charting the Economic Life Cycle (AG)
w12351 Jul 2006   Charles Yuji Horioka   The Dissaving of the Aged Revisited: The Case of Japan (AG EFG)
w12303 Jun 2006   Axel Börsch-Supan
Hendrik Jürges
  Early Retirement, Social Security and Well-Being in Germany (AG LS PE)
w12273 Jun 2006   Kanika Kapur
Jeannette Rogowski
  Love or Money? Health Insurance and Retirement Among Married Couples (AG HC HE LS)
w12265 May 2006   Young Jun Chun   Population Aging, Fiscal Policies, and National Saving: Predictions for Korean Economy (AG PE)
w12135 Apr 2006   John B. Shoven
Sita N. Slavov
  Political Risk Versus Market Risk in Social Security (AG PE POL)
w12124 Mar 2006   David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser
  Why Do Europeans Smoke More than Americans? (AG HE)
w12123 Mar 2006   Dhaval Dave
Inas Rashad
Jasmina Spasojevic
  The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes (AG HE)
w12057 Feb 2006   Michael D. Hurd
Susann Rohwedder
  Some Answers to the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle (AG EFG)
w12048 Feb 2006   Joanna Lahey   State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (AG LS)
w12009 Feb 2006   John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
  The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Savings Outcomes: Evidence from the United States (AG EFG PE)
w11979 Jan 2006   James Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte Madrian
  Reducing the Complexity Costs of 401(k) Participation Through Quick Enrollment(TM) (AG EFG PE)
w11974 Jan 2006   James Poterba
Joshua Rauh
Steven Venti
David Wise
  Lifecycle Asset Allocation Strategies and the Distribution of 401(k) Retirement Wealth (AG PE)
w11920 Jan 2006   John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte Madrian
  Early Decisions: A Regulatory Framework (IFM PE AG)
w11850 Dec 2005   Axel Boersch-Supan
Alexander Ludwig
Joachim Winter
  Aging, Pension Reform, and Capital Flows: A Multi-Country Simulation Model
w11831 Dec 2005   Laurence J. Kotlikoff
David Rapson
  Would the FairTax Raise or Lower Marginal and Average Tax Rates
w11811 Dec 2005   Mark Duggan
Perry Singleton
Jae Song
  Aching to Retire? The Rise in the Full Retirement Age and its Impact on the Disability Rolls
w11658 Oct 2005   Adriana Kugler
Giovanni Pica
  Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
w11622 Sep 2005   Shinichi Nishiyama
Kent Smetters
  Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?
w11435 Jun 2005   Joanna Lahey   Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study
w11406 Jun 2005   Andrew G. Biggs
Jeffrey R. Brown
Glenn Springstead
  Alternative Methods of Price Indexing Social Security: Implications for Benefits and System Financing
w11300 May 2005   Robert J. Shiller   The Life-Cycle Personal Accounts Proposal for Social Security: A Review
w11290 May 2005   Jonathan Gruber
David Wise
  Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications, Introduction and Summary
w11250 Apr 2005   Martin Feldstein   Rethinking Social Insurance
w11163 Mar 2005   John Laitner
Dan Silverman
  Estimating Life-Cycle Parameters from Consumption Behavior at Retirement
w11146 Feb 2005   Michele Boldrin
Mariacristina De Nardi
Larry E. Jones
  Fertility and Social Security
w11121 Feb 2005   Isaac Ehrlich
Jinyoung Kim
  Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience
w11101 Feb 2005   Kent Smetters   Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-Best Taxes
w11098 Feb 2005   Martin Feldstein   Structural Reform of Social Security
w11084 Jan 2005   Martin Feldstein   Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform
w11080 Jan 2005   John Joseph Wallis
Price Fishback
Shawn Kantor
  Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal
w11068 Jan 2005   John R. Moran
Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
  Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts
w11060 Jan 2005   Jagadeesh Gokhale
Kent Smetters
  Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems
w10988 Dec 2004   Christian Broda
David E. Weinstein
  Happy News from the Dismal Science: Reassessing the Japanese Fiscal Policy and Sustainability
w10969 Dec 2004   Antoine Bommier
Ronald Lee
Timothy Miller
Stephane Zuber
  Who Wins and Who Loses? Public Transfer Accounts for US Generations Born 1850 to 2090
w10953 Dec 2004   Sita Nataraj
John B. Shoven
  Has the Unified Budget Undermined the Federal Government Trust Funds?
