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Key Findings

2009
Mortality Contingent Claims: Impact of Capital Market, Income, and Interest Rate Risk  by Wolfram J. Horneff and Raimond H. Maurer
WP 2009-222, View: Key Findings
The Level and Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending  by Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
WP 2009-218, View: Key Findings
Marking Social Security's Open Group Liability to Market  by Paul Anton Koehler and Laurence J. Kotlikoff
WP 2009-217, View: Key Findings
Financial Literacy and Financial Sophistication in the Older Population: Evidence from the 2008 HRS  by Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell and Vilsa Curto
WP 2009-216, View: Key Findings
Proximity and Coresidence of Adult Children and their Parents: Description and Correlates  by Janice Compton and Robert A. Pollak
WP 2009-215, View: Key Findings
What Replace Rates Should Households Use?  by John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri
WP 2009-214, View: Key Findings
Gain and Loss: Marriage and Wealth Changes Over Time  by Julie Zissimopoulos
WP 2009-213, View: Key Findings
The Displacement Effect of Public Pensions on the Accumulation of Financial Assets  by Michael Hurd, Pierre-Carl Michaud and Susann Rohwedder
WP 2009-212, View: Key Findings
Buffering Shocks to Well-Being Late in Life  by Matthew D. Shapiro
WP 2009-211, View: Key Findings
Social Security Literacy and Retirement Well-Being  by Hugo A. Benítez-Silva, Berna Demiralp and Zhen Liu
WP 2009-210, View: Key Findings
Investor Behavior and Fund Performance under a Privatized Retirement Accounts System: Evidence from Chile   by Elena Krasnokutskaya and Petra Todd
WP 2009-209, View: Key Findings
Income, Material Hardship, and the Use of Public Programs among the Elderly  by Helen Levy
WP 2009-208, View: Key Findings
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.  by Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith and Arthur van Soest
WP 2009-207, View: Key Findings
How Do Pension Changes Affect Retirement Preparedness? The Trend to Defined Contribution Plans and the Vulnerability of the Retirement Age Population to the Stock Market Decline of 2008-2009  by Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai
WP 2009-206, View: Key Findings
Retirement in a Life Cycle Model of Labor Supply with Home Production  by Richard Rogerson and Johanna Wallenius
WP 2009-205, View: Key Findings
Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts  by Jing Jing Chai, Wolfram J. Horneff, Raimond H. Maurer and Olivia S. Mitchell
WP 2009-204, View: Key Findings
The Efficiency of Pension Menus and Individual Portfolio Choice in 401(k) Pensions  by Ning Tang, Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary R. Mottola and Stephen P. Utkus
WP 2009-203, View: Key Findings
Social Security Rules and Labor Force Participation of Older Workers: Evidence from Chile  by Alejandra Cox Edwards and Estelle James
WP 2008-202, View: Key Findings
Financial Literacy among the Young  by Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. Mitchell and Vilsa Curto
WP 2008-191, View: Key Findings
 
2008 [Top]
How Much Do Respondents in the Health and Retirement Study Know About Their Tax-deferred Contribution Plans? A Cross-cohort Comparison  by Irena Dushi and Marjorie Honig
WP 2008-201, View: Key Findings
Saving among Low-Income Women: Motivation and Obstacles  by Helen Levy and Kristin S. Seefeldt
WP 2008-199, View: Key Findings
The Optimal Design of Social Security Benefits  by Shinichi Nishiyama and Kent Smetters
WP 2008-197, View: Key Findings
Pension Reform in Mexico: The Evolution of Pension Fund Management Fees and their Effect on Pension Balances  by Emma Aguila, Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
WP 2008-196, View: Key Findings
How Do Lower-Income Families Think about Retirement?  by Helen Levy and Kristin S. Seefeldt
WP 2008-195, View: Key Findings
Labor Market and Immigration Behavior of Middle-Aged and Elderly Mexicans  by Emma Aguila and Julie Zissimopoulos
WP 2008-192, View: Key Findings
Are All Americans Saving ‘Optimally’ for Retirement?  by John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri
WP 2008-189, View: Key Findings
Curing the Dutch Disease: Lessons for United States Disability Policy  by Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly and Philip R. de Jong
WP 2008-188, View: Key Findings
The Transformation in Who is Expected to Work in the United States and How it Changed the Lives of Single Mothers and People with Disabilities  by Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly, Jeff Larrimore and Joyce Kwok
WP 2008-187, View: Key Findings
Retirement Wealth Across Cohorts: The Role of Earnings Inequality and Pension Changes  by Ann Huff Stevens
WP 2008-186, View: Key Findings
The Ability of Various Measures of Fatness to Predict Application for Disability Insurance  by Richard V. Burkhauser, John H. Cawley and Maximilian Schmeiser
WP 2008-185, View: Key Findings
The Adequacy of Economic Resources in Retirement  by Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
WP 2008-184, View: Key Findings
Early Retirement, Labor Supply, and Benefit Withholding: The Role of the Social Security Earnings Test  by Hugo A. Benítez-Silva and Frank Heiland
WP 2008-183, View: Key Findings
Individuals’ Responses to Social Security Reform  by Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder
WP 2008-182, View: Key Findings
Immigrant-Native Fertility and Mortality Differentials in the United States  by Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt
WP 2008-181, View: Key Findings
Marital Histories and Economic Well-Being  by Julie Zissimopoulos, Benjamin Karney and Amy J. Rauer
WP 2008-180, View: Key Findings
How Does Modeling of Retirement Decisions at the Family Level Affect Estimates of the Impact of Social Security Policies on Retirement?  by Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
WP 2008-179, View: Key Findings
Forecasting Labor Force Participation and Economic Resources of the Early Baby Boomers  by Pierre-Carl Michaud and Susann Rohwedder
WP 2008-175, View: Key Findings
 
