This paper examines retirement and related behavioral responses to policies that on average are actuarially neutral …. Many conventional models predict that actuarially neutral policies will not affect retirement behavior. In contrast, our … rewards does not balance the loss from foregone current benefits. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we find …

. CPS and Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data indicate a corresponding difference of 3 percentage points between 1998 and … 2004. Simulations with a structural retirement model suggest changes in Social Security rules between 1992 and 2004 … men ages 65 to 67. These rule changes encourage deferring retirement from long term jobs, returning to full time work …

This paper uses the receipt of an inheritance to measure the effect of wealth shocks on retirement. Using the Health … and Retirement Study (HRS), we first document that inheritance receipt is common among older workers %u2013 one in five … receipt is associated with a significant increase in the probability of retirement. In particular, we find that receiving an …

This paper specifies and estimates a structural dynamic stochastic model of the way individuals make retirement and … saving choices in an uncertain world, and applies that model to analyze the effects of the stock market bubble on retirement … behavior. The model includes individual variation both in retirement preferences and in time preferences. Estimates are based …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth …

A structural retirement model estimated with data from the Health and Retirement Study is used to simulate the effects … of policies firms might adopt to improve employment conditions for older workers and thereby encourage delayed retirement …, while reducing full time work and full retirement, resulting in only a small net increase in full-time equivalent employment …

the alpha release of the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the extent to which variation in health and job …

factors which might influence labor force participation decisions and the effects such decisions will have on retirement … income and its adequacy for a growing elderly population. While models of retirement behavior are becoming increasingly … affecting the labor supply decision, their interactions with and implications for subsequent retirement income, and identifies …