Topic: Social Security

• The Changing Causes and Consequences of Not Working Before Age 62
  Barbara A. Butrica and Nadia Karamcheva
• Do Income Taxes Affect the Progressivity of Social Security?
  Norma B. Coe, Zhenya Karamcheva, Richard Kopcke, and Alicia H. Munnell
• The Impact of Temporary Assistance Programs on Disability Rolls and Re-Employment
  Stephan Lindner and Austin Nichols
• Why Do State Disability Application Rates Vary Over Time?
  Norma B. Coe, Kelly Haverstick, Alicia H. Munnell, and Anthony Webb
• Understanding the Growth in Federal Disability Programs: Who Are the Marginal Beneficiaries and How Much Do They Cost?
  Adele Kirk
• What Explains Variation in Disability Application Rates Across States?
  Norma B. Coe, Kelly Haverstick, Alicia H. Munnell, and Anthony Webb
• What Explains State Variation in SSDI Application Rates?
  Norma B. Coe, Kelly Haverstick, Alicia H. Munnell, and Anthony Webb
• Disability Insurance: Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Help?
  Matthew S. Rutledge
• Social Security on Auto-Pilot: International Experience with Automatic Stabilizer Mechanisms
  Barry Bosworth and R. Kent Weaver
• The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Disability Insurance Application and Allowance Rates
  Matthew S. Rutledge
• Social Security Reform and Male Labor Force Participation Around The World
  Jocelyn E. Finlay And Günther Fink
• Immigrant Diversity and Social Security: Recent Patterns and Future Prospects
  Melissa M. Favreault and Austin Nichols
• How Does Social Security Affect Saving? Evidence from Eligibility Changes for State and Local Government Employees
  Clara M. Zverina
• Unprecedented Fiscal Stress in a Perpetual Youth Model
  Alexander W. Richter
• Networks and Disability Insurance
  Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
• Do Social Security Statements Affect Knowledge and Behavior?
  Giovanni Mastrobuoni
• The Earnings and Social Security Contributions of Documented and Undocumented Mexican Immigrants
  Gary Burtless and Audrey Singer
• Measuring the Spillover to Disability Insurance Due to the Rise in the Full Retirement Age
  Norma B. Coe and Kelly Haverstick
• Price Deflators, the Trust Fund Forecast, and Social Security Solvency
  Barry Bosworth
• Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2010 Update in Perspective
  Alicia H. Munnell
• Adjusting Social Security for Increasing Life Expectancy: Effects on Progressivity
  Courtney Monk, John A. Turner, and Natalia A. Zhivan
• A New Social Security 'Notch'? Bad News for People Born in 1947
  Andrew G. Biggs
• Social Security, Benefit Claiming and Labor Force Participation: A Quantitative General Equilibrium Approach
  Selahattin İmrohoroğlu and Sagiri Kitao
• Social Security Reform and Male Labor Force Participation Around the World
  Jocelyn Finlay and Günther Fink
• Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement
  Richard W. Johnson, Melissa M. Favreault, and Corina Mommaerts
• An Update on 401(k) Plans: Insights from the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances
  Alicia H. Munnell, Richard W. Kopcke, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Dan Muldoon
• The Role of Information for Retirement Behavior: Evidence Based on the Stepwise Introduction of the Social Security Statement
  Giovanni Mastrobuoni
• Social Security and the Joint Trends in Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt Among Older Men
  Bo MacInnis
• Social Security's Treatment of Work by Married Women
  Andrew Biggs, Nada Eissa, and Gayle Reznik
• Are Age-62/63 Retired Worker Beneficiaries At Risk?
  Eric R. Kingson and Maria T. Brown
• Unusual Social Security Claiming Strategies: Costs and Distributional Effects
  Alicia H. Munnell, Steven A. Sass, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva
• Should Social Security Rely Solely on the Payroll Tax?
  Alicia H. Munnell
• Strange But True: Claim and Suspend Social Security
  Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva
• Janet M. Wilmoth
  
• Strange But True: Claim Social Security Now, Claim More Later
  Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva
• The Impact of Public Pension Policy on the Well-Being of Older Adults: An Analysis of Longitudinal Cross-National Data
  Esteban Calvo
• How Much Do Households Really Lose By Claiming Social Security at Age 62?
  Wei Sun and Anthony Webb
• Understanding the Growth in Federal Disability Programs: Who Are the Marginal Beneficiaries, and How Much Do They Cost?
  Adele Kirk
• Strange But True: Free Loan From Social Security
  Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, and Nadia Karamcheva
• Rising Tides and Retirement: The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Differential Wage Growth on Social Security
  Melissa M. Favreault
• Financial Hardship Before and After Social Security's Early Eligibility Age
  Richard W. Johnson and Gordon B.T. Mermin
• Elderly Immigrants' Labor Supply Response to Supplemental Security Income
  Neeraj Kaushal
• Labor Supply Elasticity and Social Security Reform
  Selahattin İmrohoroğlu and Sagiri Kitao
• 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
• The Impact of Inflation on Social Security Benefits
  Alicia H. Munnell and Dan Muldoon
• 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
• 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
• An "Elastic" Earliest Eligibility Age for Social Security
  Natalia Zhivan, Steven A. Sass, Margarita Sapozhnikov, and Kelly Haverstick
• 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
• A New Approach to Raising Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age
  Kelly Haverstick, Margarita Sapozhnikov, Robert Triest, and Natalia Zhivan
• Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? Ignorance or Caddishness?