2007 [Top]
Housing Wealth and Retirement Timing  by Martin Farnham and Purvi Sevak
WP 2007-172, View: Key Findings
The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior  by Eric French and John Bailey Jones
WP 2007-170, View: Key Findings
How do Immigrants Fare in Retirement?  by Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt
WP 2007-169, View: Key Findings
Estimating the Health Effects of Retirement  by John Bound and Timothy A. Waidmann
WP 2007-168, View: Key Findings
Managing the Risk of Life  by Adeline Delavande and Robert J. Willis
WP 2007-167, View: Key Findings
Burnout and the Retirement Decision  by Nicole Maestas and Xiaoyan Li
WP 2007-166, View: Key Findings
Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement  by John P. Laitner and Daniel Silverman
WP 2007-165, View: Key Findings
Future Beneficiary Expectations of the Returns to Delayed Social Security Benefit Claiming and Choice Behavior  by Jeff Dominitz, Angela Hung and Arthur van Soest
WP 2007-164, View: Key Findings
Take-Up of Medicare Part D and the SSA Subsidy: Early Results from the Health and Retirement Study  by Helen Levy and David Weir
WP 2007-163, View: Key Findings
Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation  by Maarten van Rooij, Annamaria Lusardi and Rob Alessie
WP 2007-162, View: Key Findings
The Impact of Private Participation on Disability Costs: Evidence from Chile  by Estelle James, Alejandra Cox Edwards and Augusto Iglesias Palau
WP 2007-161, View: Key Findings
Are 401(k) Saving Rates Changing? Cohort/Period Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study  by Irena Dushi and Marjorie Honig
WP 2007-160, View: Key Findings
Subjective Survival Probabilities in the Health and Retirement Study: Systematic Biases and Predictive Validity  by Todd Elder
WP 2007-159, View: Key Findings
Children and Household Wealth  by John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri
WP 2007-158, View: Key Findings
Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning: New Evidence from the Rand American Life Panel  by Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
WP 2007-157, View: Key Findings
A Longitudinal Analysis of Entries and Exits of the Low-Income Elderly to and from the Supplemental Security Income Program  by Elizabeth Powers and Todd Elder
WP 2007-156, View: Key Findings
The Effect of Retirement Incentives on Retirement Behavior: Evidence from the Self-Employed in the United States and England  by Julie Zissimopoulos, Nicole Maestas and Lynn Karoly
WP 2007-155, View: Key Findings
Winners and Losers: 401(k) Trading and Portfolio Performance  by Takeshi Yamaguchi, Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary R. Mottola and Stephen P. Utkus
WP 2007-154, View: Key Findings
Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies  by Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
WP 2007-153, View: Key Findings
Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement  by Wolfram J. Horneff, Raimond H. Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell and Michael Z. Stamos
WP 2007-152, View: Key Findings
Labor Market Status and Transitions During the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences  by Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest and James Banks
WP 2007-149, View: Key Findings
 
2006 [Top]
The Importance of Objective Health Measures in Predicting Early Receipt of Social Security Benefits: The Case of Fatness  by Richard V. Burkhauser and John H. Cawley
WP 2006-148, View: Key Findings
Crowd-out, Adverse Selection and Information in Annuity Markets: Evidence from a New Retrospective Data Set in Chile  by Alejandra Cox Edwards and Estelle James
WP 2006-147, View: Key Findings
Home Production by Dual Earner Couples and Consumption During Retirement  by Christopher House, John P. Laitner and Dmitriy Stolyarov
WP 2006-143, View: Key Findings
Consumption, Retirement, and Social Security: Evaluating the Efficiency of Reform with a Life-Cycle Model  by John P. Laitner and Daniel Silverman
WP 2006-142, View: Key Findings
Self-Assessed Retirement Outcomes: Determinants and Pathways  by Susann Rohwedder
WP 2006-141, View: Key Findings
Taxes, Wages, and the Labor Supply of Older Americans  by Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak
WP 2006-139, View: Key Findings
A Dynamic Model of Retirement and Social Security Reform Expectations: A Solution to the New Early Retirement Puzzle  by Hugo A. Benítez-Silva, Debra Sabatini Dwyer and Warren C. Sanderson
WP 2006-134, View: Key Findings
Discouraged Workers? Job Search Outcomes of Older Workers  by Nicole Maestas and Xiaoyan Li
WP 2006-133, View: Key Findings
Savings Between Cohorts: the Role of Planning  by Annamaria Lusardi and Jason Beeler
WP 2006-122, View: Key Findings
The Role of Conventional Retirement Age in Retirement Decisions  by Charles Brown
WP 2006-120, View: Key Findings
Savings, Portfolio Choice, and Retirement Expectations  by Arthur van Soest and Arie Kapteyn
WP 2006-119, View: Key Findings
The Impact of Misperceptions about Social Security on Saving and Well-being  by Susann Rohwedder and Arthur van Soest
WP 2006-118, View: Key Findings
Public Health Insurance and SSI Program Participation Among the Aged  by Todd Elder and Elizabeth Powers
WP 2006-117, View: Key Findings
Social Security Replacement Rates for Alternative Earnings Benchmarks  by Olivia S. Mitchell and John W. R. Phillips
WP 2006-116, View: Key Findings
The Inattentive Participant: Portfolio Trading Behavior in 401(k) Plans  by Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary R. Mottola, Stephen P. Utkus and Takeshi Yamaguchi
WP 2006-115, View: Key Findings