2005 – Publication Years

Q & A with Alan Gustman and Tom Steinmeier, July 2005

June 14, 2018
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Q & A with Kent Smetters and Shinichi Nishiyama, October 2005

June 14, 2018
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Retirement, Saving, Benefit Claiming and Solvency Under a Partial System of Voluntary Personal Accounts

June 14, 2018
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This paper is based on an econometric model of retirement and saving, estimated with data for a sample of married men in the Health and Retirement Study. The model simulates how various features of a system of personal Social Security…

Why Not Retire? The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work

June 14, 2018
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Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after their precipitous fifty-year decline. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it may also result from the rigidities imposed by market work schedules. Using…

Technological Progress and Worker Productivity at Different Ages

June 14, 2018
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Household Propensities to Plan for Retirement: A Life Cycle Analysis

June 14, 2018
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Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Well-Being

June 14, 2018
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Consumption and Economic Well-Being at Older Ages: Income- and Consumption-based Poverty Measures in the HRS

June 14, 2018
Financial well-being, Health and Retirement Study

Social Security Solvency: A Crisis?

June 14, 2018
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Social Security has become a topic of national conversation; politicians and news media are widely discussing the need for, and possible shape of, Social Security reform. The basic factors leading to the necessity of policy change are evident: fertility has…

Technological Progress and Worker Productivity at Different Ages

June 14, 2018
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Economists have long thought of technological progress as a primary determinant of rising living standards over time. One might think of technological progress as increasing the "effectiveness" of labor, thereby raising the amount of output that each unit of labor…