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Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias : Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information
Jeong, Yeongmi; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Skira, Meghan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Genetic factors play a major role in the development of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Observable genetic factors could impact household planning and medical care if they contain actionable information, meaning that they i) are associated with significant harms, ii) reflect...
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Labor Supply and the Pension-Contribution Link
French, Eric; Lindner, Attila; O'Dea, Cormac; Zawisza, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We estimate the impact of public pension systems on labor supply far from the normal retirement age by exploiting Poland's switch from a Defined Benefit to a Notional Defined Contribution scheme for men born after 1948. Using the universe of taxpayers and this sharp cohort-based discontinuity in...
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Older Workers' Employment and Social Security Spillovers through the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Goda, Gopi Shah; Jackson, Emilie; Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of unemployment insurance and work from home. We use Current Population Survey and Social Security application data to … expiration of expanded unemployment insurance, we find that the loss of these additional financial supports is associated with a … drop in older adult unemployment rates and an increase in Social Security Disability Insurance claiming. Social Security …
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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies
Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …
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The Influence of Occupational Licensing on Workforce Transitions to Retirement
Oh, Yun Taek; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Ways of leaving the labor force has been an understudied aspect of labor market outcomes. Labor market institutions such as occupational licensing may influence how individuals transition to retirement. When and how workers transition from career jobs to full retirement may contribute to pre-...
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Retirement Benefit Distributions for California Educators
Clark, Robert L.; Pelletier, Denis; Ritter, Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Distribution choices by individuals retiring from CalSTRS are examined for participants that retired between 2016 and 2023. Women are much more likely to select a member-only annuity while a larger proportion of men select a J&S annuity that provide survivor benefits. Being married is a dominant...
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Frames, Incentives, and Education : Effectiveness of Interventions to Delay Public Pension Claiming
Glenzer, Franca; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Staubli, Stefan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many people forgo a higher stream of public pension income by claiming early. We provide both quasi-experimental and survey-experimental evidence that the timing of public pension claiming is relatively inelastic to changes in financial incentives in Canada. Using the survey experiment, we...
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Do Older Adults Accurately Forecast Their Social Security Benefits?
Seiter, Grant M.; Slavov, Sita N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How accurate are older people's expectations about their future Social Security benefits? Using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, we compare respondents' observed Social Security claiming ages and benefits with subjective expectations provided during their 50s and early 60s. We...
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Why Do Older Scholars Slow Down?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kosnik, Lea-Rachel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using data describing all "Top 5" economics journal publications from 1969-2018, we examine what determines which authors produce less as they age and which retire earlier. Sub-field has no impact on the rate of production, but interacts with it to alter retirement probabilities. A positive,...
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outcomes : Impacts of Outreach
Viceisza, Angelino C. G.; Calhoun, Amaia; Lee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review select literature on racial and ethnic disparities in retirement outcomes and the impact of outreach on such outcomes. First, there are significant disparities in retirement outcomes, reflecting a long history of racism and structural barriers. Second, there is comparatively little...
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