w10917 Nov 2004   Ronald Lee
Timothy Miller
Michael Anderson
  Stochastic Infinite Horizon Forecasts for Social Security and Related Studies
w10905 Nov 2004   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  The social Security Retirement Earnings Test, Retirement and Benefit Claiming
w10875 Nov 2004   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Minimum Hours Constraints, Job Requirements and Retirement
w10525 May 2004   Axel Boersch-Supan
Christina B. Wilke
  The German Public Pension System: How it Was, How it Will Be
w10466 May 2004   Gary V. Engelhardt
Jonathan Gruber
  Social Security and the Evolution of Elderly Poverty
w10444 Apr 2004   Takashi Oshio   Social Security and Trust Fund Management
w10419 Apr 2004   Jeffrey R. Brown Nellie Liang
Scott Weisbenner
  Matching Contributions in Company Stock: Costs and Benefits for Firms and Workers
w10395 Mar 2004   James Poterba
  Valuing Assets in Retirement Saving Accounts
w10383 Mar 2004   Sara G. Castellanos
Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu
David S. Kaplan
  Nominal Wage Rigidities in Mexico: Evidence from Social Security Records
w10316 Feb 2004   Edward C. Prescott   Why do Americans Work so Much More than Europeans?
w10305 Feb 2004   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Personal Accounts and Family Retirement
w10291 Feb 2004   Alan J. Auerbach   How Much Equity Does the Government Hold?
w10282 Feb 2004   Erik Hurst
Paul Willen
  Social Security and Unsecured Debt
w10260 Feb 2004   John Karl Scholz
Ananth Seshadri
Surachai Khitatrakun
  Are Americans Saving "Optimally" for Retirement?
w10219 Jan 2004   Hugo Benitez-Silva
Moshe Buchinsky
John Rust
  How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process?
w10100 Nov 2003   David M. Blau
Donna B. Gilleskie
  The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men
w10099 Nov 2003   Andrew B. Abel   Optimal Taxation When Consumers Have Endogenous Benchmark Levels of Consumption
w10085 Nov 2003   Katherine Grace Carman
Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
  The Impact on Consumption and Saving of Current and Future Fiscal Policies
w10030 Oct 2003   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President's Commision to Strengthen Social Security
w9913 Aug 2003   Axel Borsch-Supan
Barbara Berkel
  Pension Reform in Germany: The Impact on Retirement Decisions
w9892 Aug 2003   James Poterba
Joshua Rauh
Steven Venti
David Wise
  Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts
w9845 Jul 2003   Kent Smetters   Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?
w9798 Jun 2003   Jeff Dominitz
Charles F. Manski
Jordan Heinz
  "Will Social Security Be There For You?": How Americans Perceive Their Benefits
w9756 Jun 2003   Simeon Djankov
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silane
Andrei Shleifer
Juan Botero
  The Regulation of Labor
w9753 Jun 2003   Willem H. Buiter   James Tobin: An Appreciation of his Contribution to Economics
w9691 May 2003   Casey B. Mulligan
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
  Social Security, Retirement, and the Single-Mindedness of the Electorate
w9677 May 2003   Andrew Ang
Angela Maddaloni
  Do Demographic Changes Affect Risk Premiums? Evidence from International Data
w9556 Mar 2003   Richard Disney
Carl Emmerson
Sarah Smith
  Pension Reform and Economic Performance in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s
w9496 Feb 2003   Courtney Coile   Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions
w9494 Feb 2003   Raphael Desmet
Alain Jousten
Sergio Perelman
Pierre Pestieau
  Micro-Stimulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium
w9410 Jan 2003   Dirk Krueger
Felix Kubler
  Pareto Improving Social Security Reform when Financial Markets are Incomplete?
