goods, showing how resources are shared between husbands and wives, and how this allocation is affected by retirement and … (taking sharing of goods into account), and that these shares are little affected by retirement, but increase dramatically …

This paper examines how the retirement strategies of older (age 50 or older) Americans have changed over the period of … 2006-2010. The data used for this study come from the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study (HRS), sponsored … retire at the traditional U.S. ages of retirement (62 and 65) and beyond. Then it examines how this expected retirement age …

We show how the age profile of earnings, retirement rules and retirement behavior are tightly linked through the … paper theoretically rationalizes the links between retirement rules and the wage structures over the life cycle and uses … data on European countries to show how social security taxes, the age profile of earnings, and retirement behavior are …

) retirement plans since the 1980s has contributed to the substantial rise in labor force participation of older Americans. We … develop a life cycle model of retirement that captures important aspects of private (DB and DC) and public (Social Security … complex interrelations of labor supply decisions, retirement behavior, and wealth accumulation. We begin by illustrating …

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When Social Security's Full Retirement Age (FRA) increased to age 66 for recent retirees, the peak retirement age … points more likely to retire soon after their 65th birthdays and are 5.8 percentage points less likely to delay retirement … insurance is an important component of the retirement decision. On the question of whether misinformation about Social Security …

We solve a retirement lifecycle model in which the consumer's age does not move in lockstep with calendar time. Instead … cross-sectional heterogeneity in retirement spending rates at any given chronological age. In sum, we argue that biological …