Duggan, James E.; Gillingham, Robert; Greenlees, John S. - In: Public Finance Review 24 (1996) 3, pp. 349-370
This article provides the first empirical estimates of the effects of the Social Security Abstract benefit notch on lifetime benefits based on actual Social Security records, the 1988 Continuous Work History Sample. The authors'results show that the notch occurred in the context of a maturing...