the Current Population Survey and Health and Retirement Study, we employ a difference-in-differences strategy to compare …

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 …

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women … nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival … of a new grandchild is associated with a more than eight percent increase in the retirement hazard despite little overall …

Many organizations provide retirement planning seminars to their employees as a benefit to help them make better … informed retirement decisions.  This study examines the participants in 85 seminars conducted by five companies in 2008 and … 2009 to determine how much learning takes place and whether employees adjust retirement plans.  Using surveys conducted …

with qualified retirement plans affected plan distributions at TIAA-CREF, a large retirement services provider. Using panel … data on retirement plan participants at TIAA-CREF, we find that roughly one third of those who were affected by minimum … distributions to finance consumption. We supplement these results based on administrative record data on retirement plan …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the … the labor force participation of younger persons in twelve countries. We found no evidence that increasing the employment … of older persons will reduce the employment opportunities of youth and no evidence that increasing the employment of …

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the effects of the Great Recession on the wealth … held by the near retirement age population from 2006 to 2012. For the Early Boomer cohort (ages 51 to 56 in 2004), real … part of the story. The assets held by members of the cohort nearing retirement at the onset of the recession would normally …

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the effects of Social Security's Windfall … worked in uncovered government employment where they also earned a pension. Unlike previous studies, we take explicit account … before retirement. Households affected by both WEP and GPO lose about one third of their benefit. Limiting the reduction in …