International

Estimating the Impact of Missing Totalization Agreements

• July 21, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• International, Totalization

The number of international social security agreements (totalization agreements) signed by the U.S. is significantly smaller than the number signed by other countries such as Canada and the U.K. This paper aims to estimate the impact of the missing totalization…

Public Pension Design and Household Retirement Decisions: A Comparison of the United States and Germany

• June 17, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• benefit claiming, Financial well-being, International, Retirement, Social Security, Social Security spousal benefits

Saving Regret: Self-assessed Life-cycle Saving Behavior in the U.S. and Singapore

• June 15, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Behavioral economics, Financial well-being, International, Life-cycle model

A Framework for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Totalization Agreements

• June 1, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• International, Social Security, Totalization

Estimating the Macroeconomic Effects of Each Totalization Agreement

• June 1, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• International, Totalization

Macroeconomic Effects of Social Security Totalization Agreements

• May 28, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• International, Totalization

Public Pension Design and Household Retirement Decisions: A Comparison of the United States and Germany

• May 28, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• benefit claiming, International, Labor Supply, OASDI trust funds, Older workers, pensions, Retirement

Social Security provides retirement benefits to age-eligible workers and their spouses. Benefits are permanently increased if initial receipt is delayed. For benefits paid to spouses, these incentives reflect a complex interaction of the worker’s and spouse’s earnings histories, benefit claiming…

2020 Key Findings

• May 26, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Cognition, Demographic trends, Disability, Financial well-being, Inequality, International, Labor force participation, Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortality trends, Totalization

2019 Key Findings

• May 26, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Administrative data link, Financial well-being, Inequality, Interest Rates, International, Labor Supply, Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortality trends, OASDI trust funds, Occupational Requirements Survey, pensions, Totalization

Saving Regret: Self-assessed Life-cycle Saving Behavior in the U.S. and Singapore

• January 11, 2021
• Susan Barnes
• Financial well-being, International

Based on the belief that many people have under-saved and that the reason for under-saving is procrastination, paternalistic nudging to foster saving is often advocated by policy researchers. However, there is little empirical evidence that on hindsight individuals would wish…