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2008
Are All Americans Saving Adequately for Retirement (UM08-01)
John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri
Immigrant-Native Fertility and Mortality Differentials in the United States (UM08-02)
Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt
How Does Modeling of Retirement Decisions at the Family Level Affect Estimates of the Impact of Social Security Policies on Retirement? (UM08-03)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
The Effect of Medicare and Social Security Benefits on the Timing of Retirement (UM08-04)
Wojciech Kopczuk and Jae Song
How Much Do Respondents in the Health and Retirement Study Know About Their 401(k)s? A Cross-cohort Comparison (UM08-05)
Marjorie Honig and Irena Dushi
Time, Expenditure, and Retirement Decisions (UM08-06)
Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst
Early Social Security Claiming and Cognitive Resources (UM08-07)
Adeline Delavande and Robert J. Willis
Individuals’ Uncertainty about Their Future Social Security Benefits (UM08-08)
Adeline Delavande and Susann Rohwedder
Early Retirement, Labor Supply, and Benefit Withholding (UM08-09)
Hugo A. Benítez-Silva and Frank Heiland
Marital Histories and Economic Well-Being (UM08-10)
Julie Zissimopoulos, Amy J. Rauer and Benjamin Karney
Adequacy of Economic Resources in Retirement: Model-Based Estimations (UM08-11)
Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior Across the Life-Cycle (UM08-12)
Annamaria Lusardi
Labor Supply Effects of the Interaction Between Social Security Disability and Retirement Benefits (UM08-13)
Nicole Maestas
Labor Market and Immigration Behavior of Middle-Aged and Elderly Mexicans (UM08-14)
Emma Aguila and Julie Zissimopoulos
How Do Low-Income Families Think about Retirement? (UM08-15)
Helen Levy and Kristin S. Seefeldt
Pension Reform in Mexico: The Effect of Personal Retirement Accounts on Preparation for Retirement (UM08-16)
Emma Aguila, Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
The Impact of Fatness on Disability Insurance Application by the Non-Elderly (UM08-17)
Richard V. Burkhauser and John H. Cawley
Retirement Wealth Across Cohorts: The Role of Earnings Inequality and Pension Changes (UM08-18)
Ann Huff Stevens
The Optimal Design of Social Security (UM08-19)
Kent Smetters and Shinichi Nishiyama
The Efficiency of Pension Plan Investment Menus: Investment Choices in Defined Contribution Pensions (UM08-20)
Olivia S. Mitchell
Are Early Retirees Less Healthy? The Role of Health in Social Security Claiming Decisions (UM08-21)
Nicole Maestas and Xiaoyan Li
How Pension Rules Affect Work and Contribution Patterns: a Behavioral Model of the Chilean Privatized Pension System (UM08-22)
Petra Todd and Viviana Vélez-Grajales
Work and Retirement Choices of Women: The Impact of Social Security Rules in Chile (UM08-23)
Alejandra Cox Edwards and Estelle James
The Impact of Social Security Benefits on Household Life Cycle Asset Allocation and Asset Location (UM08-24)
Raimond H. Maurer
2007	[Top]
Experimental Analysis of Delayed Social Security Claiming (UM07-01)
Jeff Dominitz and Angela Hung
A Longitudinal Analysis of Entry of the Low-Income Elderly into the Supplemental Security Income Program (UM07-02)
Elizabeth Powers and Todd Elder
A Model of Unretirement (UM07-03)
Nicole Maestas
Managing the Risk of Life (UM07-04)
Adeline Delavande and Robert J. Willis
Are 40l(k) Saving Rates Changing? Cohort/Period Evidence from the HRS (UM07-05)
Irena Dushi and Marjorie Honig
Extra Help: Take-up of the Social Security Administration’s Low-Income Subsidy Program for Part D of Medicare in 2006. (UM07-06)
David Weir and Helen Levy
