Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth …

marginal returns to work near retirement, as measured by the increase in benefits associated with an additional year of … marginal returns on Social Security taxes paid near retirement are generally low. The paper also tests the effects on marginal …

Study of Income Dynamics, we follow a cohort of white married males through their sixties to estimate a model of retirement … behavior. Using several definitions of retirement suggested in the literature, the results suggest that the two key policy … influence on retirement decisions. For example, our results suggest that a decrease in the implicit tax rate on earnings from …

We consider the retirement behavior of civilian employees of the United States government. Unlike previous studies … the financial aspects of individual retirement decisions with a reasonable degree of precision. A large fraction of civil … the expected wait until the pension commences affect the timing of retirement from the Federal service. (2) The rate of …

This study examines empirically whether social security influences the retirement decisions of individuals. The …'s income and substitution effects are included in a model for examining retirement decisions. This model is based on the model … from the Social Security Administration and are particularly well suited for this study. Retirement models are estimated …

This study examines the impact of social security on the retirement of married men aged 60-70 years. The empirical … retiring) denoted SSW. This variable measures social security's effect on retirement. The estimated effects are significant and … considerable. When SSW in-creases from $35,000 to $55,000 the probability of retirement rises by .15 for 62-64 year olds relative …

statistics analysis. Section 3 evaluates the effects on the equilibrium retirement age, section 4 modifies the benefits formula … to depend on retirement age and section 5 examines the wealth-income ratio effect. Section 6 introduces the …

Study of Income Dynamics, we follow a cohort of white married males through their sixties to estimate a model of retirement … behavior. Using several definitions of retirement suggested in the literature, the results suggest that the two key policy … influence on retirement decisions. For example, our results suggest that a decrease in the implicit tax rate on earnings from …