determining retirement, spousal, and survivor benefits, along with benefit adjustments that vary with the age at which these are … consistent with empirical evidence. We also confirm predictions that wives will claim retirement benefits earlier than husbands …

leisure would predict a decrease in labor supply for both spouses. Utilizing a mid-1990s expansion of health insurance for U … the Current Population Survey and Health and Retirement Study, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to compare … supply increases, suggesting that financial incentives dominate complementarities of spousal leisure. This effect is …

A central justification for social insurance and for other policies aimed at retirement savings is that individuals may … payroll taxes and other withholding to fund retirement savings as akin to an income tax, while largely ignoring the distant … future retirement benefits that they fund? If so, the distortion of labor supply may be many times higher than otherwise …

This paper presents new empirical evidence on the effects of retirement benefits on labor force participation decisions … changes in retirement benefits from the Austrian pension system. We present graphical evidence documenting labor supply …. These relatively low elasticities highlight that many retirement decisions are likely to be affected by factors beyond only …

Social Security benefits that accrue with additional earnings on three measures of labor supply: retirement, hours, and labor … discontinuities as uncertainty about the future is resolved. We find clear evidence that individuals approaching retirement (age 52 … estimate that a 10 percent increase in the net-of-tax share reduces the two-year retirement hazard by a statistically …

is estimated using data from the Health and Retirement Study. We compare results based on our model to results based on … the normal retirement age, eliminating early retirement altogether and eliminating the Social Security Disability …