Adequacy of Economic Resources in Retirement and Returns-to-scale in Consumption (UM07-07)
Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
Estimating the Health Effects of Changes in Retirement Age (UM07-08)
John Bound and Timothy A. Waidmann
How do Immigrants Fare in Retirement? (UM07-09)
Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt
Planning and Financial Literacy Among US Households: New Evidence from the Rand Internet Panel (UM07-10)
Annamaria Lusardi
Investment Patterns and Trading Behavior in 401(k) Pension Accounts (UM07-11)
Olivia S. Mitchell
Children and Household Wealth (UM07-12)
John Karl Scholz and Ananth Seshadri
The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior. (UM07-13)
John Bailey Jones and Eric French
Work and retirement choices of men: the impact of social security rules in Chile (UM07-14)
Estelle James and Alejandra Cox Edwards
Trends in the Labor Force Participation of Married Women (UM07-15)
Christopher House, John P. Laitner and Dmitriy Stolyarov
Private Pensions and Decisions of When to Retire (UM07-16)
John P. Laitner and Daniel Silverman
The Role of Fixed and Variable Annuities in Life-Cycle Asset Allocation (UM07-17)
Raimond H. Maurer
A Cross-National Comparison of Self-employment Dynamics at Older Ages (UM07-18)
Julie Zissimopoulos, Lynn Karoly and Nicole Maestas
Errors in Subjective Survival Probabilities: Prevalence and Behavioral Responses. (UM07-19)
Todd Elder
Housing Prices, "Bubbles" and Retirement Timing (UM07-20)
Martin Farnham and Purvi Sevak
Forecasting Labor Force Participation and Economic Resources of the Early Baby-Boomers (UM07-21)
Susann Rohwedder and Pierre-Carl Michaud
2006	[Top]
Enhancing the Quality of Data on Income and Wealth (UM06-01)
F. Thomas Juster, Daniel H. Hill, Honggao Cao and Michael Perry
How Changes in Social Security Affect Retirement Trends (UM06-02)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Alternative Measures of Replacement Rates (UM06-03)
Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
Household Savings and Retirement: Expectations and Realizations (UM06-04)
Steven J. Haider and Mel Stephens Jr.
Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare? (UM06-05)
Annamaria Lusardi
Trading Behavior in Personal Accounts: Lessons from 401(k) Pension Participants (UM06-06)
Olivia S. Mitchell
Personal Social Security Accounts: Quantifying the Macro and Efficiency Effects II (UM06-07)
Shinichi Nishiyama and Kent Smetters
Labor Supply of Older Americans: Effects of Tax Rates and Tax Treatment of Pension and Social Security Income (UM06-08)
Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak
Probabilistic Thinking and Early Social Security Claiming (UM06-09)
Robert J. Willis and Adeline Delavande
Home Production by Dual Earner Couples and Consumption During Retirement (UM06-10)
Christopher House, John P. Laitner and Dmitriy Stolyarov
Designing Optimal Pension Payouts Using Life Annuities and Phased Withdrawals: A Portfolio Approach (UM06-11)
Raimond H. Maurer
Financial Risk, Retirement, Saving and Investment (UM06-12)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
The Effect of Abolishing the Earnings Test on Labor Market Behavior Before Age 65 (UM06-13)
Pierre-Carl Michaud and Arthur van Soest
Pathways to Bad Retirement Outcomes (UM06-14)
Susann Rohwedder
The Role of Spousal Health Insurance Provision in Retirement Decisions (UM06-15)
Jody Schimmel
Assessing the Risks and the Costs of the Risks Posed by Social Security’s Potential Insolvency (UM06-16)
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Evaluating Social Security Reforms using Probabilistic Population Forecasts in a Life-cycle Model of Social Insurance (UM06-17)
