Topic: Social Security
Immigration and Social Security: A Lifetime Distributional Analysis
Melissa Favreault, Richard Johnson, and Mauricio Soto
Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement
Richard W. Johnson, Melissa M. Favreault, and Corina Mommaerts
Earnings and Social Security Contributions of Documented and Undocumented Workers
Gary Burtless and Audrey Singer
The Impact of Public Pension Policy on the Well-Being of Older Adults: An Analysis of Longitudinal Cross-National Data
Esteban Calvo
An Update on 401(k) Plans: Insights from the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finance
Alicia H. Munnell, Richard W. Kopcke, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Dan Muldoon
Should Social Security Rely Solely on the Payroll Tax?
Alicia H. Munnell
Social Security and the Joint Trends in Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt Among Older Men
Bo MacInnis
The Role of Information for Retirement Behavior: Evidence Based on the Stepwise Introduction of the Social Security Statement
Giovanni Mastrobuoni
Who Goes on Disability Insurance in Response to a Rise in the Full Retirement Age?
Norma B. Coe, Courtney Monk, and Kelly Haverstick
Are Age-62/63 Retired Worker Beneficiaries At Risk?
Eric R. Kingson and Maria T. Brown
Strange But True: Claim and Suspend Social Security
Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva
Strange But True: Claim Social Security Now, Claim More Later
Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva
Unusual Social Security Claiming Strategies: Costs and Distributional Effects
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven A. Sass, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva
Strange But True: Free Loan From Social Security
Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva
How Much Do Households Really Lose By Claiming Social Security at Age 62?
Wei Sun and Anthony Webb
Social Security’s Treatment of Work by Married Women
Andrew Biggs, Nada Eissa, and Gayle Reznik
Financial Hardship Before and After Social Security's Early Eligibility Age
Richard W. Johnson and Gordon B.T. Mermin
Adjusting Social Security for Increasing Life Expectancy
Courtney Monk and Natalia A. Zhivan
Labor Supply Elasticity and Social Security Reform
Selahattin Imrohoroglu and Sagiri Kitao
The Impact of Inflation on Social Security Benefits
Alicia H. Munnell and Dan Muldoon
Retirement and Social Security: A Time Series Approach
Brendan Cushing-Daniels and C. Eugene Steuerle
Sources of Support for Pension Reform: A Cross-National Perspective
Michelle Dion and Andrew Roberts
Rising Tides and Retirement: The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Differential Wage Growth on Social Security
Melissa M. Favreault
Are People Claiming Social Security Benefits Later?
Dan Muldoon and Richard W. Kopcke
Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2008 Update in Perspective
Alicia H. Munnell
When Should Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits?
Steven A. Sass, Wei Sun, and Anthony Webb
An "Elastic" Earliest Eligibility Age for Social Security
Natalia Zhivan, Steven A. Sass, Margarita Sapozhnikov, and Kelly Haverstick
The Implications of Career Lengths for Social Security
Melissa M. Favreault and C. Eugene Steuerle
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
Working Wives Reduce Social Security Replacement Rates
Alicia H. Munnell, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, and Mauricio Soto
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
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
Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2007 Report in Perspective
Alicia H. Munnell
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
How to Improve Long-Term Immigration Projections
Neil Howe and Richard Jackson
Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2006 Update in Perspective
Alicia H. Munnell
Pensions, Social Security, Wealth and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
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
Sorting Out Social Security Replacement Rates
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
The Politics of Parallel Pensions: Lessons from the United Kingdom for the United States
R. Kent Weaver
How Much Pre-Retirement Income Does Social Security Replace?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Why Do Women Claim Social Security Benefits So Early?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Financing Disability Benefits in a System of Individual Accounts: Lessons from International Experie
Patrick Wiese
Mandatory Social Security Coverage of State and Local Workers: A Perennial Hot Button
Alicia H. Munnell
Are the Social Security Trust Funds Meaningful?
Alicia H. Munnell
National Saving and Social Security Reform
Andrew Eschtruth and Robert Triest
What is Progressive Price Indexing?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2005 Update and a Look Back
Alicia H. Munnell
Yikes! How to Think About Risk?
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven A. Sass, and Mauricio Soto
Top Ten Myths of Social Security Reform
Jeffrey Brown, Kevin Hassett and Kent Smetters
What Does Price Indexing Mean for Social Security Benefits?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
What Replacement Rates Do Households Actually Experience in Retirement?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
A Bird's Eye View of the Social Security Debate
Alicia H. Munnell
Investment Choice in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan
Mårten Palme, Annika Sundén, and Paul Söderlind
Projecting Immigration A Survey of the Current State of Practice and Theory
Neil Howe and Richard Jackson
Should We Raise Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age?
Alicia H. Munnell, Kevin B. Meme, Natalia A. Jivan, and Kevin E. Cahill
Can Faster Growth Save Social Security?
Rudolph G. Penner
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
The Declining Role of Social Security
Alicia H. Munnell
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
Social Security and the Federal Budget
Andrew D. Eschtruth
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
How Should We Insure Longevity Risk in Pensions and Social Security?
Jeffrey R. Brown
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
What Stock Market Returns to Expect for the Future?
Peter A. Diamond
Supply-Side Consequences of Social Security Reform: Impacts on Saving and Employment
Barry Bosworth and Gary Burtless
What to Do about the Social Security Earnings Test?
Jonathan Gruber and Peter Orszag
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 Approach to Provision of Old Age Security
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