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 …

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 …

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 …

college completion. Using an option value model that accounts for different pathways to retirement, applied to a period … spanning a major pension reform, we find that pension program incentives in general are important determinants of retirement …