Warren C. Sanderson, Hugo A. Benítez-Silva and Debra Sabatini Dwyer
Health Risk in Retirement and Retirement Wealth (UM06-18)
Purvi Sevak and Lina Walker
Who Annuitizes and How Do System Rules Shape These Choices? The Case of Chile (UM06-19)
Estelle James and Alejandra Cox Edwards
Retirement Savings Portfolio Management (UM06-20)
Jeff Dominitz and Angela Hung
Rising Economic Risk and the Labor Supply of Older Workers (UM06-21)
Nicole Maestas
The Dynamics of Work-Related Health and Labor Market Status: An International Comparison (UM06-22)
Arie Kapteyn, Arthur van Soest, James P. Smith and James Banks
Using New Measures of Fatness to Improve Estimates of Early Entry onto the OASI Rolls (UM06-23)
John H. Cawley and Richard V. Burkhauser
2005	[Top]
Social Security Eligibility, Benefit Levels, and Replacement Rates in the HRS (UM05-01)
Olivia S. Mitchell, Sylvester J. Schieber and John W. R. Phillips
Retirement, Saving, Benefit Claiming and Solvency Under A Partial System of Voluntary Personal Accounts (UM05-02)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Understanding Global Aging (UM05-03)
Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Hans Fehr
Technological Progress and Worker Productivity at Different Ages (UM05-04)
John P. Laitner and Dmitriy Stolyarov
Social Security and Retirement Dynamics (UM05-05)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Enhancing Data Quality through Longitudinal Imputation: Studies of the Income and Asset Data from HRS and AHEAD (UM05-06)
F. Thomas Juster, Daniel H. Hill, Honggao Cao and Michael Perry
Secure Data Environment and Development of Remote Data Access Facilities (UM05-07)
Robert J. Willis and Michael Nolte
Consumption and Economic Well-Being at Older Ages (UM05-08)
Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
Planning, Financial Literacy, and Retirement Wealth (UM05-09)
Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
The Impact of Misperceptions about Social Security on Saving and Well-Being (UM05-10)
Susann Rohwedder and Arthur van Soest
The Role of Conventional Retirement Age in Retirement Decisions (UM05-11)
Charles Brown
Gender, Marriage, and Asset Accumulation in the United States (UM05-12)
Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak
How to Integrate Disability Benefits into a System with Individual Accounts: The Chilean Model (UM05-13)
Estelle James
Savings, Portfolio Choice, and Retirement (UM05-14)
Arthur van Soest and Arie Kapteyn
Personal Social Security Accounts: Quantifying the Macro and Efficiency Effects (UM05-15)
Kent Smetters
Changing Health Insurance Options and SSI Participation Among the Elderly (UM05-16)
Todd Elder and Elizabeth Powers
Market and Non-Market Activities of Older Americans (UM05-18)
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Efficiency Gains and Social Security Reform (UM05-19)
John P. Laitner and Daniel Silverman
Estimating the Life Cycle Effects of Subjective Survival Probabilities in the Health and Retirement Study (UM05-S1)
Michael Perry
Trading Behavior in 401(k) Plans (UM05-S2)
Takeshi Yamaguchi
The Role of Health Insurance in Unretirement Decisions (UM05-S4)
Joshua Congdon-Hohman
2004	[Top]
The Social Security Retirement Earnings Test, Retirement, Benefit Claiming, and the Effects of Abolishing the Earnings Test with and without Individual Accounts. (UM04-01)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Pareto Improving Personal Accounts (UM04-02)
Kent Smetters
Health and Annuities for the Older Population (UM04-03)
Olivia S. Mitchell and Cassio Turra
Evaluating Social Security's Liabilities (UM04-04)
Kent Smetters
The Impact of the 1972 Social Security Increase on Household Consumption (UM04-05)
Mel Stephens Jr.
