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  • John Chalmers, Woodrow T. Johnson, and Jonathan Reuter, Retirement Benefits for State and Local Employees: Designing Pension Plans for the Twenty-First Century (Elsevier, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 116 , 2012), chap. 2, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/retirement-benefits-state-and-local-employees-designing-pension-plans-twenty-first-century/effect-pension-design-employer-costs-and-employee-retirement-choices-evidence-oregon.

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Oregon's Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) is a rich setting in which to study the effect of pension design on...

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