Tag: mortality

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Social Security Technical Panel Concludes Trustees Assumption Reasonable

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September 28, 2015

Panel’s specific recommendations would raise costs by 0.7 percent of payroll. Every four years the Social Security Advisory Board – a bipartisan government board that advises Congress and the President on challenges facing the Social Security program – appoints a Technical Panel to assess the reasonableness of the methods and assumptions underlying the Trustees’ long-term cost projections. …

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Evidence of Increasing Differential Mortality: A Comparison of the HRS and SIPP

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July 1, 2015

Abstract This paper uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to explore the extent of a widening in life expectancies by socioeconomic status (SES) for older persons.  We construct four alternative measures of SES, using educational attainment, average (career) earnings in the prime working…

Sources of Increasing Differential Mortality Among the Aged by Socioeconomic Status

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June 19, 2015

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Does Mortality Differ Between Public and Private Sector Workers?

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June 9, 2015
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Living Longer Raises Costs of Public Plans 

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April 20, 2015
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Differential Mortality and Retirement Benefits in the Health and Retirement Study

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April 29, 2014
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How Will More Obesity and Less Smoking Affect Life Expectancy?

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January 21, 2014
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Why Do More People Die During Economic Expansions?

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April 10, 2012
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How Do Subjective Mortality Beliefs Affect the Value of Social Security and the Optimal Claiming Age?

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November 21, 2011
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Mortality Heterogeneity and the Distributional Consequences of Mandatory Annuitization

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June 1, 2006
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Can Heterogeneity of Populations Explain Differences in Mortality?

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March 28, 2006
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Life is Cheap: Using Mortality Bonds to Hedge Aggregate Mortality Risk

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October 1, 2005