Using a Structural Retirement Model to Simulate the Effect of Changes to the OASDI and Medicare Programs (UM04-06)
John Bound and Timothy A. Waidmann
Do Individual Retirement Account Systems Postpone Retirement?: Evidence from Chile (UM04-07)
Estelle James and Alejandra Cox Edwards
Obesity, Disability and the Movement onto the DI and SSI Rolls (UM04-08)
Richard V. Burkhauser and John H. Cawley
Continued Development and Public Dissemination of RAND HRS Data (UM04-09)
Michael Hurd
Development of a Longitudinally Consistent Dataset for the Health and Retirement Study (UM04-10)
F. Thomas Juster, Joseph P Lupton, Michael Perry and Honggao Cao
Secure Data Environment and Development of Remote Data Access Facilities (UM04-11)
Robert J. Willis
Self-Annuitization in Personal Accounts: Perspectives from the German Experience (UM04-12)
Olivia S. Mitchell and Raimond H. Maurer
Changes in Consumption and Activities in Retirement (UM04-13)
Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
Life-Cycle Saving in Dual-Earner Households (UM04-14)
John P. Laitner, Christopher House and Dmitriy Stolyarov
How Retirement Wealth Shortfalls Change with Age (UM04-C1)
Olivia S. Mitchell and John W. R. Phillips
Research Agenda for Global Aging (UM04-Q1)
Axel H. Börsch-Supan
Household Propensities to Plan for Retirement: A Life Cycle Analysis (UM04-S1)
Erik Hurst
2003	[Top]
Papers on International Social Insurance Program Reform (UM03-01)
Agar Brugiavini and Axel H. Börsch-Supan
Lifetime Uncertainty and Social Security Reform (UM03-02)
John P. Laitner
How To Evaluate the Effects of Social Security Policies on Retirement and Saving When Firm Policies Affect the Opportunities Facing Older Individuals (UM03-03)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Characteristics Of And Determinants Of The Density Of Contributions in a Private Social Security System (UM03-04)
David Bravo, Jere Behrman and Osvaldo Larrañaga
How Attractive Are Guarantees In Social Security Personal Retirement Accounts? (UM03-05)
Olivia S. Mitchell and Alexander Muermann
The Impact of Financial Education On Savings And Asset Allocation (UM03-06)
Annamaria Lusardi
How Will the Annuities Market Develop If Social Security Includes Individual Accounts? The Case of Chile (UM03-07)
Estelle James, Guillermo Martínez Barros and Augusto Iglesias Palau
Changes in Income, Wealth, or Medical Expenses? A New Look at the Causes of Poverty Among Widows (UM03-08)
Robert F. Schoeni and Kathleen McGarry
Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Decisions of Older Americans (UM03-09)
Hugo A. Benítez-Silva
Consumption and Time-Use Before and After Retirement (UM03-10)
Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
Household Retirement Expectations, Social Security Reform, and Savings Adequacy (UM03-11)
Hugo A. Benítez-Silva and Debra Sabatini Dwyer
Welfare Measures in a Stochastic Production Economy with Overlapping Generations: An Application to Social Security Reform (UM03-12)
Kent Smetters
Understanding Patterns of Social Security Benefit Receipt, Pensions Incomes, Retirement and Saving By Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Marital Status: A Structured Approach (UM03-13)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Take-up of the Supplemental Security Income Program by the Low-Income Elderly: Interactions with the Social Security System (UM03-14)
Elizabeth Powers and Todd Elder
Back to Work: Trends in Post-Retirement Employment (UM03-15)
Nicole Maestas
Impact of the 1996 SSI Childhood Disability Reforms on Affected Children and Families (UM03-C1)
Paul S. Davies and Lynn Karoly
Dissertation Research: "Elderly Households and Housing Wealth: Do They Use It or Lose It?" (UM03-D1)
Lina Walker
