2015 – Publication Years

Occupations and Work Characteristics: Effects on Retirement Expectations and Timing

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study, O*NET, Retirement

Population aging and attendant pressures on public budgets have spurred considerable interest in understanding factors that influence retirement timing. A range of sociodemographic and economic characteristics have been shown to predict both earlier and later retirement. Less is known about…

Declining Wealth and Work among Male Veterans in the Health and Retirement Study

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study, Veterans

The composition, wealth, and employment of male veterans and nonveterans are analyzed for four cohorts from the Health and Retirement Study, ages 51 to 56 in 1992, 1998, 2004, and 2010. Half of the two oldest cohorts served in the…

Comprehensive Wealth of Immigrants and Natives

June 14, 2018
Life-cycle model, Retirement, retirement savings

The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act had a profound impact on the demographic and skill composition of immigrants arriving in the U.S. A large literature has investigated the relative earnings of immigrants and natives, but much less is known about…

Do Payroll Taxes in the United States Create Bunching at Kink Points?

June 14, 2018
Payroll taxes

Much of the literature on labor supply responsiveness to taxes studies the effects of payroll and income taxes together, usually using income tax changes to identify effects. There is less research on how individuals respond to payroll taxes specifically. Given…

Nonmonetary Job Characteristics and Employment Transitions at Older Ages

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study, O*NET, Older workers, Retirement

This paper studies to what extent job characteristics such as physical and cognitive demands, use of technologies, responsibility, difficulty, stress, peer pressure, and relations with co-workers are related to full or partial retirement. We study employment transitions and retirement expectations…

Does Eliminating the Earnings Test Increase the Incidence of Low Income among Older Women?

June 14, 2018
Labor Supply, Retirement, Social Security

Reductions in the implicit taxation of Social Security benefits from reducing or eliminating the Retirement Earnings Test (RET) are an appealing – and in many cases successful – means of encouraging labor supply of older individuals receiving benefits. The downside,…

Social Security Contributions and Return Migration among Older Male Mexican Immigrants

June 14, 2018
Health, Retirement, Social Security

For decades scholars have attempted to understand the effects of immigration on the U.S. Social Security system. To date, this research has been primarily limited to migrants in the U.S. and does not consider those who return to their countries…

Couples' and Singles’ Savings After Retirement

June 14, 2018
Retirement, retirement savings

Narrow Framing and Long-Term Care Insurance

June 14, 2018
Health and Retirement Study, Long-term care

Couples’ and Singles’ Savings After Retirement

June 14, 2018
Retirement, retirement savings

We model the saving problem of retired couples and singles facing uncertain longevity and medical expenses in presence of means-tested social insurance. Households can save to self-insure against uncertain longevity and medical expenses, and to leave bequests. Individuals in a…