w9407 Dec 2002   Jonathan Gruber
David A. Wise
  Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation
w9278 Oct 2002   Assaf Razin
Efraim Sadka
  The Stability and Growth Pact as an Impediment to Privatizing Social Security
w9256 Oct 2002   Jeffrey R. Brown   Redistribution and Insurance: Mandatory Annuitization with Mortality Heterogeneity
w9210 Sep 2002   Andrew B. Abel   The Effects of a Baby Boom on Stock Prices and Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Social Security
w9197 Sep 2002   Stephen E. Snyder
William N. Evans
  The Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence from the Social Security Notch
w9195 Sep 2002   Marie-Eve Lachance
Olivia S. Mitchell
  Understanding Individual Account Guarantees
w9188 Sep 2002   Wojciech Kopczuk   The Trick is to Live: Is the Estate Tax Social Security for the Rich?
w9183 Sep 2002   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  The Social Security Early Entitlement Age in a Structural Model of Retirement and Wealth
w9166 Sep 2002   John F. Cogan
Olivia S. Mitchell
  The Role of Economic Policy in Social Security Reform: Perspectives from the President's Commission
w9140 Sep 2002   Michael D. Hurd
James P. Smith
Julie M. Zissimopoulos
  The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirement and Social Security Claiming
w9135 Aug 2002   Melvin Stephens Jr.   '3rd of tha Month': Do Social Security Recipients Smooth Consumption Between Checks?
w9097 Aug 2002   Peter A. Diamond
Peter R. Orszag
  An Assessment of the Proposals of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
w9096 Aug 2002   Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Alexi Sluchynsky
  Does It Pay to Work?
w9067 Jul 2002   Bruce Baker
Daniel Besendorfer
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
  Intertemporal State Budgeting
w9045 Jul 2002   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  The New Social Security Commission Personal Accounts: Where Is the Investment Principal?
w9033 Jun 2002   Kerwin Kofi Charles   Is Retirement Depressing?: Labor Force Inactivity and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life
w9014 Jun 2002   Alan B. Krueger
Bruce D. Meyer
  Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance
w8958 May 2002   Casey B. Mulligan
Ricard Gil
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
  Social Security and Democracy
w8924 May 2002   Sebastian Edwards
Alejandra Cox Edwards
  Social Security Privatization Reform and Labor Markets: The Case of Chile
w8911 Apr 2002   Gary V. Engelhardt
Jonathan Gruber
Cynthia D. Perry
  Social Security and Elderly Living Arrangements
w8906 Apr 2002   George M. Constantinides
John B. Donaldson
Rajnish Mehra
  Junior Must Pay: Pricing the Implicit Put in Privatizing Social Security
w8772 Feb 2002   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Behavior Within the Family
w8718 Jan 2002   Jeff Dominitz
Charles F. Manski
Jordan Heinz
  Social Security Expectations and Retirement Savings Decisions
w8670 Dec 2001   Elizabeth Powers
David Neumark
  The Supplemental Security Income Program and Incentives to Take Up Social Security Early Retirement: Empirical Evidence from Matched SIPP and Social..
w8625 Dec 2001   Jeffrey B. Liebman   Redistribution in the Current U.S. Social Security System
w8608 Nov 2001   Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise
  Aging and Housing Equity: Another Look
w8592 Nov 2001   Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick
  Potential Paths of Social Security Reform
w8591 Nov 2001   Joydeep Bhattacharya
Casey B. Mulligan
Robert R. Reed III
  Labor Market Search and Optimal Retirement Policy
w8530 Oct 2001   Alwyn Young   Demographic Fluctuations, Generational Welfare and Intergenerational Transfers
w8514 Oct 2001   David Card
Andrew K. G. Hildreth
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard
  The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from California, 1990-1996
w8488 Sep 2001   Douglas W. Elmendorf
Jeffrey B. Liebman
David W. Wilcox
  Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990s
w8487 Sep 2001   Martin Feldstein   The Future of Social Security Pensions in Europe
w8451 Sep 2001   Martin Feldstein
Jeffrey B. Liebman
  Social Security
w8406 Aug 2001   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Imperfect Knowledge, Retirement and Saving
w8405 Jul 2001   Assaf Razin
Efraim Sadka
Phillip Swagel
  The Aging Population and the Size of the Welfare State
w8341 Jun 2001   Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Todd Neumann
  Does Participating in a 401(k) Raise Your Lifetime Taxes?
w8336 Jun 2001   David H. Autor
Mark G. Duggan
  The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment
w8329 Jun 2001   Marianne Baxter   Social Security as a Financial Asset: Gender-Specific Risks and Returns
w8321 Jun 2001   David T. Ellwood   The Sputtering Labor Force of the 21st Century. Can Social Policy Help?
