highest marginal tax rates in the economy. Previous research dismissed the importance of the earnings test but failed to take …

human capital towards the end of the life cycle which responds to changes in the rules. Retirement arises endogenously as … (which is typically assumed exogenous in the retirement literature), an endogenous retirement decision (which is typically …

The paper is an empirical cross-section study of the retirement decisions of American white men between the ages of 58 …). The model is reasonably successful in predicting retirement decisions, and casts serious doubt on previous claims that the … retirement …

Media reports predicted that the stock market decline in October 2008 would cause changes in retirement intentions, due … to declines in retirement assets. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the relationship … between stock market performance and retirement intentions during 1998-2008, a period that includes the recent crisis. While …

example, we find that any effort to promote opportunities for partial retirement as a means to increase overall work is likely …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 …

Retirement Around the World. The first phase described the retirement incentives inherent in plan provisions and documented the …

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 …

-side explanation for the frequently observed discrete drop from full-time work to complete retirement …

) prior to becoming eligible. Our past research relying on cross-state variation in SSI benefits found evidence consistent …