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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

2008-15: Public Long-Term Care Insurance and the Housing and Living Arrangements of the Elderly: Evidence from Medicare Home Health Benefits

Gary Engelhardt and Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley

2008-14: The Impact of Changing Earnings Volatility on Retirement Wealth

Austin Nichols and Melissa Favreault

2008-13: The Housing Bubble and Retirement Security

Alicia Munnell and Mauricio Soto

2008-12: How Much Do State Economics and Other Characteristics Affect Retirement Behavior?

Alicia Munnell, Mauricio Soto, Robert Triest and Natalia Zhivan

2008-11: Will People Be Healthy Enough to Work Longer?

Alicia Munnell, Mauricio Soto and Alex Golub-Sass

2008-10: An Assessment of Life-Cycle Funds

Mauricio Soto, Robert Triest, Alex Golub-Sass and Francesca Golub-Sass

2008-9: Participant Perceptions and Decision-Making Concerning Retirement Benefits

Colleen Medill

2008-8: A Micro-Level Analysis of Recent Increases in Labor Force Participation Among Older Workers

Kevin Cahill, Michael Giandrea and Joseph Quinn

2008-7: The Trajectory of Wealth in Retirement

David Love, Michael Palumbo and Paul Smith

2008-6: The Rising Age at Retirement in Industrial Countries

Gary Burtless

2008-5: The Implications of Career Lengths for Social Security

Melissa Favreault and C. Eugene Steuerle

2008-4: Do Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs Delay Retirement?

Richard Johnson, Rudolph Penner and Desmond Toohey

2008-3: How the Income Tax Treatment of Saving and Social Security Benefits May Affect Boomers' Retirement Incomes

Barbara Butrica, Karen Smith and Eric Toder

2008-2: Saving and Wealth Accumulation in the PSID, 1984-2005

Barry Bosworth and Sarah Anders

2008-1: Older Women's Income and Wealth Packages in Cross-National Perspective

Timothy Smeeding, Janet Gornick, Eva Sierminska and Maurice Leach

2007-27: How Many Struggle to Get By in Retirement?

Barbara Butrica, Daniel Murphy and Sheila Zedlewski

2007-26: The Impact of Late-Career Health and Employment Shocks on Social Security and Other Wealth

Richard Johnson, Gordon B.T. Mermin and Daniel Murphy

2007-24: The Cost of Owning Employer Stocks: Lessons From Taiwan

Yi-Tsung Lee, Yu-Jane Liu and Ning Zhu

2007-23: Health Insurance and the Labor Supply Decisions of Older Workers: Evidence from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Melissa Boyle and Joanna Lahey

2007-22: Why Are Companies Freezing Their Pensions?

Alicia Munnell and Mauricio Soto

2007-21: Capital Income Flows and the Relative Well-Being of America's Aged Population

Barry Bosworth, Gary Burtless and Sarah Anders

2007-20: The Role of Governance in Retirement Investments: Evidence from Variable Annuities

Richard Evans and Ruediger Fahlenbrach

2007-19: A New Approach to Raising Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age

Kelly Haverstick, Margarita Sapozhnikov, Robert Triest and Natalia Zhivan

2007-18: What Makes Retirees Happier: A Gradual or 'Cold Turkey' Retirement?

Esteban Calvo, Kelly Haverstick and Steven Sass

2007-17: Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? Ignorance or Caddishness?

Steven Sass, Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

2007-16: Measurement Error in Earnings Data in the Health and Retirement Study

Jesse Bricker and Gary Engelhardt

2007-15: Evaluating the Advanced Life Deferred Annuity - An Annuity People Might Actually Buy

Guan Gong and Steven Sass

2007-14: Population Aging, Labor Demand, and the Structure of Wages

Margarita Sapozhnikov and Robert Triest

2007-13: Work at Older Ages: Is Raising the Early Retirement Age an Option for Social Security Reform?

John Turner

2007-12: The Labor Supply of Older Americans

Alicia Munnell and Steven Sass

2007-11: Why Do Japanese Workers Remain in the Labor Force So Long?

John Williamson and Masa Higo

2007-10: Literacy, Trust and 401(k) Savings Behavior

Julie Agnew, Lisa Szykman, Stephen Utkus and Jean Young

2007-9: The Recent Evolution of Pension Funds in the Netherlands: The Trend to Hybrid DB-DC Plans and Beyond

Eduard Ponds and Bart Riel

2007-07: Social Security Spouse and Survivor Benefits for the Modern Family

Melissa Favreault and C. Eugene Steuerle

2007-06: How Economic Security Changes During Retirement

Barbara Butrica

2007-05: International Investment for Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence on Risk and Returns

Gary Burtless

2007-04: Job Changes at Older Ages: Effects on Wages, Benefits, and Other Job Attributes

Richard Johnson and Janette Kawachi

2007-03: Cross-National Comparison of Income and Wealth Status in Retirement: First Results From the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS)

Eva Sierminska, Andrea Brandolini and Timothy Smeeding

2007-02: Saving and Demographic Change: The Global Dimension

Barry Bosworth and Gabriel Chodorow-Reich

2007-01: The Repeal of the Retirement Earnings Test and the Labor Supply of Older Men

Gary Engelhardt and Anil Kumar

2006-27: Persistence in Labor Supply and the Response to the Social Security Earnings Test

Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb

2006-26: Annuitized Wealth and Consumption at Older Ages

Barbara Butrica and Gordon Mermin

2006-25: Risk and Reward of International Investing for U.S. Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence

Gary Burtless

2006-24: State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Joanna Lahey

2006-23: Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study

Joanna Lahey

2006-22: Optimal Retirement Asset Decumulation Strategies: The Impact of Housing Wealth

Wei Sun, Robert Triest and Anthony Webb

2006-21: The Impact of Aggregate Mortality Risk on Defined Benefit Pension Plans

Irena Dushi, Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb

2006-20: Health Care Costs, Taxes, and the Retirement Decision: Conceptual Issues and Illustrative Simulation

Rudolph Penner and Richard Johnson