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2009-17: Unusual Social Security Claiming Strategies: Costs and Distributional Effects

Alicia Munnell, Steven Sass, Golub-Sass, Alex and Nadia S. Karamcheva

2009-16: Determinants and Consequences of Moving Decisions for Older Homeowners

Esteban Calvo, Kelly L. Haverstick and Natalia Zhivan

2009-15: The Implications of Declining Retiree Health Insurance

Courtney Monk and Alicia Munnell

2009-14: Capital Income Taxes With Heterogeneous Discount Rates

Peter Diamond and Johannes Spinnewijn

2009-13: Are Age-62/63 Retired Worker Beneficiaries At Risk?

Eric Kingson and Maria Brown

2009-12: Taxes and Pensions

Peter Diamond

2009-11: How Much Do Households Really Lose By Claiming Social Security at Age 62?

Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

2009-10: Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Relative Income of the Elderly and Nonelderly

Gary Burtless and Pavel Svaton

2009-9: Do Health Problems Reduce Consumption at Older Ages?

Barbara Butrica, Richard Johnson and Gordon Mermin

2009-8: Financial Hardship Before and After Social Security's Early Eligibility Age

Richard Johnson and Gordon Mermin

2009-7: Rising Tides and Retirement: The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Differential Wage Growth on Social Security

Melissa Favreault

2009-6: Accounting for the Heterogeneity in Retirement Wealth

Fang Yang

2009-5: Labor Supply Elasticity and Social Security Reform

Selahattin Imrohoroglu and Sagiri Kitao

2009-4: Evaluating Micro-Survey Estimates of Wealth and Saving

Barry Bosworth and Rosanna Smart

2009-3: Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing and Risky Assets

Motohiro Yogo

2009-2: The Disappearing Defined Benefit Pension and its Potential Impact on the Retirement Incomes of Boomers

Barbara Butrica, Howard Iams, Karen Smith and Eric Toder

2009-1: Retirement and Social Security: A Time Series Approach

Cushing-Daniels, Brendan and Eugene Steuerle

2008-26: Reforming Pensions

Nicholas Barr and Peter A. Diamond

2008-25: Elderly Immigrants' Labor Supply Response to Supplemental Security Income

Neeraj Kaushal

2008-24: Economic Restructuring and Retirement in Urban China

John Giles

2008-23: Sources of Support for Pension Reform: A Cross-National Perspective

Michelle Dion and Andrew Roberts

2008-22: The Long-Term Effects of the Divorce Revolution: Health, Wealth, and Labor Supply

Kristin Mammen

2008-21: The Response of Household Saving to the Large Shock of German Reunification

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola

2008-20: A Parsimonious Choquet Model of Subjective Life Expectancy

Alexander Ludwig and Alexander Zimper

2008-19: Risky Pensions and Household Saving Over the Life Cycle

David Love and Paul Smith

2008-18: Identifying Local Differences in Retirement Patterns

Leora Friedberg, Michael T. Owyang and Anthony Webb

2008-17: What Effect Do Time Constraints Have on the Age of Retirement?

Leora Friedberg, Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

2008-16: Dual-Eligible Medicaid Spending: Are We on the Flat of the Curve?

Melissa Boyle, Joanna Lahey and Margaret Czervionke

2008-15: Public Long-Term Care Insurance and the Housing and Living Arrangements of the Elderly: Evidence from Medicare Home Health Benefits

Gary Engelhardt and Greenhalgh-Stanley, Nadia

2008-14: The Impact of Changing Earnings Volatility on Retirement Wealth

Austin Nichols and Melissa Favreault

2008-13: The Housing Bubble and Retirement Security

Alicia Munnell and Mauricio Soto

2008-12: How Much Do State Economics and Other Characteristics Affect Retirement Behavior?

Alicia Munnell, Mauricio Soto, Robert K. Triest and Natalia Zhivan

2008-11: Will People Be Healthy Enough to Work Longer?

Alicia Munnell, Mauricio Soto and Golub-Sass, Alex

2008-10: An Assessment of Life-Cycle Funds

Mauricio Soto, Robert K. Triest, Golub-Sass, Alex and Golub-Sass, Francesca

2008-9: Participant Perceptions and Decision-Making Concerning Retirement Benefits

Colleen Medill

2008-8: A Micro-Level Analysis of Recent Increases in Labor Force Participation Among Older Workers

Kevin Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea and Joseph Quinn

2008-7: The Trajectory of Wealth in Retirement

David Love, Michael Palumbo and Paul Smith

2008-6: The Rising Age at Retirement in Industrial Countries

Gary Burtless

2008-5: The Implications of Career Lengths for Social Security

Melissa Favreault and Eugene Steuerle

2008-4: Do Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs Delay Retirement?

Richard Johnson, Rudolph Penner and Desmond Toohey

2008-3: How the Income Tax Treatment of Saving and Social Security Benefits May Affect Boomers' Retirement Incomes

Barbara Butrica, Karen Smith and Eric Toder

2008-2: Saving and Wealth Accumulation in the PSID, 1984-2005

Barry Bosworth and Sarah Anders

2008-1: Older Women's Income and Wealth Packages in Cross-National Perspective

Timothy Smeeding, Janet Gornick, Eva M. Sierminska and Maurice Leach

2007-27: How Many Struggle to Get By in Retirement?

Barbara Butrica, Dan Murphy and Sheila Zedlewski

2007-26: The Impact of Late-Career Health and Employment Shocks on Social Security and Other Wealth

Richard Johnson, Gordon B.T. Mermin and Dan Murphy

2007-25: The Effect of Economic Conditions on the Employment of Workers Nearing Retirement Age

Till Von Wachter

2007-24: The Cost of Owning Employer Stocks: Lessons From Taiwan

Lee, Yi-Tsung, Liu, Yu-Jane and Ning Zhu

2007-23: Health Insurance and the Labor Supply Decisions of Older Workers: Evidence from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Melissa Boyle and Joanna Lahey

2007-22: Why Are Companies Freezing Their Pensions?

Alicia Munnell and Mauricio Soto

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

Barry Bosworth, Gary Burtless and Sarah Anders