w8270 May 2001   Laurence Ball
N. Gregory Mankiw
  Intergenerational Risk Sharing in the Spirit of Arrow, Debreu, and Rawls, with Applications to Social Security Design
w8259 Apr 2001   Kent Smetters   The Equivalence of the Social Security's Trust Fund Portfolio Allocation and Capital Income Tax Policy
w8258 Apr 2001   Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Kent Smetters
Jan Walliser
  Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma
w8229 Apr 2001   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Retirement and Wealth
w8163 Mar 2001   Laurence J. Kotlikoff   Generational Policy
w8125 Feb 2001   Hans-Werner Sinn
Frank Westermann
  Two Mezzogiornos
w8111 Feb 2001   Peter Cappelli
David Neumark
  External Job Churning and Internal Job Flexibility
w8082 Jan 2001   Sewin Chan
Ann Huff Stevens
  Retirement Incentives and Expectations
w8074 Jan 2001   Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova
  Individual Risk in an Investment-Based Social Security System
w7975 Oct 2000   John Bound
Timothy Waidmann
  Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working-Aged Disabled
w7963 Oct 2000   Olivia S. Mitchell
John W.R. Phillips
  Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions
w7923 Sep 2000   Jonathan Gruber
Peter Orszag
  Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?
w7906 Sep 2000   Karen E. Dynan
Jonathan Skinner
Stephen P. Zeldes
  Do the Rich Save More?
w7898 Sep 2000   Herschel I. Grossman   Inventors and Pirates: Creative Activity and Intellectual Property Rights
w7882 Sep 2000   Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise
  Aging and Housing Equity
w7861 Aug 2000   Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova
  Accumulated Pension Collars: A Market Approach to Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform
w7837 Aug 2000   Alan J. Auerbach
William G. Gale
  Perspectives on the Budget Surplus
w7830 Aug 2000   Courtney Coile
Jonathan Gruber
  Social Security and Retirement
w7767 Jun 2000   Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick
  Allocating Payroll Tax Revenue to Personal Retirement Accounts to Maintain Social Security Benefits and the Payroll Tax Rate
w7739 Jun 2000   Andrew B. Abel   The Effects of Investing Social Security Funds in the Stock Market When Fixed Costs Prevent Some Households from Holding Stocks
w7698 May 2000   Casey B. Mulligan
Tomas J. Philipson
  Merit Motives and Government Intervention: Public Finance in Reverse
w7682 May 2000   Brigitte C. Madrian
Dennis F. Shea
  The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior
w6722 May 2000   John Geanakoplos
Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen P. Zeldes
  Social Security Money's Worth
w6713 May 2000   John Genakoplos
Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen P. Zeldes
  Would a Privatized Social Security System Really Pay a Higher Rate of Return
w7679 Apr 2000   Casey B. Mulligan   Induced Retirement, Social Security, and the Pyramid Mirage
w7651 Apr 2000   Courtney Coile
Jonathan Gruber
  Social Security Incentives for Retirement
w7646 Apr 2000   Sebastian Edwards
Alejandra Cox Edwards
  Economic Reforms and Labor Markets: Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile
w7597 Mar 2000   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?
w7574 Mar 2000   Kathleen McGarry   Guaranteed Income: SSI and the Well-Being of the Elderly Poor
w7570 Feb 2000   Angus Deaton
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Christina Paxson
  Social Security and Inequality over the Life Cycle
w7568 Feb 2000   Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton
Thomas Glass
  Long Run Effects of Social Security Reform Proposals on Lifetime Progressivity
w7526 Feb 2000   Hugo Benitez-Silva
Moshe Buchinsky
Hiu Man Chan
Sofia Cheidvasser
John Rust
  How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?
w7520 Feb 2000   Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton
Thomas Glass
  The Progressivity of Social Security
w7518 Feb 2000   Antonio Rangel   Forward and Backward Intergenerational Goods: A Theory of Intergenerational Exchange
w7492 Jan 2000   Martin Feldstein
Jeffrey Liebman
  The Distributional Effects of an Investment-Based Social Security System
w7422 Nov 1999   Susan M. Dynarski   Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion
w7381 Oct 1999   Olivia Mitchell   New Trends in Pension Benefit and Retirement Provisions
w7372 Oct 1999   B. Douglas Bernheim
Lorenzo Forni
Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
  The Adequacy of Life Insurance: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey
w7368 Sep 1999   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  What People Don't Know About Their Pensions and Social Security: An Analysis Using Linked Data from the Health and Retirement Study
w7362 Sep 1999   Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
  Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans: How Bad Can It Get?
