Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

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2010-4: Accurately Measuring Health Over the Life Course

Fabian Lange and Doug McKee

2010-3: The Shrinking Tax Preference for Pension Savings: An Analysis of Income Tax Changes, 1985-2007

Gary Burtless and Eric Toder

2010-2: Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell, Sendhil Mullainathan and Jonathan Zinman

2010-02: Social Security, Benefit Claiming and Labor Force Participation: A Quantitative General Equilibrium Approach

Selahattin Imrohoroglu and Sagiri Kitao

2010-1: How Much Is Enough? The Distribution of Lifetime Health Care Costs

Anthony Webb and Natalia Zhivan

2009-34: Impact of Immigration on the Distribution of American Well-Being

Gary Burtless

2009-33: Will Automatic Enrollment Reduce Employer Contributions to 401(k) Plans?

Mauricio Soto and Barbara Butrica

2009-32: Actual and Anticipated Inheritance Receipts

Norma Coe and Anthony Webb

2009-31: How Seniors Change Their Asset Holdings During Retirement

Karen Smith, Mauricio Soto and Rudolph Penner

2009-30: Retirement Security and the Stock Market Crash: What Are the Possible Outcomes?

Barbara Butrica, Karen Smith and Eric Toder

2009-29: Dutch Pension Funds in Underfunding: Solving Generational Dilemmas

Niels Kortleve and Eduard Ponds

2009-28: Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement

Richard Johnson, Melissa Favreault and Corina Mommaerts

2009-27: Fees and Trading Costs of Equity Mutual Funds in 401(k) Plans and Potential Savings from ETFS and Commingled Trusts

Richard Kopcke, Francis Vitagliano and Zhenya Karamcheva

2009-26: An Update on 401(k) Plans: Insights from the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finance

Alicia Munnell, Richard Kopcke, Francesca Golub-Sass and Lawrence Muldoon

2009-25: Insult to Injury: Disability, Earnings, and Divorce

Perry Singleton

2009-24: Medicare Part D and the Financial Protection of the Elderly

Gary Engelhardt and Jonathan Gruber

2009-23: The Role of Information for Retirement Behavior: Evidence Based on the Stepwise Introduction of the Social Security Statement

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

2009-22: Social Security and the Joint Trends in Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt Among Older Men

Bo MacInnis

2009-21: The Wealth of Older Americans and the Sub-Prime Debacle The Wealth of Older Americans and the Sub-Prime Debacle

Barry Bosworth and Rosanna Smart

2009-20: The Asset and Income Profile of Residents in Seniors Care Communities

Norma Coe and Melissa Boyle

2009-19: Pension Buyouts: What Can We Learn From The UK Experience?

Ashby Monk

2009-18: What Drives Health Care Spending? Can We Know Whether Population Aging Is A 'Red Herring'?

Henry Aaron

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

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

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

Esteban Calvo, Kelly 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

Brendan Cushing-Daniels and C. Eugene Steuerle

2008-26: Reforming Pensions

Nicholas Barr and Peter 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

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

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 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