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2007-21: Capital Income Flows and the Relative Well-Being of America's Aged Population

Barry Bosworth, Gary Burtless and Sarah Anders

2007-20: The Role of Governance in Retirement Investments: Evidence from Variable Annuities

Richard Evans and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

2007-19: A New Approach to Raising Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age

Kelly L. Haverstick, Margarita Sapozhnikov, Robert Triest and Natalia Zhivan

2007-18: What Makes Retirees Happier: A Gradual or 'Cold Turkey' Retirement?

Esteban Calvo, Kelly L. Haverstick and Steven Sass (Steven A. Sass and Steven A. Sass)

2007-17: Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? Ignorance or Caddishness?

Steven Sass, Wei Sun and Anthony Webb (Steven A. Sass and Steven A. Sass)

2007-16: Measurement Error in Earnings Data in the Health and Retirement Study

Jesse Bricker and Gary Engelhardt

2007-15: Evaluating the Advanced Life Deferred Annuity - An Annuity People Might Actually Buy

Guan Gong and Steven Sass

2007-14: Population Aging, Labor Demand, and the Structure of Wages

Margarita Sapozhnikov and Robert Triest

2007-13: Work at Older Ages: Is Raising the Early Retirement Age an Option for Social Security Reform?

John Turner

2007-12: The Labor Supply of Older Americans

Alicia Munnell and Steven Sass (Steven A. Sass and Steven A. Sass)

2007-11: Why Do Japanese Workers Remain in the Labor Force So Long?

John Williamson and Masa Higo

2007-08: Demographic Influences on Saving-Investment Balances in Developing and Developed Economies

Ralph C. Bryant

2007-07: Social Security Spouse and Survivor Benefits for the Modern Family

Melissa Favreault and Eugene Steuerle

2007-06: How Economic Security Changes During Retirement

Barbara Butrica

2007-05: International Investment for Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence on Risk and Returns

Gary Burtless

2007-04: Job Changes at Older Ages: Effects on Wages, Benefits, and Other Job Attributes

Richard Johnson and Janette Kawachi

2007-03: Cross-National Comparison of Income and Wealth Status in Retirement: First Results From the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS)

Eva M. Sierminska, Andrea Brandolini and Timothy Smeeding

2007-02: Saving and Demographic Change: The Global Dimension

Barry Bosworth and Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel

2007-01: The Repeal of the Retirement Earnings Test and the Labor Supply of Older Men

Gary Engelhardt and Anil Kumar

2006-27: Persistence in Labor Supply and the Response to the Social Security Earnings Test

Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb

2006-26: Annuitized Wealth and Consumption at Older Ages

Barbara Butrica and Gordon Mermin

2006-25: Risk and Reward of International Investing for U.S. Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence

Gary Burtless

2006-24: State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Joanna Lahey

2006-23: Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study

Joanna Lahey

2006-22: Optimal Retirement Asset Decumulation Strategies: The Impact of Housing Wealth

Wei Sun, Robert K. Triest and Anthony Webb

2006-21: The Impact of Aggregate Mortality Risk on Defined Benefit Pension Plans

Irena Dushi, Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb

2006-20: Health Care Costs, Taxes, and the Retirement Decision: Conceptual Issues and Illustrative Simulations

Rudolph Penner and Richard Johnson

2006-19: Why Do Boomers Plan to Work So Long?

Gordon Mermin, Richard Johnson and Dan Murphy

2006-18: Job Tenure and Pension Coverage

Alicia Munnell, Kelly L. Haverstick and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2006-17: Has the Displacement of Older Workers Increased?

Alicia Munnell, Steven Sass, Mauricio Soto and Natalia Zhivan (Steven A. Sass and Steven A. Sass)

2006-16: No Place Like Home: Older Adults and Their Housing

Timothy Smeeding, Barbara Torrey, Jonathon Fisher and David Johnson (Joseph Marchand)

2006-15: Effects of Public Policies on the Disposition of Lump-Sum Distributions: Rational and Behavioral Influences

William Gale and Michael Dworsky

2006-14: Pensions, Social Security, Wealth and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

William Gale and John Phillips

2006-13: Determinants and Consequences of Bargaining Power in Households

Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb

2006-12: Earnings and Women’s Retirement Security

Alicia Munnell and Natalia Zhivan

2006-11: Mortality Heterogeneity and The Distributional Consequences of Mandatory Annuitization

Guan Gong and Anthony Webb

2006-10: Can Heterogeneity of Populations Explain Differences in Mortality?

James W. Vaupel, Roland Rau, Carlo Giovanni Camarda and Kristin G. von Kistowski

2006-9: Personalized Retirement Advice And Managed Accounts: Who Uses Them And How Does Advice Affect Behavior In 401(k) Plans?

Julie Agnew

2006-7: The Politics Of Parallel Pensions: Lessons From The United Kingdom For The United States

R. Kent Weaver

2006-5: Population Aging And The Structure Of Wages

Robert K. Triest, Steven A. Sass and Margarita Sapozhnikov (Steven A. Sass and Steven A. Sass)

2006-4: Financing Disability Benefits In A System Of Individual Accounts: Lessons From International Experience

Patrick Wiese

2005-19: Making Maximum Use Of Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts

Janette Kawachi, Karen E. Smith and Eric J. Toder

2005-18: When The Nest Egg Cracks: Financial Consequences Of Health Problems, Marital Status Changes, And Job Layoffs At Older Ages

Richard W. Johnson, Gordon B.T. Mermin and Cori E. Uccello

2005-14: The Retirement Consumption Conundrum: Evidence from a Consumption Survey

Johnathan Fisher, David Johnson, Joseph Marchand, Timothy Smeeding and Barbara Torrey

2005-11: Top Ten Myths Of Social Security Reform

Jeffrey Robert Brown, Kevin Allen Hassett and Kent Smetters

2005-10: What Replacement Rates Do Households Actually Experience In Retirement?

Alicia Munnell and Mauricio Soto

2005-08: Local Labor Market Conditions and Retirement Behavior

Dan Black and Xiaoli Liang

2005-07: Validation Study Of Earnings Data in the SIPP-- Do Older Workers Have Larger Measurement Error?

Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh

2005-06: Investment Choice in the Swedish Premium Pension Plan

Marten Palme, Annika Sunden and Paul Soderlind

2005-05: Design and Implementation Issues in Swedish Individual Pension Accounts

R. Kent Weaver