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Retirement Benefits for State and Local…
Retirement Benefits for State and Local Employees: Designing Pension Plans for the Twenty-First Century
Robert Clark
,
Joshua Rauh
&
Mark Duggan
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Published Date
August 2014
Copyright
2014
CONFERENCE HELD
August 17-18, 2012
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Elsevier, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 116
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Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation grant #2011-8526
Table of Contents
Chapter 1:
What Makes Annuitization More Appealing?
Author(s):
John Beshears
,
James Choi
,
David Laibson
,
Brigitte C. Madrian
&
Stephen P. Zeldes
Chapter 2:
The Effect of Pension Design on Employer Costs and Employee Retirement Choices: Evidence from Oregon
Author(s):
John Chalmers
,
Woodrow T. Johnson
&
Jonathan Reuter
Chapter 3:
Why Do Individuals Choose Defined Contribution Plans? Evidence from Participants in a Large Public Plan
Author(s):
Jeffrey R. Brown
&
Scott J. Weisbenner
Chapter 4:
Linking Benefits to Investment Performance in US Public Pension Systems
Author(s):
Robert Novy-Marx
&
Joshua D. Rauh
Chapter 5:
Reform of Police Pensions in England and Wales
Author(s):
Rowena Crawford
&
Richard Disney
Chapter 6:
Defined Benefit Pension Plan Distribution Decisions by Public Sector Employees
Author(s):
Robert L. Clark
,
Melinda Sandler Morrill
&
David Vanderweide
Chapter 7:
Shrouded Costs of Government: The Political Economy of State and Local Public Pensions
Author(s):
Edward L. Glaeser
&
Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
Financial Education and Choice in State Public Pension Systems
Author(s):
Julie Agnew
&
Josh Hurwitz
Worker Exits from State and Local Government Jobs: The Role of Pensions in Explaining Life Cycle Patterns
Author(s):
Leora Friedberg
Department of Defense Retirement
Author(s):
Jeffrey Smith
&
James E. West
Public Plans and Short-Term Employees
Author(s):
Alicia H. Munnell
,
Jean-Pierre Aubry
,
Joshua Hurwitz
&
Laura Quinby
Investment Behavior in Public DB and Non-DB Pension Plans
Author(s):
James Farrell
&
Daniel Shoag
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