The present paper reviews key issues in pension design and pension reform encountered all across the world. The paper …

considerable policy interest. We examine the 'intent to treat effect' of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme on prime … that having a pension-eligible individual in the household increases the probability of working by 3.2 percentage points … for women aged 20-50, with the effect stronger for urban women. The effect is particularly strong if the pension …

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 …

We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth … quantile regression-discontinuity design to address the endogeneity of partial compliance of the pension scheme and the … observed individual heterogeneity. Overall, we find that the pension scheme smooths wealth dependence between generations in …

This paper quantifies the effect of Poland's 1999 pension reform on the inequality of future pension benefits. The … Household Budget Survey, show that the Gini coefficient reaches 0.27 once the full effect of the reform has materialized. Had … the pre-reform system continued unchanged, the Gini coefficient would not be >0.19. The increased inequality of pension …