w7339 Sep 1999   Axel Borsch-Supan   Incentive Effects of Social Security Under an Uncertain Disability Option
w7321 Aug 1999   Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Mark J. Warshawsky
  Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning
w7318 Aug 1999   Courtney Coile
Peter Diamond
Jonathan Gruber
Alain Jousten
  Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits
w7314 Aug 1999   James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise
  Pre-Retirement Cashouts and Foregone Retirement Saving: Implications for 401(k) Asset Accumulation
w7243 Jul 1999   Phillip J. Levine
Olivia S. Mitchell
John W. Phillips
  Worklife Determinants of Retirement Income Differentials Between Men and Women
w7238 Jul 1999   Jonathan A. Parker   Spendthrift in America? On Two Decades of Decline in the U.S. Saving Rate
w7200 Jun 1999   Leora Friedberg   The Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test
w7193 Jun 1999   Jeffrey R. Brown   Are the Elderly Really Over-Annuitized? New Evidence on Life Insurance and Bequests
w7191 Jun 1999   Jeffrey R. Brown   Private Pensions, Mortality Risk, and the Decision to Annuitize
w7183 Jun 1999   Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
James Sefton
Martin Weale
  Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequity via Bequests
w7182 Jun 1999   Robert W. Fairlie
Bruce D. Meyer
  Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men: 1910-1990
w6217 Jun 1999   Dora L. Costa   A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women
w7119 May 1999   Casey B. Mulligan
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
  Social Security in Theory and Practice (II): Efficiency Theories, Narrative Theories, and Implications for Reform
w7118 May 1999   Casey B. Mulligan
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
  Social Security in Theory and Practice (I): Facts and Political Theories
w7117 May 1999   Casey B. Mulligan
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
  Gerontocracy, Retirement, and Social Security
w7103 Apr 1999   Peter Diamond
Jean Geanakoplos
  Social Security Investment in Equities I: Linear Case
w7065 Apr 1999   Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova
  The Economics of Bequests in Pensions and Social Security
w7049 Mar 1999   Estelle James
Gary Ferrier
James Smalhout
Dimitri Vittas
  Mutual Funds and Institutional Investments: What is the Most Efficient Way to Set Up Individual Accounts in a Social Security System?
w7031 Mar 1999   John McHale   The Risk of Social Security Benefit Rule Changes: Some International Evidence
w7030 Mar 1999   Henning Bohn   Social Security and Demographic Uncertainty: The Risk Sharing Properties of Alternative Policies
w7029 Mar 1999   John Y. Campbell
Joao F. Cocco
Francisco J. Gomes
Pascal J. Maenhout
  Investing Retirement Wealth: A Life-Cycle Model
w7016 Mar 1999   Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova
Andrew Samwick
  The Transition to Investment-Based Social Security when Portfolio Returns and Capital Profitability are Uncertain
w7015 Mar 1999   Thomas E. MaCurdy
John B. Shoven
  Asset Allocation and Risk Allocation: Can Social Security Improve Its Future Solvency Problem by Investing in Private Securities?
