This paper is based on a structural model of retirement and saving, estimated with data for a sample of married men in … the Health and Retirement Study. It explains the relation of specific features of Social Security - the benefit amount …, the early entitlement age, the normal retirement age, earnings test parameters, and the delayed retirement credit - to the …

We analyze the forces that can generate retirement in different versions of standard life cycle models of labor supply …. While nonconvexities in production can generate retirement, we show that the size of nonconvexities needed increases sharply … models imply a large increase in time devoted to home production at retirement. This is contrary to what is found in the ATUS …

recipients and my Social Security account holders highly value the information therein for retirement planning. Recipients … statistically significant effects on retirement savings, although additional research is required for estimating heterogeneous …

We develop a rich model to study the complex interrelationship between health insurance and retirement decisions. The … model of optimal wealth and retirement decisions, solving the model household-by-household using data from the HRS. We use …

supply, and retirement. Unlike all previous work, our model allows both an endogenous wage process (which is typically … the model and match the life-cycle profiles of wages, hours and retirement from SIPP data. We analyze the impact of health … shocks on retirement, as well as the effect of changes in payroll taxes and increases in the Normal Retirement Age on labor …

by exploiting the fact that DI benefits are payable only until full retirement age (FRA), at which point they are …

The labor supply and benefit claiming incentives provided by the early retirement rules of the Social Security Old Age … benefits program are of growing importance as the Normal Retirement Age (NRA) increases to 67, the labor force participation of … Health and Retirement Survey. We then investigate the importance of the Earnings Test limits for work and claiming behavior …