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Insulation of Pensions from Political Risk

Diamond, Peter A. - 2006

There are many sources of political risk to public provision of pensions. This paper analyzes legislation to alter the …

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Social Security Investment in Equities I : Linear Case

Diamond, Peter A. - 2008

Social Security trust fund portfolio diversification to include some equities reduces the equity premium by raising the safe real interest rate. This requires changes in taxes. Under the hypothesis of constant marginal returns to risky investments, trust fund diversification lowers the price of...

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Social Security and Democracy

Mulligan, Casey B.; Gil, Ricard; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2021

Many political economic theories use and emphasize the process of voting in their explanation of the growth of Social Security, government spending, and other public policies. But is there an empirical connection between democracy and Social Security program size or design? Using some new...

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Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits

Coile, Courtney; Diamond, Peter A.; Gruber, Jonathan; … - 2021

This paper focuses on Social Security benefit claiming behavior, a take-up decision that has been ignored in the previous literature. Using financial calculations and simulations based on an expected utility maximization model, we show that delaying benefit claim for a period of time after...

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Administrative Costs and Equilibrium Charges with Individual Accounts

Diamond, Peter A. - 2022

There are many individual account proposals. For government-organized accounts, the government arranges for both record-keeping and investment management. For privately-organized accounts, individuals directly select private firms to do these tasks. The government spreads the costs of...

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Social Security in Theory and Practice (I) : Facts and Political Theories

Mulligan, Casey B.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2021

savings plan …

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Gerontocracy, Retirement, and Social Security

Mulligan, Casey B.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2021

that the forced savings programs intended to reform' the social security system may increase the amount of …

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An Assessment of the Proposals of the President'S Commission to Strengthen Social Security

Diamond, Peter A.; Orszag, Peter R. - 2021

The President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security proposed three reform plans. Two, analyzed here, restore actuarial balance in the absence of individual accounts. One achieves this balance solely through benefit reductions. The other uses new dedicated revenue to cover one-third of the...

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Privatization of Social Security : Lessons from Chile

Diamond, Peter A. - 2021

In Chile, all covered workers must place 10% of monthly earnings in a savings account with a highly regulated … year (for 1991) which is 2.94% of average taxable earnings. This is close to 30% of the 10% mandatory savings rate. The … pensions in the U.S. However, it compares unfavorably with administrative costs in well-run unified government managed systems …

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Social Security and Retirement in the U.S

Diamond, Peter A.; Gruber, Jonathan - 2021

The largest entitlement program in the United States today is the Social Security program (SS). We provide an overview of the interaction between the SS system and retirement behavior. We begin by documenting historical trends in labor force participation and program receipt, and contemporaneous...

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