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Social security is NOT a substitute for annuity markets

Caliendo, Frank; Guo, Nick L.; Hosseini, Roozbeh - In: Review of economic dynamics 17 (2014) 4, pp. 739-755

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Social Security Reform Opinions : A Response to Risky Markets

Maestas, Cherie D - 2010

that risk-averse individuals discount positive economic expectations when forming their opinion regarding privatization …, and that risk acceptant individuals weigh positive expectations more heavily. Thus, the endearing effect of economic … confidence on privatization is greater as risk tolerance increases. We use national survey data from the 2008 Cooperative …

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Welfare implications of uncertain social security reform

Nelson, Jaeger - In: Public finance review : PFR 48 (2020) 4, pp. 425-466

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Sustainable social security : four options

Kitao, Sagiri - 2011

This paper presents four policy options to make Social Security sustainable under the coming demographic shift: 1) increase payroll taxes by 6 percentage points, 2) reduce the replacement rates of the benefit formula by one-third, 3) raise the normal retirement age from sixty-six to...

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Means testing and Social Security in the United States

Bagchi, Shantanu - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 68-91

This paper uses a heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model to examine the fiscal and distributional consequences of introducing a means test in US Social Security. I find that a means test, that is, conditioning benefit payments on a household's earnings or assets, leads to a higher...

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