A critical question for Social Security policy is how program incentives affect retirement behavior. We use the wealth … of new data available through the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the impact of Social Security incentives … on male retirement. We implement forward-looking models of retirement whereby individuals consider not just the …

Like most other developed nations, Canada has a large income security system for retirement that provides significant … of appropriate data. We provide an empirical analysis of the retirement incentives of the Canadian Income Security (IS … IS system have large and statistically significant impacts on retirement. This suggests that program reform can play some …

retirement decisions. Second, there is fairly clear evidence that health insurance is not a major determinant of the labor supply …

improvements in wellbeing arising from the provision of public pensions. To the extent households adjust their savings and … employment behavior to account for enhanced retirement benefits, the positive impact of the benefits may be crowded out. We …, poverty, and happiness. For income, we find large increases in income corresponding to retirement benefit increases …

, perhaps due to increased early retirement, but that it is significantly protecting them against poverty. We then ask what the …

A critical question for Social Security policy is how program incentives affect retirement behavior. We use the wealth … of new data available through the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the impact of Social Security incentives … on male retirement. We implement forward-looking models of retirement whereby individuals consider not just the …

of the interaction between the SS system and retirement behavior. We begin by documenting historical trends in labor … the relationship between SS and retirement. Finally, we present results of a simulation model which measures the implicit …