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2006-17: Has the Displacement of Older Workers Increased?

Alicia Munnell, Steven Sass, Mauricio Soto and Natalia Zhivan

2006-16: No Place Like Home: Older Adults and Their Housing

Timothy Smeeding, Barbara Boyle Torrey, Jonathan Fisher, David Johnson and Joseph Marchand

2006-15: Effects of Public Policies on the Disposition of Lump-Sum Distributions: Rational and Behavioral Influences

William Gale and Michael Dworsky

2006-14: Pensions, Social Security, Wealth and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

William Gale and John Phillips

2006-13: Determinants and Consequences of Bargaining Power in Households

Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb

2006-11: Mortality Heterogeneity and The Distributional Consequences of Mandatory Annuitization

Guan Gong and Anthony Webb

2006-10: Can Heterogeneity of Populations Explain Differences in Mortality?

James W. Vaupel, Roland Rau, Carlo Giovanni Camarda and Kristin G. von Kistowski

2006-9: Personalized Retirement Advice And Managed Accounts: Who Uses Them And How Does Advice Affect Behavior In 401(k) Plans?

Julie Agnew

2006-8: Working for a Good Retirement

Barbara Butrica, Karen Smith and C. Eugene Steuerle

2006-7: The Politics Of Parallel Pensions: Lessons From The United Kingdom For The United States

R. Kent Weaver

2006-6: Cross-National Evidence on the Burden of Age-Related Public Transfers and Health Benefits

Gary Burtless

2006-5: Population Aging And The Structure Of Wages

Robert Triest, Steven Sass and Margarita Sapozhnikov

2006-4: Financing Disability Benefits In A System Of Individual Accounts: Lessons From International Experience

Patrick Wiese

2006-3: Long-Term Immigration Projection Methods: Current Practice and How to Improve it

Neil Howe and Richard Jackson

2006-2: Policies to Promote Labor Force Participation of Older People

Alicia Munnell

2006-1: Private Transfers in a Cross Section of Developing Countries

Donald Cox, Emanuela Galasso and Emmauel Jimenez

2005-34: Changes in the Distribution of Long-Run Earnings and Retirement Incomes- Have Recent Cohorts Fallen

Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh

2005-19: Making Maximum Use Of Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts

Janette Kawachi, Karen Smith and Eric Toder

2005-18: When The Nest Egg Cracks: Financial Consequences Of Health Problems, Marital Status Changes, And Job Layoffs At Older Ages

Richard Johnson, Gordon B.T. Mermin and Cori E. Uccello

2005-17: How Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: The Effect of Health Shocks

Courtney Coile and Kevin Milligan

2005-16: Demographic Interactions Between North and South and the Implications for North-South Capital Flows

Ralph Bryant

2005-15: The Decline in Household Saving: What Can We Learn from Survey Data?

Barry Bosworth and Lisa Bell

2005-14: The Retirement Consumption Conundrum: Evidence from a Consumption Survey

Johnathan Fisher, David Johnson, Joseph Marchand, Timothy Smeeding and Barbara Torrey

2005-13: Life is Cheap: Using Mortality Bonds to Hedge Aggregate Mortality Risk

Leora Friedburg and Anthony Webb

2005-12: How Much Is the Working-Age Population Saving?

Alicia Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass and Andrew Varani

2005-11: Top Ten Myths Of Social Security Reform

Jeffrey Brown, Kevin Hassett and Kent Smetters

2005-10: What Replacement Rates Do Households Actually Experience In Retirement?

Alicia Munnell and Mauricio Soto

2005-9: Bequests, Inheritances and Family Traditions

Donald Cox and Oded Starks

2005-8: Local Labor Market Conditions and Retirement Behavior

Dan Black and Xiaoli Lang

2005-7: Validation Study of Earnings Data in the SIPP – Do Older Workers Have Larger Measurement Error?

Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh

2005-5: Design and Implementation Issues in Swedish Individual Pension Accounts

R. Kent Weaver

2005-4: Lashed to the Mast?: The Politics of Notional Defined Contribution Pension Reforms

Sarah Brooks and R. Kent Weaver

2005-3: Understanding Expenditure Patterns in Retirement

Barbara Butrica, Richard Johnson and Joshua Goldwyn

2004-33: The Age Profile of Income and the Burden of Unfunded Transfers in Four Countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Gary Burtless

2004-32: Projecting Immigration A Survey of the Current State of Practice and Theory

Neil Howe and Richard Jackson

2004-31: Nonearnings Income Migration in the United States: Anticipating the Geographical Impacts of Baby Boom Retirement

Peter Nelson

2004-30: Does Work Pay at Older Ages?

Barbara Butrica, Richard Johnson, Karen Smith and C. Eugene Steuerle

2004-29: Poverty and Income Maintenance in Old Age: A Cross-National View of Low Income Older Women

Timothy Smeeding and Susanna Sandstrom

2004-28: How Does Marriage Affect the Allocation of Assets in Women’s Defined Contribution Plans?

Angela Lyons and Tansel Yilmazer

2004-27: How Do Pensions Affect Expected and Actual Retirement Ages?

Alicia Munnell, Robert Triest and Natalia Jivan

2004-26: Why Don't Americans Save?

Barry Bosworth

2004-25: Sliding into Poverty? Cross-National Patterns of Income Source Change and Income Decay in Old Age

James Williamson and Timothy Smeeding

2004-24: The Well-Being of Retirees: Evidence Using Subjective Data

Keith Bender

2004-23: The Impact of Aging on Financial Markets and the Economy: A Survey

Barry Bosworth, Ralph Bryant and Gary Burtless

2004-22: Social Security Personal-Account Participation with Government Matching

Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar

2004-21: Providing Guarantees in Social Security

Karen Smith, C. Eugene Steuerle and Pablo Montagnes

2004-20: Deferring Income in Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans: The Dynamics of Participant Contributions

Karen Smith, Richard Johnson and Leslie A. Muller

2004-18: Employer Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar

2004-17: Motivation for Money and Care that Adult Children Provide for Parents: Evidence from "Point-Blank" Survey Questions

Donald Cox and Beth J. Soldo

2004-16: Effects of Stock Market Fluctuations on the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation

Eric M. Engen, William Gale and Cori E. Uccello

2004-15: Asset Allocation and Information Overload: The Influence of Information Display, Asset Choice and Investor Experience

Julie Agnew and Lisa Szykman

2004-14: Large, Small, International: Equity Portfolio Choices in a Large 401(k) Plan

Julie Agnew and Pierluigi Balduzzi

2004-13: An Analysis of How Individuals React to Market Returns in One 401(k) Plan

Julie Agnew

2004-12: The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior

Eric French and John Jones

2004-11: Valuing Assets in Retirement Saving Accounts

James Poterba

2004-10: Lifetime Earnings, Social Security Benefits, and the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation

Eric Engen, William Gale and Cori Uccello

2004-9: The Effect of Social Security on Divorce and Remarriage Behavior

Stacy Dickert-Conlin and Cristian Meghea

2004-8: Household Demand for Variable Annuities

Jeffrey Brown and James Poterba

2004-7: Lessons for an Aging Society: The Political Sustainability of Social Security Systems

Vincenzo Galasso and Paola Profeta

2004-6: Choice and Other Determinants of Employee Contributions to Defined Contribution Plans

Leslie Papke

2004-5: Linking Benefits to Marital Status: Race and Diminishing Access to Social Security Spouse and Widow

Madonna Harrington Meyer, Douglas Wolf and Christine Himes

2004-4: Annuitization: Keeping Your Options Open

Irena Dushi and Anthony Webb

2004-3: Living Arrangements and Supplemental Security Income Receipt Among the Aged

Melissa Favreault and Douglas Wolf

2004-02: Interactions Between Social Security Reform and the Supplemental Security Income Program for the Age

Paul Davies and Melissa Favreault

2004-1: Supply-Side Consequences of Social Security Reform: Impacts on Saving and Employment

Barry Bosworth and Gary Burtless