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 … before retirement. Households affected by both WEP and GPO lose about one third of their benefit. Limiting the reduction in …

pension benefits and DC balances for those approaching retirement, pensions account for more support in retirement than is …. Estimates from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) for respondents in their early fifties suggest that pension wealth is about … Security. Our empirical analysis uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the reasons for these differences in …

This paper uses asset and labor market data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to investigate how the recent … "Great Recession" has affected the wealth and retirement of those in the population who were just approaching retirement age … at the beginning of the recession, a potentially vulnerable segment of the working age population. The retirement wealth …

This paper advances the specification and estimation of models of retirement and saving in two earner families. The … complications introduced by the interaction of retirement decisions by husbands and wives have led researchers to adopt a number of … simplifications to increase the feasibility of estimating family retirement models. Our model relaxes these restrictions. It includes …

This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral …. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our … rewards does not balance the loss from foregone current benefits. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find …

A structural retirement model estimated with data from the Health and Retirement Study is used to simulate the effects … of policies firms might adopt to improve employment conditions for older workers and thereby encourage delayed retirement …, while reducing full time work and full retirement, resulting in only a small net increase in full-time equivalent employment …

. CPS and Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data indicate a corresponding difference of 3 percentage points between 1998 and … 2004. Simulations with a structural retirement model suggest changes in Social Security rules between 1992 and 2004 … men ages 65 to 67. These rule changes encourage deferring retirement from long term jobs, returning to full time work …

model of retirement and wealth. The model is then used to simulate the effects of abolishing the remainder of the Social … Security earnings test, between age 62 and the full retirement age. Estimates are based on data for married men from the first … six waves of the Health and Retirement Study. From age 62 through the full retirement age, the earnings test reduces the …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and pension plan type obtained from documents produced by their employers, called Summary … of retirement and saving behavior should allow for imperfect knowledge by decision makers. …