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"Double Dipping": The Combined Effects of Social Security and Civil Service Pensions on Employee Retirement 0 0 0 190 3 4 16 4,167
American Inequality and Its Consequences 0 0 0 53 2 3 9 186
Can Educational Attainment Explain the Rise in Labor Force Participation at Older Ages? 0 0 0 58 4 4 9 95
Can Supply-Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 1 419 0 3 43 3,508
Capital Income Flows and the Relative Well-Being of America's Aged Population 0 0 0 26 2 2 12 151
Changing Mortality Rates and Income Inequality among the U.S. Elderly 0 0 0 34 1 6 11 41
Cross-National Evidence on the Burden of Age-Related Public Transfers and Health Benefits 0 0 1 2 2 2 7 29
Do Retired Americans Annuitize Too Little? Trends in the Share of Annuitized Income 0 0 0 13 0 0 7 39
Effects of Employer Health Costs on the Trend and Distribution of Social Security-Taxable Wages 0 0 0 6 2 3 6 31
Evaluating Fundamental Pension Reform in Japan and the United States 0 0 0 8 2 2 5 69
Failure to Launch: Cross-National Trends in the Transition to Economic Independence 0 0 1 8 38 40 55 107
Growth in Health Consumption and Its Implications for Financing OASDI: An International Perspective 0 0 0 14 0 0 8 49
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Relative Income of the Elderly and Nonelderly 0 0 0 21 1 2 9 115
How Would Financial Risk Affect Retirement Income Under Individual Accounts? 0 0 0 117 4 4 12 449
How Would Investing in Equities Have Affected the Social Security Trust Fund? 0 0 0 15 7 8 15 55
Impact of Immigration on the Distribution of American Well-Being 0 0 0 45 2 2 8 123
Impact of the Great Recession on Retirement Trends in Industrialized Countries 0 0 0 40 2 2 7 76
Income Distribution, Weekly Hours of Work, and Time for Child Rearing: The U.S. Experience in a Cross-National Context 0 0 1 5 2 2 8 28
International Investment for Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence on Risk and Returns 1 1 1 99 4 5 14 313
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 0 1 444 2 2 15 1,677
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 1 1 28 1 4 14 145
Labor Force Dynamics in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: Implications for Older Workers 0 0 0 42 4 4 12 48
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems 0 1 1 201 2 5 14 434
Post-War Trends in Labor Income in the Social Security Earnings Records 0 0 0 21 13 14 22 41
Recessions, Wealth Destruction, and the Timing of Retirement 0 0 0 48 2 4 10 124
Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work Among Older Americans 0 0 0 687 0 3 13 3,059
Risk and Reward of International Investing for U.S. Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence 0 0 0 22 0 0 8 160
Social Security Privatization and Financial Market Risk: Lessons from U.S. Financial History 1 1 2 302 2 3 23 971
Sources of Increasing Differential Mortality Among the Aged by Socioeconomic Status 0 0 0 18 1 2 9 41
Supply-Side Consequences of Social Security Reform: Impacts on Saving and Employment 0 0 0 7 1 1 8 41
The Age Profile of Income and the Burden of Unfunded Transfers in Four Countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study 0 0 0 3 5 5 11 38
The Age Profile of Income and the Burden of Unfunded Transfers in Four Countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study 0 0 0 0 5 5 17 33
The Earnings and Social Security Contributions of Documented and Undocumented Mexican Immigrants 0 0 1 20 3 3 21 88
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment 0 0 0 0 2 4 16 533
The Impact of Aging on Financial Markets and the Economy: A Survey 0 0 4 634 3 4 30 1,558
The Impact of Later Retirement on Government Budgets 0 0 0 4 3 4 5 55
The Impact of Population Aging and Delayed Retirement on Workforce Productivity 0 0 2 101 3 3 29 305
The Job Prospects of U.S. Welfare Recipients: Lousier Pay but Bigger Earnings Supplements 0 0 0 61 1 2 11 607
The Rationale for Fundamental Pension Reform in Germany and the United States: An Assessment 0 0 1 74 3 4 9 406
The Rising Age at Retirement in Industrial Countries 0 0 0 65 2 4 7 112
The Shrinking Tax Preference for Pension Savings: An Analysis of Income Tax Changes, 1985-2007 0 0 0 19 3 3 7 79
United States Poverty in a Cross-National Context 0 0 0 6 9 10 22 67
What are the Costs and Benefits of Social Security Investing in Equities? 0 0 0 25 6 7 47 100
Total Working Papers 2 4 18 4,005 154 194 641 20,353


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Are Classical Experiments Needed for Manpower Policy 0 0 0 17 2 2 8 88
Are Targeted Wage Subsidies Harmful? Evidence from a Wage Voucher Experiment 0 1 1 39 3 5 14 441
