2013 – Publication Years

The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study, pensions, Social Security

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the effects of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) provision on Social Security benefits received by individuals and households. WEP reduces the…

The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study, pensions, Social Security

Disability Insurance and Healthcare Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts

June 14, 2018
Affordable Care Act, Disability insurance, Health reform, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income

Macroeconomic Determinants of Retirement Timing

June 14, 2018
Retirement

We analyze lifetime earnings histories of white males during 1960-2010 and categorize the labor force status of every worker as either working full-time, partially retired or fully retired. We find that the fraction of partially retired workers has risen dramatically…

Disability Insurance and Healthcare Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts

June 14, 2018
Affordable Care Act, Disability insurance, Health reform, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income

As health insurance becomes available outside of the employment relationship as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the cost of applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)—potentially going without health insurance coverage during a waiting period totaling 29…

Macroeconomic Determinants of Retirement Timing

June 14, 2018
Retirement

Technological Progress and the Earnings of Older Workers

June 14, 2018
Older workers

Economists’ standard model assumes that improvements in total factor productivity (TFP) raise the marginal product of labor for all workers evenly. This paper uses an earnings dynamics regression model to study whether, in practice, older workers benefit less from TFP…

Technical Review Panel for the Pension Insurance Modeling System (PIMS)

June 14, 2018
pensions

In April of 2013, the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania convened a Technical Review Panel, comprising ten experts whose task it was to review the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s (PBGC) Pension Insurance Modeling…

Estimates of the Potential Insurance Value of Disability Insurance for Individuals with Mental Health Impairments

June 14, 2018
Disability insurance, Health, Supplemental Security Income

Estimates of the Potential Insurance Value of Disability Insurance for Individuals with Mental Health Impairments

June 14, 2018
Disability insurance, Health, Supplemental Security Income

Since the mid-1980s there has been dramatic growth in the number and fraction of DI and SSI beneficiaries with mental illness. With longer life expectancies and younger ages of disability onset than beneficiaries with physical impairments, their growth exerts added…