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2014-8: Interest Rates and Economic Growth: Are They Related?

Barry Bosworth

2014-7: The Tradeoff Between Health and Wealth in Retirement Decisions

Kristine Brown

2014-6: The Effect of Increasing Earnings Dispersion on Social Security Payroll Tax Receipts

Richard Kopcke, Zhenyu Li and Anthony Webb

2014-5: What Impact Does Social Security Have on the Use of Public Assistance Programs Among the Elderly

Norma Coe and April Yanyuan Wu

2014-4: Differential Mortality and Retirement Benefits in the Health and Retirement Study

Barry Bosworth and Kathleen Burke

2014-3: Adding Employer Contributions to Health Insurance to Social Security's Earnings and Tax Base

Karen Smith and Eric Toder

2014-2: Lower-Income Individuals Without Pensions: Who Misses Out and Why?

April Yanyuan Wu and Matthew Rutledge

2014-1: How Do Subjective Longevity Expectations Influence Retirement Plans?

Mashfiqur R. Khan, Matthew Rutledge and April Yanyuan Wu

2013-23: Impact of the Great Recession on Retirement Trends in Industrialized Countries

Gary Burtless and Barry Bosworth

2013-22: Does Household Debt Influence the Labor Supply and Benefit Claiming Decisions of Older Americans?

Barbara Butrica and Nadia Karamcheva

2013-21: Point of No Return: How Do Financial Resources Affect the Timing of Retirement After a Job Separation?

Matthew Rutledge

2013-20: The Medicaid Buy-In and Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) Beneficiaries: Lessons for the 2014 Medicaid Expansion and Proposals to Reform DI

Melissa McInerney

2013-19: Validating Longitudinal Earnings in Dynamic Microsimulation Models: The Role of Outliers

Melissa M. Favreault and Owen Haaga

2013-18: Housing in Retirement Across Countries

Makoto Nakajima and Irina Telyukova

2013-17: Can Benefits and Work Incentives Counseling be a Path to Future Economic Self-Sufficiency for SSI/SSDI Beneficiaries?

Zafar E. Nazarov

2013-16: How Do the Changing Labor Supply Behavior and Marriage Patterns of Women Affect Social Security Replacement Rates?

April Yanyuan Wu, Nadia Karamcheva, Alicia Munnell and Patrick Purcell

2013-15: Social Security and the 2001 Reform of the Railroad Retirement Program

Steven Sass

2013-14: An Assessment of the 2001 Reform of the Railroad Retirement Program

Steven Sass

2013-12: How Do the Disabled Cope While Waiting for SSDI?

Norma Coe, Stephan Lindner, Kendrew Wong and April Yanyuan Wu

2013-11: The Impact of Population Aging and Delayed Retirement on Workforce Productivity

Gary Burtless

2013-10: Does Access to Health Insurance Influence Work Effort Among Disability Cash Benefit Recipients?

Norma Coe and Kalman Rupp

2013-9: How Will Older Workers Who Lose Their Jobs During the Great Recession Fare in the Long-Run?

Matthew Rutledge, Natalia Orlova and Anthony Webb

2013-8: Can Long-Term Care Insurance Partnership Programs Increase Coverage and Reduce Medicaid Costs?

Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

2013-7: SSI for Disabled Immigrants: Why Do Ethnic Networks Matter?

Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

2013-6: The Use of VA Disability Benefits and Social Security Disability Insurance Among Veterans

Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew S. London and Colleen M. Heflin

2013-5: How Does the Composition of Disability Insurance Applicants Change Across Business Cycles?

Norma Coe and Matthew Rutledge

2013-4: The Economic Implications of the Department of Labor’s 2010 Proposals for Broker-Dealers

Alicia Munnell, Anthony Webb and Francis Vitagliano

2013-3: What Is the Long-Term Impact on Zebley Kids?

Norma Coe and Matthew Rutledge

2013-2: Sticky Ages: Why Is Age 65 Still a Retirement Peak?

Norma Coe, Mashfiqur Khan and Matthew Rutledge

2013-1: Rethinking Optimal Wealth Accumulation and Decumulation Strategies in the Wake of the Financial Crisis

Richard W. Kopcke, Anthony Webb and Joshua Hurwitz

2012-28: Employee Mobility and Employer-Provided Retirement Plans

Gopi Goda, Damon Jones and Colleen Flaherty Manchester

2012-27: Changing Sources of Income among the Aged Population

Barry Bosworth and Kathleen Burke

2012-26: Holding Out or Opting Out? Deciding Between Retirement and Disability Applications in Recessions

Matthew Rutledge

2012-25: Automatic Enrollment, Employee Compensation, and Retirement Security

Barbara Butrica and Nadia Karamcheva

2012-24: 401(k) Participant Behavior in a Volatile Economy

Barbara Butrica and Karen Smith

2012-23: Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from U.S. Census Data

Delia Furtado and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

2012-22: Will Delayed Retirement by the Baby Boomers Lead to Higher Unemployment Among Younger Workers?

Alicia Munnell and April Yanyuan Wu

2012-21: Growth in Health Consumption and Its Implications for Financing OASDI: An International Perspective

Barry Bosworth and Gary Burtless

2012-20: Using Participant Data to Improve Target Date Fund Allocations

Zhenyu Li and Anthony Webb

2012-19: Job Demand and Early Retirement

Sepideh Modrek and Mark R. Cullen

2012-18: Changes in Labor Force Participation of Older Americans and Their Pension Structures: A Policy Perspective

Frank Heiland and Zhe Zhe Li

2012-17: Borrow Less Tomorrow: Behavioral Approaches to Debt Reduction

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

2012-16: Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance: Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion

Melissa Boyle and Joanna Lahey

2012-15: Social Measuring Social Security Proposals by More than Solvency: Impacts on Poverty, Progressivity, Horizontal Equity, and Work Incentives

Melissa Favreault and C. Eugene Steuerle

2012-14: Can the Government Incentivize the Purchase of Private Long-Term Care Insurance? Evidence from the Long-Term Care Partnership Program

Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley

2012-13: How Important Is Asset Allocation to Financial Security in Retirement?

Alicia Munnell, Natalia Orlova and Anthony Webb

2012-12: Great Recession-Induced Early Claimers: Who Are They? How Much Do They Lose?

Matthew Rutledge and Norma Coe

2012-11: Effects of Employer Health Costs on the Trend and Distribution of Social Security-Taxable Wages

Gary Burtless and Sveta Milusheva

2012-10: Should Households Base Asset Decumulation Strategies on Required Minimum Distribution Tables?

Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

2012-9: Geographic Mobility Among Residents in Seniors Housing and Care Communities: Evidence from the Residents Financial Survey

Norma Coe and April Yanyuan Wu