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The Social Security Windfall Elimination and Government Pension Offset Provisions for Public Employees in the Health and Retirement Study
Gustman, Alan L. - 2015
This article uses Health and Retirement Study data to investigate the effects of Social Security's Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) on Social Security benefits received by households. The provisions reduce benefits for individuals or the dependents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033024
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Social Security Research at the Michigan Retirement Research Center
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Gustman, Alan L.; Laitner, John; … - 2011
The Office of Retirement and Disability Policy at the Social Security Administration created the Retirement Research Consortium in 1998 to encourage research on topics related to Social Security and the well-being of older Americans, and to foster communication between the academic and policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200096
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Effects of Pensions on Saving : Analysis with Data from the Health and Retirement Study
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2021
a simple life cycle explanation for savings. They also raise questions about whether pensions are fundamentally a tax … and Retirement Study (HRS), and the role of pensions in forming retirement wealth. Pension coverage is widespread … those with pensions than for those without pensions. Multivariate regressions relating total wealth to pension coverage and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210559
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Effects of Pensions on Saving : Analysis with Data from the Health and Retirement Study
Gustman, Alan L. - 1998
a simple life cycle explanation for savings. They also raise questions about whether pensions are fundamentally a tax … and Retirement Study (HRS), and the role of pensions in forming retirement wealth. Pension coverage is widespread … those with pensions than for those without pensions. Multivariate regressions relating total wealth to pension coverage and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472131
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Retirement, Saving, Benefit Claiming and Solvency Under a Partial System of Voluntary Personal Accounts
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2008
This paper is based on a structural model of retirement and saving, estimated with data for a sample of married men in the Health and Retirement Study. The model simulates how various features of a system of personal Social Security accounts jointly affects retirement, saving, the choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220263
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Understanding Patterns of Social Security Benefit Receipt, Pensions Incomes, Retirement and Saving by Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Marital Status : A Structural Approach
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2008
In this paper we use data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine differences in retirement behavior, wealth, Social Security and pension benefits by race and gender. The differences observed among groups are sometimes substantial. We then estimate models jointly explaining retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220324
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Social Security Research at the University of Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center
Laitner, John - 2020
In 1998, the Social Security Administration established the Retirement Research Consortium to encourage research on topics related to Social Security and the well-being of older Americans, and to foster communication between the academic and policy communities. The Michigan Retirement Research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841709
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Behavioral Effects of Social Security Policies on Benefit Claiming, Retirement and Saving
Gustman, Alan L. - 2012
This paper specifies three behavioral variants of a structural model of retirement and saving to bring predicted Social Security claiming rates closer to the rates observed in the data. The model, estimated with Health and Retirement Study data, is used to examine three potential policies:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100567
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Effects of Social Security Policies on Benefit Claiming, Retirement and Saving
Gustman, Alan L. - 2013
An enhanced version of a structural model jointly explains benefit claiming, wealth and retirement, including reversals from states of lesser to greater work. The model includes stochastic returns on assets. Estimated with Health and Retirement Study data, it does a better job of predicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081500
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Retirement and Wealth
Gustman, Alan L. - 2001
of pensions and social security that better reflects the accrual of benefits under defined contribution plans. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470495