When adult children provide care for their aging parents, they often do so at great expense to themselves incurring … Health and Retirement Study that included questions on motivations for, and concerns with, the provision of familial …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS) using empirical estimates from a structural model of the impact of employer matching on …

earnings on those contributions are awarded as a lump sum at retirement. Although the majority of workers lucky enough to have …

Employer matching of employee 401(k) contributions can provide a powerful incentive to save for retirement. We examine … administrative contribution, earnings, and pension plan data from the Health and Retirement Study and estimate that the elasticity of …

All major industrial countries will experience significant population aging over the next several decades. In both … academic circles and the business press it is widely believed that population aging will have important effects on financial … on the macroeconomic and asset market effects of population aging, focusing on four related issues: (a) The impact of …

retirement earnings test for those aged 65-69, on the labor supply of older men using data from the 1996-2004 waves of the Health … and Retirement Study (HRS). Based on reduced-form specifications, we find that the repeal of the earnings test increased …

little to increase retirement preparedness among lower-income groups. …

Because most workers receive health benefits from their employers, retirement often disrupts health insurance coverage … retiree benefits from their own employers or their spouses’ employers delay retirement to age 65, when Medicare coverage … after retirement. Today most workers with employer health benefits retain their coverage when they retire early, although …