2019 – Publication Years

Trends in Health and Mortality Inequalities in the United States

Estimating the Effects of the Totalization Agreements

This paper quantifies the effects of the totalization agreements that coordinate the United States Social Security program with the comparable programs of other countries. For each treated country that has signed an agreement with the U.S., we construct a synthetic…

Interest Rate Trends in a Global Context

December 4, 2019
CMT_Admin
Interest Rates, International, OASDI trust funds

Long-term interest rates have been falling globally since the early 1980s and have reached historically low levels. Past forecasts largely missed this secular decline. This paper reviews methodologies for making long-term interest rate projections. We synthesize results from studies that…

Trends in Health and Mortality Inequalities in the United States

December 4, 2019
CMT_Admin
Disparities, Health and Retirement Study, Mortality trends

Recent literature has documented a widening gap in mortality in the United States between individuals with high socioeconomic status (SES) and low SES. An important question is whether this trend will continue. In this paper we document trends and inequalities…

Latent Work Capacity and Retirement Expectations

November 22, 2019
Susan Barnes
benefit claiming, Cognition, Disability, Disability insurance, Health

How Reliant are Older Americans on State and Local Government Pensions?

How Would 401(k) ‘Rothification’ Alter Saving, Retirement Security, and Inequality?

November 22, 2019
Susan Barnes
benefit claiming, pensions, retirement savings

The Growth and Geographical Variation of Nursing Home Self-Pay Prices

November 20, 2019
Susan Barnes
Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, retirement savings

Latent Work Capacity and Retirement Expectations

November 18, 2019
Susan Barnes
Uncategorized

Understanding how health decline influences retirement decisions is fundamental for the design of targeted policies that encourage working longer. While there is wide agreement on the relevance of age-related health decline for determining labor supply and retirement decisions, the process…

How Reliant are Older Americans on State and Local Government Pensions?

State and local government pension plans cover about 19.5 million participants, and many participants are heavily reliant on these pensions for retirement income. Most of these plans, however, are underfunded. Based on data from the Health and Retirement Study, we…