Dissertation Research: "Defined Benefit Pension Plan Liabilities and International Asset Allocation" (UM03-D2)
Tongxuan Yang
Dissertation Research: "The Employment of Working Age People with Disabilities: A Comparison of PSID and CPS Results" (UM03-D3)
Johan Mathis Schröder
Stochastic Modeling of Trust Fund using Assumptions from 2002 OASDI Trustees Report (UM03-Q1)
Ronald D. Lee
Jr Scholar Research: "Do The Newly Retired Adjust Their Consumption or Labor Supply When Their Retirement Wealth Drops?" (UM03-S1)
Purvi Sevak
Jr Scholar Research: "Testing for Adverse Selection in South African Annuitant Data" (UM03-S2)
David McCarthy
2002	[Top]
The Annuity Puzzle Revisited: Implications for Social Security Reform (UM02-01)
Hugo A. Benítez-Silva
Using the Health and Retirement Study to Simulate the Effects of Voluntary and Mandatory Systems of Social Security Privatization (UM02-02)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Endogenous Labor Supply Responses to Social Security Reform (UM02-03)
John P. Laitner
Subjective Probability Distributions and the Decision to Save (UM02-04)
Robert J. Willis and Gábor Kézdi
Saving for Retirement: Wage Growth and Unexpected Events (UM02-05)
Michael Hurd and Julie Zissimopoulos
A Structural Model of the Family that Jointly Explains Retirement and Saving Behavior, with Analyses of the Effects of Current and Proposed Social Security Policies In A Family Context (UM02-06)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Early Retirement Windows Year 2 (UM02-07)
Charles Brown
Understanding Poverty Among Elderly Divorced Women (UM02-08)
Robert F. Schoeni and Steven J. Haider
How Important are Wages to the Elderly? (UM02-09)
David Loughran and Steven J. Haider
The Retirement Elasticity: Theory and Implications (UM02-10)
Matthew D. Shapiro and Miles S. Kimball
Dynamic Retirement Expectations using the Health and Retirement Study (UM02-11)
Hugo A. Benítez-Silva and Debra Sabatini Dwyer
Implications of High Risk Health Behaviors on Work-Force Participation: Disability, Retirement, and Lost Productivity (UM02-12)
Kenneth M. Langa, Sandeep Vijan and Caroline R. Richardson
Multiple Program Use by Older Americans: Social Security, Early Retirement, and Supplemental Security Income (UM02-13)
Elizabeth Powers and David Neumark
Welfare Reform and Immigrant Participation in the SSI Program (UM02-C1)
Michael J. Greenwood and Paul S. Davies
Representative versus Actual Lifetime Earnings Trajectories (UM02-C2)
Olivia S. Mitchell, John W. R. Phillips and Sylvester J. Schieber
Defined Benefit Pension Plans: a Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach (UM02-D1)
David McCarthy
Guaranteeing Defined Contribution Pensions: the Option to Buy-back a Defined Benefit Promise (UM02-D2)
Marie-Eve Lachance
Ensuring Time-Series Consistency in Estimates of Income and Wealth (UM02-Q3)
F. Thomas Juster
2001	[Top]
Dropping Out of Social Security (UM01-01)
Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser
An Analysis of the Impact of Varying the Social Security Early Entitlement Age and Normal Retirement Age in a Structural Model of Retirement Wealth (UM01-02)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Stochastic Modeling of the Dynamics of OASDI: Evaluation of Policy Alternatives and Behavioral Responses (UM01-03)
Ronald D. Lee and Shripad Tuljapurkar
Early Retirement Windows (UM01-04)
Charles Brown
Modeling the Dynamic Macroeconomic Consequences of Social Security Reform (UM01-05)
John P. Laitner
Health, Wealth, and Gender: Do Health Shocks of Husbands and Wives Have Different Impacts on Household Wealth? (UM01-06)
Jennifer Ward-Batts
Mental Health and Labor Force Exits: The Mediating or Moderating Roles of Physical Health and Job Factors (UM01-07)
Linda Wray
Improving Modeling Behavioral Response to Policy Change: Mircosimulation in the Presence of Heterogeneity (UM01-08)
