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The power of social pensions
Huang, Wei; Zhang, Chuanchuan - 2016
This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county …-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among the age-eligible people, the scheme provision … health (11-14 percent). In addition, among the age-ineligible adults, the pension scheme shifts them from farming to non …
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Bringing "honest capitalʺ to poor borrowers : the passage of the uniform small loan law, 1907-1930
Carruthers, Bruce G.; Guinnane, Timothy; Lee, Yoonseok - 2009
The Uniform Small Loan Law (USLL) was the Russell Sage Foundation’s primary device for fighting what it viewed as the scourge of high-rate lending to poor people in the first half of the twentieth century. The USLL created a new class of lenders who could make small loans at interest rates...
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Affordability of public pension benefit : a historical and empirical analysis of US state and local government pension contributions
Peng, Jun; Wang, Qiushi - In: Journal of pension economics and finance 16 (2017) 1, pp. 21-42
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Pensions, social security, and the privatization of risk
Orenstein, Mitchell A. (contributor) - 2009
Retirements at risk / Alicia H. Munnell -- Expanding participation in America's workplace retirement system / Gary Burtless -- Financial market turbulence and social security reform / Gary Burtless -- The plan to save American workers' retirements / Teresa Ghilarducci -- Learning from...
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Risk sharing across generations without publicly owned equities
Smetters, Kent A. - In: Journal of monetary economics 53 (2006) 7, pp. 1493-1508
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When I'm sixty-four : the plot against pensions and the plan to save them
Ghilarducci, Teresa - 2008
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Risk aspects of investment-based social security reform
Campbell, John Y. (contributor);  … - 2001
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Understanding the economic consequences of shifting trends in population health
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009
The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...
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Improving well-being in the United States
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Lenain, Patrick; Fleche, Sarah - 2014
Life is quite good in the United States compared to other OECD countries, thanks to strong economic growth and technological progress having lifted average income to high levels. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the benefits from growth have not been sufficiently broad based. Self-reported...
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Is This Time Different? : The Safety Net Response to the Pandemic Recession
Hembre, Erik A.; Moffitt, Robert A.; Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The federal government enacted massive spending in the Pandemic Recession. But was this spending scaled to the magnitude of the economic downturn? We examine the responsiveness of the safety net to the Pandemic Recession and compare it to that in the Great Recession. Using monthly state-level...
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