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Older Women's Labor Market Attachment, Retirement Planning, and Household Debt

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2016

The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns have changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work lives and plans to continue work at older ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement...

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Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in the United States

Lusardi, Annamaria - 2011

We examine financial literacy in the United States using the new National Financial Capability Study, wherein we demonstrate that financial literacy is particularly low among the young, women, and the less-educated. Moreover, Hispanics and African-Americans score the least well on financial...

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Why is Growth Better in the United States than in Other Industrial Countries

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2017

Although the official statistics imply that the rate of growth of real GDP in the United States has declined in recent years, it has still been substantially higher than the real growth rates in Europe and the other industrial countries, leading to higher real per capita incomes. This paper...

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Resolving the Global Imbalance : The Dollar and the U.S. Saving Rate

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010

The large trade and current account deficits of the United States cannot continue indefinitely because doing so would constitute a permanent gift to the U.S. economy. The process that will cause this gift to shrink and that will eventually cause it to reverse is a fall in the dollar. The dollar...

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Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010

The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia requires reforming the institutions for domestic counterterrorism (CT) and new international relations among individual national CT organizations. This paper discusses the...

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Pensions and the U.S. Labor Market

Gustman, Alan L.; Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2021

market. Available evidence indicates that pensions must be viewed as part of a long-term employment relation. For this reason … and employment Combining information on employee characteristics, turnover and retirement patterns, company inputs and …-side information with employment and wage histories of employees …

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The Distribution of the U.S. Capital Stock between Residential and Industrial Uses

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2021

The purpose of the present study is to measure the extent to which an increase in the total capital stock induces an increase in the stock of residential capital, i.e., to measure the marginal propensity of additional capital to be absorbed in residential capital. A knowledge of this propensity...

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The Recent Failure of U.S. Monetary Policy

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2021

Since the spring of 1990, the rates of growth of real income, of nominal income, and of the broad monetary aggregate (M2) have been substantially less than the Federal Reserve had set as targets and than most observers regarded as appropriate. The breakdown of the traditional economic relations...

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U.S. Growth in the Decade Ahead

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010

This paper examines the likely growth of U.S. GDP in the decade beginning in 2010. I analyze the two components of the rise in GDP over this ten year period: (1) the recovery from the substantially depressed level of economic activity at the start of the decade; and (2) the rise in potential GDP that...

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U.S. Budget Deficits and the European Economies : Resolving the Political Economy Puzzle

Feldstein, Martin S. - 2021

This paper, prepared for the annual meetings of the American Economic Association, discusses how the increases in the U.S. budget deficits since 1980 have affected the economies of Western Europe. The analysis emphasizes that U.S. deficits have not only affected these economies directly but have...

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