Constantijn W. A. Panis and Lee Lillard
The Impact of Social Security and Medicare on Retirement Incentives: Exploiting Variation in Coverage (UM01-09)
Steven J. Haider and Beth Asch
Website Access to Stochastic Dynamic Model of OASDI (UM01-10)
Ronald D. Lee and Shripad Tuljapurkar
Implications of Chronic Health Conditions on Work-Force Participation: Disability, Retirement, Caregiving, and Lost Productivity (UM01-11)
Kenneth M. Langa, Sandeep Vijan and Caroline R. Richardson
The Influence of Lifetime Earning Variance on Retirement Wealth (UM01-C1)
Olivia S. Mitchell and John W. R. Phillips
2000	[Top]
Social Security and Retirement Behavior Within the Family: Economic Estimate of a Structural Model Using HRS Employer Provided Pension Data and Social Security Earnings Records (UM00-01)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Saving for Retirement: Implications of Household Bargaining for Social Security and Tax Reform (UM00-02)
Shelly Lundberg and Jennifer Ward-Batts
Stochastic Modeling of the Dynamics of OASDI: Characteristics of Cohort Experience, and Aspects of Risk (UM00-03)
Ronald D. Lee and Shripad Tuljapurkar
Implications of Cognitive and Physical Impairment for Management of Financial Resources Including Individual Accounts (UM00-04)
Lee Lillard and Robert J. Willis
Mortality Risk and Early Retirement (UM00-05)
Michael Hurd and James P. Smith
Applications, Denials and Appeals for Social Security Disability Insurance (UM00-06)
Olivia S. Mitchell and John W. R. Phillips
Imperfect Knowledge, Retirement and Savings (UM00-08)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Families, Markets and Social Insurance (UM00-09)
Robert J. Willis and David Weir
The Role of Social Security Transfer Programs in Protecting Older People Transitioning into Retirement and Widowhood: A Cross-National Perspective (UM00-10)
Richard V. Burkhauser and J.S. Butler
Modeling the Macroeconomic Implications of Social Security Reform (UM00-11)
John P. Laitner
Disability Benefits as Social Insurance: Valuing Changes in DI Benefit Generosity (UM00-12)
John Bound and Julie Berry Cullen
Disability Benefits as Social Insurance: Tradeoffs between Screening Stringency and Benefit Generosity in Optimal Program Design (UM00-13)
John Bound and Timothy A. Waidmann
Dissertation Research: Wealth Shocks and Retirement Timing (UM00-D1)
Purvi Sevak
1999	[Top]
Assessing the Impact of Changes in the Early Social Security Retirement Age (UM99-01)
Olivia S. Mitchell and John W. R. Phillips
Social Security Acceptance, Pension Acceptance, Retirement Dynamics and Wealth Accumulation (UM99-02)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
Tracking the Income of Individuals Applying for Disability Insurance (UM99-03)
John Bound and Richard V. Burkhauser
Redistribution under the Social Security Benefit Formula Based on Intermittent Work History Versus Low Wage Rates (UM99-04)
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
The Impact of Widowhood on the Economic Status of Women (UM99-05)
Robert J. Willis, David Weir and Purvi Sevak
Spouse and Survivor Benefits: Use Rates with Earnings Related Marriage, Divorce and Assortative Mating (UM99-06)
Linda Waite and Lee Lillard
Stochastic Modeling of the Dynamics of OASDI (UM99-07)
Shripad Tuljapurkar and Ronald D. Lee
Risk Sharing Under Alternative Social Security Reform Proposals (UM99-Q1)
Olivia S. Mitchell, Stephen P. Zeldes and John Geanakoplos
Health Limitations and Early Retirement (UM99-Q2)
John Bound, Michael Schoenbaum and Timothy A. Waidmann
Critical Literature Review on the Evidence that Employer Matching Contributions to Defined Contribution Plans Increases Employee Participation in and Contributions to Such Plans (UM99-Q4)
Frank Stafford