  Steven A. Sass, Wei Sun, and Anthony Webb
• Working Wives Reduce Social Security Replacement Rates
  Alicia H. Munnell, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, and Mauricio Soto
• Promoting Work: Implications of Raising Social Security's Early Retirement Age
  John A. Turner
• Work at Older Ages: Is Raising the Early Retirement Age an Option for Social Security Reform?
  John A. Turner
• The Repeal of the Retirement Earnings Test and the Labor Supply of Older Men
  Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar
• Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2007 Report in Perspective
  Alicia H. Munnell
• Social Security Spouse and Survivor Benefits for the Modern Family
  Melissa M. Favreault and C. Eugene Steuerle
• What is Progressive Price Indexing?
  Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
• National Saving and Social Security Reform
  Andrew Eschtruth and Robert Triest
• What Stock Market Returns to Expect for the Future?
  Peter A. Diamond
• Persistence in Labor Supply and the Response to the Social Security Earnings Test
  Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb
• Why Do Women Claim Social Security Benefits So Early?
  Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
• Pensions, Social Security, Wealth and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
  William G. Gale and John W.R. Phillips
• How to Improve Long-Term Immigration Projections
  Neil Howe and Richard Jackson
• Mortality Heterogeneity and The Distributional Consequences of Mandatory Annuitization
  Guan Gong and Anthony Webb
• Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2006 Update in Perspective
  Alicia H. Munnell
• Can Heterogeneity of Populations Explain Differences in Mortality?
  James W. Vaupel, Roland Rau, Carlo Giovanni Camarda and Kristin G. von Kistowski
• Financing Disability Benefits in a System of Individual Accounts: Lessons from International Experie
  Patrick Wiese
• The Politics of Parallel Pensions: Lessons from the United Kingdom for the United States
  R. Kent Weaver
• A Bird's Eye View of the Social Security Debate
  Alicia H. Munnell
• Sorting Out Social Security Replacement Rates
  Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
• How Much Pre-Retirement Income Does Social Security Replace?
  Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
• 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
• 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
• Design and Implementation Issues in Swedish Individual Pension Accounts
  R. Kent Weaver
• Investment Choice in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan
  Mårten Palme, Annika Sundén, and Paul Söderlind
• 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
• What Does Price Indexing Mean for Social Security Benefits?
  Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
• 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
• How Do Individual Accounts Work in the Swedish Pension System?
  Annika Sundén
• How Can the Actuarial Reduction for Social Security Early Retirement Be Right?
  Natalia A. Jivan
• Should We Raise Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age?
  Alicia H. Munnell, Kevin B. Meme, Natalia A. Jivan, and Kevin E. Cahill
• 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
• Can Faster Growth Save Social Security?
  Rudolph G. Penner
• 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
• Reforming the U.S. Retirement Income System: The Growing Role of Work
  Steven A. Sass
• 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
• The Politics of Public Pension Reform
  R. Kent Weaver
• Whose Money Is It Anyhow?: Governance and Social Investment in Collective Investment Funds
  R. Kent Weaver
• Annuities and Individual Welfare
  Thomas Davidoff, Jeffrey Brown, and Peter Diamond
• Social Security Reform and the Exchange of Bequests for Elder Care
  Meta Brown
• The Evolution of Social Security Disabled Widow(er)s' Benefits
  Eric R. Kingson, Margaret Morse, and Gary Calhoun
• 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 Declining Role of Social Security
  Alicia H. Munnell
• 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
• Social Security and the Private Pension System: The Significance of Integrated Plans
  Pamela Perun
• The Senior Income Guarantee (SIG): A New Proposal to Reduce Poverty Among the Elderly
  Timothy M. Smeeding and R. Kent Weaver
• 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
• Retirement Wealth and Its Adequacy: Assessing the Impact of Changes in the Age of Eligibility for Full Social Security Benefits
  Catherine P. Montalto
• Should a Lump-Sum Payment Replace Social Security's Delayed Retirement Credit?
  Peter R. Orszag
• 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
• Social Security and the Federal Budget
  Andrew D. Eschtruth
• How Would Financial Risk Affect Retirement Income Under Individual Accounts?
  Gary Burtless
• How Should We Insure Longevity Risk in Pensions and Social Security?
  Jeffrey R. Brown
• 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
• Lifetime Earnings Patterns, the Distribution of Future Social Security Benefits, and the Impact of Pension Reform
  Barry Bosworth, Gary Burtless, and Eugene Steurele
• Social Security Reform: Implications for Women
  John B. Williamson and Sara E. Rix
• The Politics of Pension Reform in Canada and the United States
  R. Kent Weaver
• Interim Report on the Impact of Increasing Earnings Inequality on Retirement Decisions and the Distribution of Social Security Benefits
  Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh
• Social Security Reform: Improving Benefit Adequacy and Economic Security for Women
  Timothy M. Smeeding
• Privatizing Public Pension Systems: Lessons for the United States from Latin America
  John B. Williamson
• What to Do about the Social Security Earnings Test?
  Jonathan Gruber and Peter Orszag
• 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
• Social Security Investment In Equities I: Linear Case
  Peter Diamond and John Geanakoplos