This article uses Health and Retirement Study data to investigate the effects of Social Security's Windfall Elimination … Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) on Social Security benefits received by households. The provisions reduce … pension and were not subject to Social Security payroll taxes (“noncovered” employment). We find that about 3.5 percent of …

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimate reduced form retirement and wealth equations. The … retirement equation relates the probability of retiring to the quot;premium valuequot;, a forward looking measure of the future … simple models suggest that if the social security early retirement age were to be raised, more people would retire earlier …

state retirement of men. Work incentives associated with pension coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily … retirement model suggest that the long-run effects of changes in pension plans and social security account for about a quarter of …This article estimates the effects of changes in pension plans and social security in the 1970s and 1980s on the steady …

retirement activity at 62. Liquidity constraints from inability to borrow on Social Security and pension benefits add to this …This paper specifies and estimates a structural life cycle model of retirement and wealth that explains the peaks in … retirement both at ages 62 and at 65. Our estimates suggest that leisure and time preference are widely distributed among the …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth … 51 to 61 in 1992, and obtains pension plan descriptions from respondents' employers. Pension accrual profiles, income and … wealth distributions by type, wealth-income ratios and accrued wealth by pension status are also explored …

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 …

A structural life cycle model of retirement and wealth attributes retirement peaks at both ages 62 and 65 to Social … Security early entitlement age to 64 induces 5 percent of the population to delay retiring, shifting the retirement spike from …

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to examine the effects of the Great Recession on the wealth … held by the near retirement age population from 2006 to 2012. For the Early Boomer cohort (ages 51 to 56 in 2004), real … part of the story. The assets held by members of the cohort nearing retirement at the onset of the recession would normally …

This paper uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the effects of Social Security's Windfall … Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) provision on Social Security benefits received by individuals and … jobs where a pension was earned. WEP also reduces spouse benefits. GPO reduces spouse and survivor benefits for persons who …

pension benefits and DC balances for those approaching retirement, pensions account for more support in retirement than is …. Estimates from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) for respondents in their early fifties suggest that pension wealth is about … wealth "disappears" at retirement because respondents change their pension into other forms that are not counted as pension …