Topic: Social Security and Working Papers
The Implications of Career Lengths for Social Security
Melissa M. Favreault and C. Eugene Steuerle
The Impact of Late-Career Health and Employment Shocks on Social Security and Other Wealth
Richard W. Johnson, Gordon B.T. Mermin, and Dan Murphy
How the Income Tax Treatment of Saving and Social Security Benefits May Affect Boomers' Retirement Incomes
Barbara A. Butrica, Karen E. Smith, and Eric Toder
Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? Ignorance or Caddishness?
Steven A. Sass, Wei Sun, and Anthony Webb
A New Approach to Raising Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age
Kelly Haverstick, Margarita Sapozhnikov, Robert Triest, and Natalia Zhivan
Work at Older Ages: Is Raising the Early Retirement Age an Option for Social Security Reform?
John A. Turner
Social Security Spouse and Survivor Benefits for the Modern Family
Melissa M. Favreault and C. Eugene Steuerle
The Repeal of the Retirement Earnings Test and the Labor Supply of Older Men
Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar
Persistence in Labor Supply and the Response to the Social Security Earnings Test
Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb
Pensions, Social Security, Wealth and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Stu
William G. Gale and John W.R. Phillips
Mortality Heterogeneity and The Distributional Consequences of Mandatory Annuitization
Guan Gong and Anthony Webb
Can Heterogeneity of Populations Explain Differences in Mortality?
James W. Vaupel, Roland Rau, Carlo Giovanni Camarda and Kristin G. von Kistowski
The Politics of Parallel Pensions: Lessons from the United Kingdom for the United States
R. Kent Weaver
Financing Disability Benefits in a System of Individual Accounts: Lessons from International Experie
Patrick Wiese
Top Ten Myths of Social Security Reform
Jeffrey Brown, Kevin Hassett and Kent Smetters
What Replacement Rates Do Households Actually Experience in Retirement?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Investment Choice in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan
Mĺrten Palme, Annika Sundén, and Paul Söderlind
Projecting Immigration A Survey of the Current State of Practice and Theory
Neil Howe and Richard Jackson
Social Security Personal-Account Participation with Government Matching
Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar
Providing Guarantees in Social Security
Karen E. Smith, C. Eugene Steuerle, and Pablo Montagnes
Reform Model Two of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security: Distributional Outcome
Melissa M. Favreault, Joshua H. Goldwyn, Karen E. Smith, Lawrence H. Thompson, Cori E. Uccello
Lifetime Earnings, Social Security Benefits, and the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation
Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori Uccello
The Effect of Social Security on Divorce and Remarriage Behavior
Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Cristian Meghea
Lessons for an Aging Society: The Political Sustainability of Social Security Systems
Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta
Linking Benefits to Marital Status: Race and Diminishing Access to Social Security Spouse and Widow
Madonna Harrington Meyer, Douglas A. Wolf, and Christine L. Himes
Living Arrangements and Supplemental Security Income Receipt Among the Aged
Melissa M. Favreault and Douglas A. Wolf
Interactions Between Social Security Reform and the Supplemental Security Income Program for the Age
Paul S. Davies and Melissa M. Favreault
Supply-Side Consequences of Social Security Reform: Impacts on Saving and Employment
Barry Bosworth and Gary Burtless
Love at What Price? Estimating the Value of Marriage
Michael Conlin, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, and Melissa Koenig
The Notional Defined Contribution Model: An Assessment of the Strengths and Limitations of a New App
John Williamson and Matthew Williams
Simulating the Distributional Consequences of Personal Accounts: Sensitivity to Annuitization Option
Cori E. Uccello, Melissa M. Favreault, Karen E. Smith, and Lawrence H. Thompson
Aggregate Implications of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Systems
Francisco Gomes and Alexander Michaelides
Employment, Social Security, and Future Retirement Outcomes for Single Mothers
Richard W. Johnson, Melissa M. Favreault, and Joshua H. Goldwyn
Annuities and Individual Welfare
Thomas Davidoff, Jeffrey Brown, and Peter Diamond
The Evolution of Social Security Disabled Widow(er)s' Benefits
Eric R. Kingson, Margaret Morse, and Gary Calhoun
Whose Money Is It Anyhow?: Governance and Social Investment in Collective Investment Funds
R. Kent Weaver
The Politics of Public Pension Reform
R. Kent Weaver
Fiscal Effects of Social Security Reform in the United States
Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber
Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions
Courtney Coile
Implications of the Bush Commission Pension Reforms for Married Couples
Barry Bosworth, Gary Burtless and Benjamin Keys
Young Widow(er)s, Social Security, and Marriage
Michael J. Brien, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, and David A. Weaver
The Role of Marital History, Early Retirement Benefits, and the Economic Status of Women
Tay K. McNamara, Regina O'Grady-LeShane, and John B. Williamson
New Zealand: The Supreme Political Football
R. Kent Weaver
Projecting Poverty Rates in 2020 for the 62 and Older Population: What Changes Can We Expect and Why
Barbara A. Butrica, Karen Smith, Eric Toder
Pension Reform in the Presence of Financial Market Risk
Barry Bosworth and Gary Burtless
The Senior Income Guarantee (SIG): A New Proposal to Reduce Poverty Among the Elderly
Timothy M. Smeeding and R. Kent Weaver
Retirement Wealth and Its Adequacy: Assessing the Impact of Changes in the Age of Eligibility for Full Social Security Benefits
Catherine P. Montalto
The Supplemental Security Income Program and Incentives to Take up Social Security Early Retirement: Empirical Evidence from Matched SIPP and Social Security Administrative Files
Elizabeth T. Powers and David Neumark
Who Are the Poor Elderly? An Examination Using Alternative Poverty Measures
David S. Johnson and Timothy M. Smeeding
Social Security and Retirement
Courtney Coile and Jonathan Gruber
Social Security Privatization: Lessons From The United Kingdom
John B. Williamson
The Diversity Of Risk Among Age-62 Retired Worker Beneficiaries
Eric R. Kingson and Yvonne Arsenault
Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?
Jonathan Gruber and Peter Orszag
Portfolio Choice, Trading, and Returns in a Large 401(k) Plan
Julie Agnew, Pierluigi Balduzzi, and Annika Sundén
401(k) Investment Decisions and Social Security Reform
Cori E. Uccello
The Effects of Social Security Reform on Saving, Investment, and the Level and Distribution of Worker Well-Being
Barry Bosworth and Gary Burtless
Social Security Reform: Improving Benefit Adequacy and Economic Security for Women
Timothy M. Smeeding
Social Security Reform: Implications for Women
John B. Williamson and Sara E. Rix
Lifetime Earnings Patterns, the Distribution of Future Social Security Benefits, and the Impact of Pension Reform
Barry Bosworth, Gary Burtless, and Eugene Steurele
Interim Report on the Impact of Increasing Earnings Inequality on Retirement Decisions and the Distribution of Social Security Benefits
Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh
Privatizing Public Pension Systems: Lessons for the United States from Latin America
John B. Williamson
Social Security Investment In Equities I: Linear Case
Peter Diamond and John Geanakoplos
Investment Practices of State and Local Pension Funds: Implications for Social Security Reform
Alicia H. Munnell and Annika Sundén with the assistance of Cynthia Perry and Ryan Kling