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2012-8: Costs and Concerns Among Residents in Seniors Housing and Care Communities: Evidence from the Residents Financial Survey

Norma Coe and April Wu

2012-7: Financial Well-being of Residents in Seniors Housing and Care Communities: Evidence from the Residents Financial Survey

Norma Coe and April Wu

2012-6: Residents in Seniors Housing and Care Communities: Overview of the Residents Financial Survey

Norma Coe and April Yanjuan Wu

2012-5: Social Security Claiming: Trends and Business Cycle Effects

Owen Haaga and Richard Johnson

2012-4: Economic Consequences of the Great Recession: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Barry Bosworth

2012-3: The Changing Causes and Consequences of Not Working Before Age 62

Barbara Butrica and Nadia Karamcheva

2012-2: The Impact of Temporary Assistance Programs on Disability Rolls and Re-Employment

Stephan Lindner and Austin Nichols

2012-1: Understanding the Growth in Federal Disability Programs: Who Are the Marginal Beneficiaries and How Much Do They Cost?

Adele Kirk

2011-24: Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Retirement Benefits on Labor Force Participation Decisions

Dayanand Manoli and Andrea Weber

2011-23: What Explains State Variation in SSDI Application Rates?

Norma Coe, Kelly Haverstick, Alicia Munnell and Anthony Webb

2011-22: How Do Subjective Mortality Beliefs Affect the Value of Social Security and the Optimal Claiming Age?

Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

2011-21: How Does the Personal Income Tax Affect the Progressivity of OASI Benefits?

Norma Coe, Zhenya Karamcheva, Ricard Kopcke and H Munnell

2011-20: The Pension Protection Act of 2006 and Diversification of Employer Stock in Defined Contribution Plans

Gary Engelhardt

2011-19: Prescription Drug Insurance Coverage, Drug Utilization, and Cost-Related Non-Adherence: Evidence from the Medicare Part D Expansion

Gary Engelhardt

2011-18: Social Security on Auto-Pilot: International Experience with Automatic Stabilizer Mechanisms

Barry Bosworth and Kent Weaver

2011-17: The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Disability Insurance Application and Allowance Rates

Matthew Rutledge

2011-16: Do Couples Self-Insure? The Effect of Informal Care on a Couple’s Labor Supply

Norma Coe, Meghan Skira and Courtney Van Houtven

2011-15: How Prepared are State and Local Workers for Retirement?

Alicia Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry, Josh Hurwitz and Laura Quinby

2011-14: Do Low-Income Workers Benefit from 401(k) Plans?

Eric Toder and Karen Smith

2011-13: Corporate Pension Plan Investments in Alternative Assets: Determinants and Consequences

Divya Anantharaman

2011-12: Social Security Reform and Male Labor Force Participation Around The World

Jocelyn E. Finlay and Günther Fink

2011-11: An In-Depth Look Into Intergenerational Flows

Oksana Leukhina and Marika Santoro

2011-10: Who Retires Early?

Henry Aaron and Jean Marie Callan

2011-9: The Potential Impact of the Great Recession on Future Retirement Incomes

Barbara Butrica, Richard Johnson and Karen Smith

2011-8: Immigrant Diversity and Social Security: Recent Patterns and Future Prospects

Melissa Favreault and Austin Nichols

2011-7: Why Aren't More Families Buying Life Insurance?

Matthew Chambers, Don Schlagenhauf and Eric Young

2011-6: Changes in Firm Pension Policy: Trends Away From Traditional Defined Benefit Plans

Kandice A. Kapinos

2011-5: Interdependent Durations in Joint Retirement

Bo Honoré and Aureo de Paula

2011-4: Health and Retirement Effects in a Collective Consumption Model of Elderly Households

Arthur Lewbel and Shannon Seitz

2011-3: Age Differences in Job Displacement, Job Search, and Reemployment

Richard Johnson and Corina Mommaerts

2011-2: How Important Are Intergenerational Transfers for Baby Boomers?

Alicia Munnell, Anthony Webb, Zhenya Karamcheva and Andrew Eschtruth

2011-1: The Earnings and Social Security Contributions of Documented and Undocumented Mexican Immigrants

Gary Burtless and Audrey Singer

2010-22: Effect of Informal Care on Work, Wages, and Wealth

Courtney Van Houtven, Norma Coe and Meghan Skira

2010-21: Recessions, Wealth Destruction, and the Timing of Retirement

Barry Bosworth and Gary Burtless

2010-20: Measuring the Spillover to Disability Insurance Due to the Rise in the Full Retirement Age

Norma Coe and Kelly Haverstick

2010-19: Is the Reduction in Older Workers' Job Tenure a Cause for Concern?

Steven Sass and Anthony Webb

2010-18: Accounting for Disability Insurance in the Dynamic Relationship Between Disability Onset and Earnings

Perry Singleton

2010-17: The Treatment of Married Women by the Social Security Retirement Program

Andrew Biggs, Gayle L. Reznik and Nada O. Eissa

2010-16: What is the Impact of Foreclosures on Retirement Security?

Irena Dushi, Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb

2010-15: Children and Household Utility: Evidence from Kids Flying the Coop

Norma Coe and Anthony Webb

2010-14: Overview of the CRR 2009 Retirement Survey

Alicia Munnell, Norma Coe, Kelly Haverstick and Steven Sass

2010-13: State Wage-Payment Laws, the Pension Protection Act of 2006, and 401(k) Saving Behavior

Gary V. Engelhardt

2010-12: Asset Cycles and the Retirement Decisions of Older Workers

Jan Ondrich

2010-11: Price Deflators, the Trust Fund Forecast, and Social Security Solvency

Barry Bosworth

2010-10: The Impact of a DROP Program on the Age of Retirement and Employer Pension Costs

Samson Alva, Norma Coe and Anthony Webb

2010-9: Housing Consumption in Late Life: The Role of Income, Health Shocks, and Marital Shocks

Douglas A. Wolf and Janet M. Wilmoth

2010-8: Adjusting Social Security for Increasing Life Expectancy: Effects on Progressivity

Courtney Monk, John A. Turner and Natalia Zhivan

2010-7: Work and Retirement Patterns for the G.I. Generation, Silent Generation, and Early Boomers: Thirty Years of Change

Richard Johnson, Barbara Butrica and Corina Mommaerts

2010-6: Spousal Health Shocks and the Timing of the Retirement Decision in the Face of Forward-Looking Financial Incentives

Courtney Van Houtven and Norma Coe

2010-5: Incorporating Employee Heterogeneity Into Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection

Gopi Goda and Colleen Manchester