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2019: How Big Is the Government Subsidy for Medicare Part D?

Alicia Munnell, Gal Wettstein and Wenliang Hou

2019: How Did Computerization Since the 1980s Affect Older Workers?

Anek Belbase and Anqi Chen

2019: Are Social Security’s Actuarial Adjustments Still Correct?

Alicia Munnell and Anqi Chen

2019: Why Are 401(k)/IRA Balances Substantially Below Potential?

Andrew D. Biggs, Alicia Munnell and Anqi Chen

2019: How Would More Saving Affect the National Retirement Risk Index?

Alicia Munnell, Wenliang Hou and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2019: How Do Older Workers Use Nontraditional Jobs?

Alicia Munnell, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Abigail N. Walters

2019: Medicare Part D’s Effect on Evergreening, Generics, and Drug Prices

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Gal Wettstein

2019: Medicaid Enrollment and Capitation Rates: Evidence from Medicare Part D

Laura D. Quinby and Gal Wettstein

2019: Is This Time Different? What History Says About Machines’ Impact on Jobs

Anek Belbase and Alice Zulkarnain

2019: Why Are So Many Households Unable to Cover a $400 Unexpected Expense?

Anqi Chen

2019: The Implications of Social Security’s “Missing Trust Fund”

Alicia Munnell, Wenliang Hou and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2019: Women, Marriage, and the National Retirement Risk Index

Alicia Munnell, Wenliang Hou and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2019: Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2019 Update in Perspective

Alicia Munnell

2019: Do People Save More After They Marry?

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Wenliang Hou

2019: Requiring Auto-Enrollment: Lessons from UK Retirement Plans

Jonathan Cribb and Carl Emmerson

2019: Do Individuals Know When They Should Be Saving for a Spouse?

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Wenliang Hou

2019: Why Has Poverty Declined for Widows?

Alicia Munnell, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Alice Zulkarnain

2019: Retiring Earlier than Planned: What Matters Most?

Alicia Munnell, Matthew Rutledge and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2019: Modernizing Social Security: Minimum Benefits

Andrew D. Eschtruth and Alicia Munnell

2019: What Financial Risks Do Retirees Face in Late Life?

Matthew Rutledge and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2018: How Have Workers Responded to Oregon’s Auto-IRA?

Anek Belbase and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2018: Trends in Retirement Security by Race/Ethnicity

Alicia Munnell, Wenliang Hou and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2018: How Much Income Do Retirees Actually Have?

Anqi Chen, Alicia Munnell and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2018: An Update on Medicare's Finances

Alicia Munnell and Anqi Chen

2018: Modernizing Social Security: Helping the Oldest Old

Alicia Munnell and Andrew D. Eschtruth

2018: Modernizing Social Security: Widow Benefits

Alicia Munnell and Andrew D. Eschtruth

2018: How Is the Mortality Gap Affecting Social Security Progressivity?

Matthew Rutledge

2018: 401(k) Lawsuits: What Are the Causes and Consequences?

George S. Mellman

2018: Could “Tontines” Expand the Market for Longevity Insurance?

Gal Wettstein

2018: Do People With Dementia Get Help Managing Their Money?

Anek Belbase, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Abigail Walters

2018: How Medicaid Helps Older Americans

Steven A. Sass

2018: How Do Prescription Drugs Affect the Use of Other Health Services?

Gal Wettstein

2018: Will Millennials Be Ready for Retirement?

Alicia Munnell and Wenliang Hou

2018: National Retirement Risk Index Shows Modest Improvement in 2016

Alicia Munnell, Wenliang Hou and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2017: Why Has U.S. Life Expectancy Fallen Below Other Countries?

Anqi Chen, Alicia Munnell, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Alice Zulkarnain

2017: Is Working Longer a Good Prescription for All?

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Steven A. Sass

2017: Dodged a Bullet? “Rothification” Likely to Reduce Retirement Saving

Alicia Munnell and Gal Wettstein

2017: Property Tax Deferral: A Proposal to Help Massachusetts Seniors

Alicia Munnell, Anek Belbase, Wenliang Hou and Abigail Walters

2017: 401(k)/IRA Holdings in 2016: An Update from the SCF

Alicia Munnell and Anqi Chen

2017: What's Happening to U.S. Mortality Rates?

Anqi Chen, Alicia Munnell and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2017: The Impact of Raising Children on Retirement Security

Alicia Munnell, Wenliang Hou and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2017: Are Many Retirees with Dementia Lacking Help?

Anek Belbase, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Sara Ellen King

2017: Do Women Still Spend Most of Their Lives Married?

Alicia Munnell, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher and Sara Ellen King

2017: Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2017 Update in Perspective

Alicia Munnell

2017: Does Public Health Insurance Affect How Much People Work?

Gal Wettstein

2017: How Much Long-Term Care Do Adult Children Provide?

Gal Wettstein and Alice Zulkarnain

2017: How Will More Retirees Affect Investment Returns?

Steven A. Sass

2017: What are the Costs and Benefits of Social Security Investing in Equities?

Gary Burtless, Anqi Chen, Wenliang Hou and Alicia Munnell

2017: Who Contributes to Individual Retirement Accounts?

Anqi Chen and Alicia Munnell

2017: Is Home Equity an Underutilized Retirement Asset?

Steven A. Sass

2017: How Has the Shift to 401(k) Plans Affected Retirement Income?

Alicia Munnell, Wenliang Hou, Anthony Webb and Yinji Li

2017: Do Households Have A Good Sense of Their Retirement Preparedness?

Alicia Munnell, Wenliang Hou and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

2017: Target Date Funds: What’s Under the Hood?

Edwin J. Elton, Martin J. Gruber, Andre de Souza and Christopher R. Blake

2017: Cognitive Aging and the Capacity to Manage Money

Anek Belbase and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher