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Working Papers

2025

1. Has Remote Work Extended Workers’ Careers?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
2. How Much Would Older Workers Respond to an EITC Expansion?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research

2024

3. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Long-term Economic Well-being: Understanding Mechanisms to Explain Group Differences in Net Worth
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
4. Can Employer Demand Support Older Workers Today…And Tomorrow?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research

2021

5. Do Public Sector Workers Increase Their Outside Savings in Response to Pension Cuts?
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
6. Do Smaller Public Employer Pensions Spur More Saving?
   State and Local Pension Plans Briefs, Center for Retirement Research
7. How Have Older Workers Fared During the COVID-19 Recession?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
8. How does Student Debt affect Early-Career Retirement Saving?
   Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
   Also in Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research (2016) View citations (1)

2020

9. Auto-IRA Rollout Gradually Speeding Up
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
10. Do State and Local Government Employees Save Outside of Their Defined Benefit Plans When They Need To?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
11. Measuring Racial/Ethnic Retirement Wealth Inequality
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (2)
12. Should We Worry About Older Workers with Nontraditional Jobs?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
13. Social Security Is a Great Equalizer
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research

2019

14. Do Individuals Know When They Should Be Saving for a Spouse?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
15. Do People Save More After They Marry?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
16. How Do Older Workers Use Nontraditional Jobs?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (4)
    Also in Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research (2019) View citations (4)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article How do older workers use nontraditional jobs?, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Cambridge University Press (2021) (2021)
    Chapter How Do Older Workers Use Nontraditional Jobs?, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) View citations (4) (2019)
17. How Would More Saving Affect the National Retirement Risk Index?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
18. Is the Drop in Fertility Due to the Great Recession or a Permanent Change?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
19. Medicare Part D’s Effect on Evergreening, Generics, and Drug Prices
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
20. Participation and Pre-Retirement Withdrawals in Oregon’s Auto-IRA
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
21. Retiring Earlier than Planned: What Matters Most?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
22. The Effect of Medicare Part D on Evergreening, Generic Entry, and Drug Prices
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
23. The Implications of Social Security’s “Missing Trust Fund”
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
24. What Financial Risks Do Retirees Face in Late Life?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)
25. Why Has Poverty Declined for Widows?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
26. Women, Marriage, and the National Retirement Risk Index
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research

2018

27. An Analysis of Retirement Models to Improve Portability and Coverage
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
28. Do People With Dementia Get Help Managing Their Money?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
29. How Have Workers Responded to Oregon’s Auto-IRA?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)
30. How Much Income Do Retirees Actually Have?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (8)
31. How Much Income Do Retirees Actually Have? Evaluating the Evidence from Five National Datasets
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (8)
32. National Retirement Risk Index Shows Modest Improvement in 2016
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (8)
33. Trends in Retirement Security by Race/Ethnicity
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)

2017

34. Are Many Retirees with Dementia Lacking Help?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
35. Cognitive Aging and the Capacity to Manage Money
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
36. Dementia, Help with Financial Management, and Well-Being
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
37. Do Households Have A Good Sense of Their Retirement Preparedness?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
38. Do Women Still Spend Most of Their Lives Married?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
39. Guardianship and the Representative Payee Program
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
40. How to Pay for Social Security’s Missing Trust Fund?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
    See also Journal Article How to pay for Social Security's Missing Trust Fund?, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Cambridge University Press (2022) (2022)
41. Is Working Longer a Good Prescription for All?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
42. Rising Inequality in Life Expectancy by Socioeconomic Status
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
    See also Journal Article Rising Inequality in Life Expectancy by Socioeconomic Status, North American Actuarial Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals (2021) View citations (2) (2021)
43. Social Security and Total Replacement Rates in Disability and Retirement
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (7)
44. The Behavioral and Consumption Effects of Social Security Changes
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
45. The Effect of Job Mobility on Retirement Timing by Education
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (2)
46. The Impact of Raising Children on Retirement Security
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
47. What's Happening to U.S. Mortality Rates?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
48. Why Are U.S. Households Claiming Social Security Later?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)
49. Why Has U.S. Life Expectancy Fallen Below Other Countries?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)