w7005 Mar 1999   Jeffrey R. Brown
Olivia S. Mitchell
James M. Poterba
  The Role of Real Annuities and Indexed Bonds in an Individual Accounts Retirement Program
w7001 Mar 1999   Guido W. Imbens
Donald B. Rubin
Bruce Sacerdote
  Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Labor Supply, Earnings, Savings, and Consumption: Evidence from a Survey of Lottery Players
w6991 Mar 1999   Andrew B. Abel   The Social Security Trust Fund, the Riskless Interest Rate, and Capital Accumulation
w6989 Mar 1999   Julia Lynn Coronado
Don Fullerton
Thomas Glass
  Distributional Impacts of Proposed Changes to the Social Security System
w6540 Mar 1999   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
w6295 Mar 1999   James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise
  Implications of Rising Personal Retirement Saving
w6970 Feb 1999   Fred T. Goldberg
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Michael J. Graetz
  Reforming Social Security: A Practical and Workable System of Personal Retirement Accounts
w6917 Jan 1999   Martin Feldstein   Prefunding Medicare
w6839 Dec 1998   Martin Feldstein
Elena Ranguelova
  Individual Risk and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in an Investment-Based Social Security Program
w6805 Nov 1998   David Neumark
Elizabeth Powers
  Welfare for the Elderly: The Effects of SSI on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply
w6794 Nov 1998   Martin Feldstein   Social Security Pension Reform in China
w6780 Nov 1998   Axel Borsch-Supan   Incentive Effects of Social Security on Labor Force Participation: Evidence in Germany and Across Europe
w6719 Sep 1998   Peter Diamond   The Economics of Social Security Reform
w6693 Aug 1998   A. Lans Bovenberg
Johan J. Graafland
Ruud A. de Mooij
  Tax Reform and the Dutch Labor Market: An Applied General Equilibrium Approach
w6684 Aug 1998   Laurence J. Kotlikoff   The A-K Model: It's Past, Present, and Future
w6681 Aug 1998   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Effects of Pensions on Saving: Analysis with Data from the Health and Retirement Study
w6641 Jul 1998   Robert J. Shiller   Social Security and Institutions for Intergenerational, Intragenerational, and International Risk Sharing
w6603 Jun 1998   Steven Caldwell
Melissa Favreault
Alla Gantman
Jagadeesh Gokhale
Thomas Johnson
  Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans
w6548 May 1998   Leora Friedberg   The Effect of Old Age Assistance on Retirement
w6534 Apr 1998   Andrew A. Samwick   New Evidence on Pensions, Social Security, and the Timing of Retirement
w6524 Apr 1998   Joshua Aizenman   Privatization in Emerging Markets
w6511 Apr 1998   Kathleen McGarry
Robert F. Schoeni
  Social Security, Economic Growth, and the Rise in Independence of Elderly Widows in the 20th Century
w6478 Mar 1998   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born
w6430 Feb 1998   Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Kent A. Smetters
Jan Walliser
  Opting Out of Social Security and Adverse Selection
w6428 Feb 1998   Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Kent A. Smetters
Jan Walliser
  Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity
w6391 Feb 1998   John H. Tyler
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett
  Estimating the Impact of the GED on the Earnings of Young Dropouts Using a Series of Natural Experiments
w6308 Dec 1997   Jonathan Gruber   Social Security and Retirement in Canada
w6240 Oct 1997   James F. Moore
Olivia S. Mitchell
  Projected Retirement Wealth and Savings Adequacy in the Health and Retirement Study
w6219 Oct 1997   Andrew A. Samwick   Discount Rate Heterogeneity and Social Security Reform
w6214 Oct 1997   Didier Blanchet
Louis-Paul Pele
  Social Security and Retirement in France
w6208 Oct 1997   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
w6171 Sep 1997   Kathleen McGarry
Andrew Davenport
  Pensions and the Distribution of Wealth
w6169 Sep 1997   Pierre Pestieau
Jean-Philippe Stijns
  Social Security and Retirement in Belgium
w6156 Sep 1997   Takashi Oshio
Naohiro Yashiro
  Social Security and Retirement in Japan
w6155 Sep 1997   Agar Brugiavini   Social Security and Retirement in Italy
w6153 Aug 1997   Axel Borsch-Supan
Reinhold Schnabel
  Social Security and Retirement in Germany
w6149 Aug 1997   Martin Feldstein   Transition to a Fully Funded Pension System: Five Economic Issues
w6137 Aug 1997   Marten Palme
Ingemar Svensson
  Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden
w6136 Aug 1997   Michele Boldrin
Sergi Jimenez-Martni
Franco Peracchi
  Social Security and Retirement in Spain
w6135 Aug 1997   Arie Kapteyn
Klaas de Vos
  Social Security and Retirement in The Netherlands
w6134 Aug 1997   Jonathan Gruber
David Wise
  Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Introduction and Summary of Papers by...
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Jonathan Gruber
  Social Security and Retirement in the U.S.
