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2013: Disability Insurance and Healthcare Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and Alexander Strand

2013: Did Age Discrimination Protections Help Older Workers Weather the Great Recession?

David Neumark and Patrick Button

2013: What Do Data on Millions of U.S. Workers Say About Life Cycle Income Risk?

Fatih Guvenen, Fatih Karahan, Serdar Ozkan and Jae Song

2013: Does Retirement Induced through Social Security Pension Eligibility Influence Subjective Well-being? A Cross-Country Comparison

Arie Kapteyn, Jinkook Lee and Gema Zamarro

2013: Expectations and Household Spending

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2013: Evaluating Web-based Savings Interventions: A Preliminary Assessment

Wei-Yin Hu, Olivia Mitchell, Cynthia Pagliaro and Stephen P. Utkus

2013: Social Security Benefit Claiming and Medicare Utilization

John Bound, Helen Levy and Lauren Nicholas

2013: The Assets and Liabilities of Cohorts: The Antecedents of Retirement Security

J. Michael Collins, John Scholz and Ananth Seshadri

2013: Costs and Benefits of In-Kind Transfers: The Case of Medicaid Home Care Benefits

Ethan Lieber and Lee Lockwood

2013: How Family Status and Social Security Claiming Options Shape Optimal Life Cycle Portfolios

Andreas Hubener, Raimond Maurer and Olivia Mitchell

2013: The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study

Alan Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

2013: Technological Progress and the Earnings of Older Workers

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, John Laitner, Jae Song and Dmitriy Stolyarov

2013: Cognitive Ability, Expectations, and Beliefs about the Future: Psychological Influences on Retirement Decisions

Andrew M. Parker, Leandro S. Carvalho and Susann Rohwedder

2013: Labor Force Transitions at Older Ages: The Roles of Work Environment and Personality

Marco Angrisani, Michael Hurd, Erik Meijer, Andrew M. Parker and Susann Rohwedder

2013: Health Insurance and Retirement Decisions

John Scholz and Ananth Seshadri

2013: Older Adult Debt and Financial Frailty

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia Mitchell

2013: Technical Review Panel for the Pension Insurance Modeling System (PIMS)

Olivia Mitchell, Christopher Geczy, Robert Novy-Marx, Raimond Maurer, Donald E. Fuerst, Christopher M. Bone, Donald J. Segal, Martin G. Clarke, Frank Fabozzi, Deborah Lucas and David Babbel

2013: Macroeconomic Determinants of Retirement Timing

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jae Song and Dmitriy Stolyarov

2013: Estimates of the Potential Insurance Value of Disability Insurance for Individuals with Mental Health Impairments

John Bound, Kyle J. Caswell and Timothy Waidmann

2013: Representativeness of the Low-Income Population in the Health and Retirement Study

Erik Meijer and Lynn A. Karoly

2013: Optimal Life Cycle Portfolio Choice with Variable Annuities Offering Liquidity and Investment Downside Protection

Vanya Horneff, Raimond Maurer, Olivia Mitchell and Ralph Rogalla

2013: Employment Trends by Age in the United States: Why Are Older Workers Different?

Sudipto Banerjee and David Blau

2013: Trends in the Composition and Outcomes of Young Social Security Disability Awardees

Yonatan Ben-Shalom and David Stapleton

2013: Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and After Retirement: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement Support

Alan Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

2012: At the Corner of Main and Wall Street: Family Pension Responses to Liquidity Change and Perceived Returns

Thomas Bridges and Frank Stafford

2012: Medicaid Insurance in Old Age

Mariacristina De Nardi, Eric French and John Jones

2012: Diminishing Margins: Housing Market Declines and Family Financial Responses

Frank Stafford, Erik Hurst and Bing Chen

2012: The Great Recession, Older Workers with Disabilities, and Implications for Retirement Security

Purvi Sevak, Lucie Schmidt and Onur Altindag

2012: Motives for Bequests within the Middle Class

John Laitner and Amanda Sonnega

2012: Investment Decisions in Retirement: The Role of Subjective Expectations

Marco Angrisani, Michael Hurd and Erik Meijer

2012: Retirement in Japan and the United States: Cross-national Comparisons using the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) and the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

Olivia Mitchell and John W. R. Phillips

2012: Exchanging Delayed Social Security Benefits for Lump Sums: Could This Incentivize Longer Work Careers?

Jingjing Chai, Raimond Maurer, Olivia Mitchell and Ralph Rogalla

2012: Personality Traits and Economic Preparation for Retirement

Michael Hurd, Angela Lee Duckworth, Susann Rohwedder and David R. Weir

2012: Tax Elasticity of Labor Earnings for Older Individuals

Abby Alpert and David Powell

2012: The Interplay of Wealth, Retirement Decisions, Policy and Economic Shocks

John Scholz and Ananth Seshadri

2012: Vocational Rehabilitation on the Road to Social Security Disability: Longitudinal Statistics from Matched Administrative Data

David C. Stapleton and Frank H. Martin

2012: Barriers to Later Retirement: Increases in the Full Retirement Age, Age Discrimination, and the Physical Challenges of Work

David Neumark and Joanne Song

2012: Communication with Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Psychiatric Disabilities: A Summary of the Literature

Walton O. Schalick III MD PhD, Cecelia Westbrook and Brittany Young

2012: Behavioral Effects of Social Security Policies on Benefit Claiming, Retirement and Saving

Alan Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier

2012: Induced Entry into the Social Security Disability Program: Using Past SGA Changes as a Natural Experiment

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and Gema Zamarro

2012: Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt

Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and Alexander Strand

2012: Spousal Labor Supply Responses to Government Programs: Evidence from the Disability Insurance Program

Susan Chen

2011: Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis

Angela Duckworth and David Weir

2011: Macroeconomic Conditions and Updating of Expectations by Older Americans

Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt

2011: The Effects of the Financial Crisis on Actual and Anticipated Consumption

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2011: How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study?

Alan Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

2011: Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

David Autor, Nicole Maestas, Kathleen Mullen and Alexander Strand

2011: Earnings Growth versus Measures of Income and Education for Predicting Mortality

Harriet Orcutt Duleep and David Jaeger

2011: Consumption and Differential Mortality

Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder

2011: The Influence of Public Policy on Health, Wealth and Mortality

John Scholz and Ananth Seshadri

2011: The Importance of State Anti-Discrimination Laws on Employer Accommodation and the Movement of their Employees onto Social Security Disability Insurance

Richard Burkhauser, Lauren Nicholas and Maximilian Schmeiser

2011: Effects of Legal and Unauthorized Immigration on the U.S. Social Security System

Hugo Benitez-Silva, Eva Carceles-Poveda and Selçuk Eren

2011: Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

David Neumark and Joanne Song

2011: Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Labor Supply

Jingjing Chai, Raimond Maurer, Olivia Mitchell and Ralph Rogalla

2011: First-Round Impacts of the 2008 Chilean Pension System Reform

Jere Behrman, María Calderón, Olivia Mitchell, Javiera Vasquez and David Bravo

2011: The Effects of Changes in Women’s Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula

Alan Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai

2011: The Labor Supply Effects of Disability Insurance: Evidence from Automatic Conversion Using Administrative Data

Nicole Maestas and Jae Song