2016

50. Are Early Claimers Making a Mistake?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
51. Calculating Expected Social Security Benefits by Race, Education, and Claiming Age
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
52. Cognitive Aging and Ability to Work
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
53. Cognitive Aging: A Primer
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
54. Cognitive Impairment and Social Security's Representative Payee Program
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
55. Do Households Save More When the Kids Leave Home?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
56. Does a Uniform Retirement Age Make Sense?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
57. How Do Job Skills That Decline With Age Affect White-Collar Workers?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (6)
58. How Much Does Housing Affect Retirement Security? An NRRI Update
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
59. State Auto-IRA Programs: The Keys to Financial Self-Sufficiency
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research
60. State Initiatives to Cover Uncovered Private Sector Workers
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (3)
61. State Savings Initiatives: Lessons from California and Connecticut
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research

2015

62. Calculating Neutral Increases in Retirement Age by Socioeconomic Status
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (4)
63. Do Households Increase Their Savings When the Kids Leave Home?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)
64. Does Age-Related Decline in Ability Correspond with Retirement Age?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (5)
65. Does Mortality Differ Between Public and Private Sector Workers?
    State and Local Pension Plans Briefs, Center for Retirement Research
66. Recruiting and Retaining High-Quality State and Local Workers: Do Pensions Matter?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (2)
67. What Causes Workers to Retire Before They Plan?
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (4)

2014

68. Deadbeat Dads
    Boston College Working Papers in Economics, Boston College Department of Economics
    Also in 2014 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics (2014) View citations (2)
69. What We Know About Health Reform in Massachusetts
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (1)

2013

70. Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Bridging the gap in pension participation: how much can universal tax-deferred pension coverage hope to achieve?, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Cambridge University Press (2014) View citations (1) (2014)

2010

71. Is Pension Inequality Growing?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations (2)
72. Pension Participation and Uncovered Workers
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research

2009

73. Can the Bottom Third Work Longer?
    Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research

2006

74. Job Tenure and Pension Coverage
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations (4)

Undated

75. How Have Pension Cuts Affected Public Sector Competitiveness?
    State and Local Pension Plans Briefs, Center for Retirement Research

Journal Articles

2022

1. How to pay for Social Security's Missing Trust Fund?
   Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2022, 21, (3), 344-358
   See also Working Paper How to Pay for Social Security’s Missing Trust Fund?, Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (2017) (2017)

2021

2. How do older workers use nontraditional jobs?
   Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2021, 20, (3), 374-392
   See also Chapter How Do Older Workers Use Nontraditional Jobs?, NBER Chapters, 2019 (2019) View citations (4) (2019)
   Working Paper How Do Older Workers Use Nontraditional Jobs?, Issues in Brief (2019) View citations (4) (2019)
3. Rising Inequality in Life Expectancy by Socioeconomic Status
   North American Actuarial Journal, 2021, 25, (S1), S566-S581 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Rising Inequality in Life Expectancy by Socioeconomic Status, Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (2017) (2017)

2020

4. Drug insurance and the strategic behavior of drug manufacturers: Evergreening and generic entry after Medicare Part D
   Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, (C) View citations (2)
5. What Factors Explain the Decline in Widowed Women’s Poverty?
   Demography, 2020, 57, (5), 1881-1902 View citations (3)
6. Why are US men retiring later?
   Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2020, 19, (3), 442-457

2018

7. SINGLE MOMS AND DEADBEAT DADS: THE ROLE OF EARNINGS, MARRIAGE MARKET CONDITIONS, AND PREFERENCE HETEROGENEITY
   International Economic Review, 2018, 59, (1), 191-232 View citations (4)

2017

8. Default Contribution Rates and Participation in Automatic IRAs by Uncovered Workers
   The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 2017, 42, (3), 376-388 View citations (2)

2014

9. Bridging the gap in pension participation: how much can universal tax-deferred pension coverage hope to achieve?
   Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2014, 13, (4), 439-459 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?, IZA Discussion Papers (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2010

10. Pension type, tenure, and job mobility*
    Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2010, 9, (4), 609-625 View citations (9)

Chapters

2019

1. How Do Older Workers Use Nontraditional Jobs?
   A chapter in Incentives and Limitations of Employment Policies on Retirement Transitions: Comparisons of Public and Private Sectors, 2019 View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article How do older workers use nontraditional jobs?, Cambridge University Press (2021) (2021)
   Working Paper How Do Older Workers Use Nontraditional Jobs?, Center for Retirement Research (2019) View citations (4) (2019)