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w6058 Jun 1997   Hilary Williamson Hoynes
Robert Moffitt
  Tax Rates and Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Insurance Program: Current Law and Alternative Reforms
w6055 Jun 1997   Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick
  The Economics of Prefunding Social Security and Medicare Benefits
w5658 May 1997   Roland Benabou   Inequality and Growth
w6000 Apr 1997   Mark Gertler   Government Debt and Social Security in a Life-Cycle Economy
w5949 Mar 1997   Jeffrey A. Miron
David N. Weil
  The Genesis and Evolution of Social Security
w5912 Feb 1997   Alan L. Gustman
Olivia S. Mitchell
Andrew A. Samwick
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Pension and Social Security Wealth in the Health and Retirement Study
w5889 Jan 1997   Katherine Baicker
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz
  A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation
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Fernando Solis-Soberon
Alejandro Villagomez-Amez
  Pension System Reform: The Mexican Case
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Andrew Samwick
  The Transition Path in Privatizing Social Security
w5759 Sep 1996   Eric M. Engen
William G. Gale
John Karl Scholz
  The Effects of Tax-Based Saving Incentives On Saving and Wealth
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w5707 Aug 1996   Olivia Mitchell
Jan Olson
Thomas Steinmeier
  Construction of the Earnings and Benefits File (EBF) for Use With the Health and Retirement Survey
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Laurence J. Kotlikoff
John Sabelhaus
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Stephen P. Zeldes
  "Social Security Privatization: A Structure for Analysis"
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Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Privatizing Social Security: First Round Effects of a Generic, VoluntaryPrivatized U.S. Social Security System
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w5155 Jun 1995   Martin Feldstein
Daniel Feenberg
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Olivia S. Mitchell
Thomas L. Steinmeier
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Richard Freeman
  Why Do Americans and Germans Work Different Hours?
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John B. Shoven
  The Consequences of Population Aging on Private Pension Fund Saving and Asset Markets
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James H. Stock
David A. Wise
  Retirement Incentives: The Interaction between Employer-Provided Pensions, Social Security, and Retiree Health Benefits
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Andrew Samwick
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Jagadeesh Gokhale
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
  Social Security and Medicare Policy From the Perspective of Generational Accounting
w3913 Nov 1991   David Altig
Steve J. Davis
  Borrowing Constraints and Two-Sided Altruism With an Application to Social Security
w3087 Oct 1991   Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Changing the Social Security Rules for Workers over 65: Proposed Policies and Their Effects
w3843 Sep 1991   Michael D. Hurd
David A. Wise
  Changing Social Security Survivorship Benefits and the Poverty of Widows
w3699 May 1991   Alan B. Krueger
Jorn-Steffen Pischke
  The Effect of Social Security on Labor Supply: A Cohort Analysis of the Notch Generation
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Tadashi Yamada
  The Effects of Japanese Social Security Retirement Benefits on Personal Savings and Elderly Labor Force Behavior
w1361 Dec 1987   R. Glenn Hubbard   Social Security and Household Portfolio Allocation
w2442 Nov 1987   Tetsuji Yamada
Tadashi Yamada
  Social Security and Earlier Retirement in Japan: Cross-Sectional Evidence
w2411 Oct 1987   Michael D. Hurd   The Marginal Value of Social Security
w1736 Oct 1987   R. Glenn Hubbard
Kenneth L. Judd
  Social Security and Individual Welfare: Precautionary Saving, LiquidityConstraints, and the Payroll Tax
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Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Douglas J. Puffert
John B. Shoven
  Social Security: A Financial Appraisal Across and Within Generations
w2257 May 1987   B. Douglas Bernheim   Social Security Benefits: An Empirical Study of Expectations and Realizations
w2256 May 1987   Michael J. Boskin   Future Social Security Financing Alternatives and National Saving
w2234 May 1987   John B. Shoven
Jeffrey O. Sundberg
John P. Bunker
  The Social Security Cost of Smoking
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Douglas J. Puffert
  The Financial Impact of Social Security by Cohort Under Alternative Financing Assumptions
w2200 Mar 1987   Martin Feldstein   Should Social Security Benefits Increase with Age?
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Douglas J. Puffert
  Social Security and the American Family
w0970 Aug 1986   Martin Feldstein   The Optimal Level of Social Security Benefits
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John B. Shoven
  The Distributional Impact of Social Security
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Laurence J. Kotlikoff
  Simulating Alternative Social Security Responses to the Demographic Transition
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Jerry A. Hausman
  Choice Under Uncertainty: A Model of Applications for the Social Security Disability Insurance Program
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Laurence J. Kotlikoff
  The Efficiency Gains from Social Security Benefit - Tax Linkage
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Thomas L. Steinmeier
  Social Security Reform and Labor Supply
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Michael J. Boskin
  The Effect of Social Security on Retirement in the Early 1970s
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Zvi Bodie
Alan J. Marcus
  Pension Plan Integration as Insurance Against Social Security Risk
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Rebecca A. Luzadis
  The Social Security Student Benefit Program and Family Decisions
w1348 May 1984   Gary S. Fields
Olivia S. Mitchell
  The Effects of Social Security Reforms on Retirement Ages and RetirementIncomes
w1322 Apr 1984   Edward P. Lazear   Social Security and Pensions
w0730 Mar 1984   Alan J. Auerbach
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
  An Examination of Empirical Tests of Social Security and Savings
w1214 Oct 1983   Robert J. Barro
Chaipat Sahasakul
  Average Marginal Tax Rates from Social Security and the Individual Income Tax
w0583 Oct 1983   Michael J. Boskin
Marcy Avrin
Kenneth Cone
  Modeling Alternative Solutions to the Long-Run Social Security Funding Problem
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Jerry A. Hausman
  "Double Dipping": The Combined Effects of Social Security and Civil Service Pensions on Employee Retirement
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w0562 Jun 1981   Alan S. Blinder
Roger H. Gordon
Donald E. Wise
  Reconsidering the Work Disincentive Effects of Social Security
w0355 Mar 1981   Martin Feldstein   International Differences in Social Security and Saving
w0619 Jan 1981   Alan S. Blinder
Roger H. Gordon
Donald E. Wise
  Social Security, Bequests, and the Life Cycle Theory of Saving: Cross-Sectional Tests
w0206 May 1980   Martin Feldstein
Anthony J. Pellechio
  Social Security and Household Wealth Accumulation: New Microeconomic Evidence
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w0314 Apr 1980   Martin Feldstein   The Effect of Social Security on Private Savings: The Time Series Evidence
w0212 Apr 1980   Martin Feldstein
Anthony J. Pellechio
  Social Security Wealth: The Impact of Alternative Inflation Adjustments
w0204 Jan 1980   Michael J. Boskin
Michael D. Hurd
  The Effect of Social Security on Early Retirement
r0025 Jan 1980   Robert J. Barro
Glenn M. MacDonald
  Social Security and Consumer Spending in an International Cross Section
w0392 Aug 1979   Jonathan S. Leonard   The Social Security Disability Program and Labor Force Participation
w0351 May 1979   Anthony J. Pellechio   Social Security and Retirement: Evidence From the Canada Time Series
w0334 Apr 1979   Martin Feldstein   The Effect of Social Security on Saving
w0272 Aug 1978   Anthony J. Pellechio   The Social Security Earnings Test, Labor Supply Distortions, and Foregone Payroll Tax Revenues
w0260 Jul 1978   Anthony J. Pellechio   The Effect of Social Security on Retirement
w0216 Nov 1977   John B. Shoven   An Evaluation of the Role of Factor Markets and Intensities in the Social Security Crisis: A Progress Report
w0187 Jul 1977   Eytan Sheshinski   A Model of Social Security and Retirement Decisions
w0107 Oct 1975   Michael J. Boskin   Social Security and Retirement Decisions

NBER Books on Social Security

Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Micro-Estimation

Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise, editors
The University of Chicago Press, 2004
741 pages
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Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform, The

Martin Feldstein and Jeffrey B. Liebman, editors
University of Chicago Press, 2002
376 pages
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Social Security Pension Reform in Europe

Martin Feldstein and Horst Siebert, editors
University of Chicago Press, 2002
500 pages
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Risk Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

John Y. Campbell and Martin Feldstein, editors
University of Chicago Press, 2001
496 pages
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Administrative Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

John B. Shoven, editor
University of Chicago Press, 2000
236 pages
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Social Security and Retirement around the World

Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise, editors
University of Chicago Press, 1999
488 pages
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Privatizing Social Security

Martin Feldstein, editor
University of Chicago Press, 1998
472 pages
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