Reconsidering the Social Security Notch and retirement: Wealth and incentive effects

Jeremy Moulton () and Ann Stevens

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 132, issue C, 65-68

Abstract: Using the Health and Retirement Study, we show that studies using the Social Security Notch cannot separately identify the effects of retirement wealth and forward-looking incentives on retirement because the Notch natural experiment changed both factors in offsetting ways.

Keywords: Retirement; Social Security; Notch (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.04.016

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