Book Review: Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Can We Afford to Grow Older? A Perspective on the Economics of Aging 0 0 0 1 2 2 5 10
Can Improved Options for Private Saving Offer a Plausible Substitute for Public Pensions?* 0 0 1 5 1 1 6 14
Can Supply-Side policies Reduce unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 0 0 2 3 34 349
Can Supply‐Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 0 37 2 3 5 182
Capital in the Twenty‐First Century, by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2014, 685 pp., $39.95, hardcover 0 0 0 7 2 2 8 36
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010, by Charles Murray, New York: Crown Forum/Random House, 2012, 407 pp., $27.00 hardcover 0 0 0 0 2 2 8 47
Demographic change, rising earnings inequality, and the distribution of personal well-being, 1959–1989 0 0 0 48 1 1 8 128
Demographic shocks and global factor flows: discussion 0 0 1 10 2 2 8 108
Does a trend toward early retirement create problems for the economy? 0 0 0 16 0 0 8 468
Effects of Tax Reform on Labor Supply, Investment, and Saving 0 0 1 300 2 3 17 701
Effects of growing wage disparities and changing family composition on the U.S. income distribution 0 0 0 217 1 2 14 631
First Discussant Comment on “Potential Effects of the Great Recession on the U.S. Labor Market” 0 0 0 1 1 1 6 7
Fiscal Policy and the Dynamic Inconsistency of Social Security Forecasts 0 0 0 32 2 3 9 182
Fixing Social Security: Major Reform or Minor Repairs? 0 0 0 7 1 3 10 25
Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Volumes 1A and 1B By John Piggott and Alan Woodland (eds.), North-Holland, 2016 ISBN 978-0-444-53842-0 (Vol. 1A) and 978-0-444-53840-6 (Vol. 1B), 1146 pages 0 0 1 8 2 2 8 27
Has Widening Inequality Promoted or Retarded US Growth? 0 0 0 38 2 2 13 213
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 0 61 2 3 10 188
Improving the Fortunes of America’s Working Class 0 0 0 4 2 4 15 25
Inappropriate Comparisons as a Basis for Policy: Two Recent Examples from the Social Experiments* 0 0 0 2 2 2 6 25
Inferences Concerning Labor Supply Behavior Based on Limited-Duration Experiments 0 0 1 16 3 5 17 102
Innovations in Labour Market Policies: The Australian Way Comments on an OECD Report 0 0 0 7 0 1 5 42
International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality 0 0 0 635 2 2 13 1,700
Learning More from Social Experiments: Evolving Analytic Approaches, edited by Howard S. Bloom, New York: Russell Sage, 2005, 246 pp., $35 hardcover, $19.95 paperback 0 0 0 31 1 1 4 96
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems 0 0 0 27 3 3 9 121
Measuring the Impact of Nit Experiments on Work Effort 0 0 0 24 4 6 16 189
Minimum wages in the US Popular with the public and there's no evidence they cost jobs 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 26
North-South Trade: Employment and Inequality by Adrian Wood 0 0 0 3 3 3 3 10
Pension Reform and Saving 0 0 1 17 3 5 12 76
Public Pension Reform in the U.S. Presidential Campaign 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 18
Relative Unemployment in Canada and the United States: An Assessment 0 0 0 46 1 1 7 258
Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment. Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey B. Liebman, and David A. Wise, eds. University of Chicago Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-07648-5, 459 pages 0 0 0 9 3 3 4 46
Social Security reform in a global context 0 0 0 78 1 1 6 312
Social Security's Long-Term Budget Outlook 0 0 0 0 3 3 8 10
Social Security, Earnings Tests, and Age at Retirement 0 0 0 21 2 2 7 63
Social Security, Unanticipated Benefit Increases, and the Timing of Retirement 0 0 1 206 1 2 10 534
Taxes and Transfers: How Much Economic Loss? 0 0 0 0 5 5 13 20
The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research 0 0 1 893 0 0 9 1,909
The Contribution of Employment and Hours Changes to Family Income Inequality 0 0 0 32 1 2 11 173
The Decline in Saving: Evidence from Household Surveys 0 1 1 137 2 4 15 432
The Economist's Lament: Public Assistance in America 0 0 1 101 1 1 7 374
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiments 0 2 9 636 3 9 36 1,280
The Joint Choice of Retirement Age and Postretirement Hours of Work 0 0 1 205 2 3 12 571
The economic future of American families: Income and wealth trends, by Frank Levy and Richard C. Michel. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1991, 148 pp. Price: $33.00 cloth, $6.00 paper 0 0 0 2 4 4 8 29
The progress and distribution of U.S. living standards, 1959-1995 0 0 0 20 2 2 11 130
The work response to a guaranteed income: a survey of experimental evidence 1 2 10 756 2 4 37 2,354
Trends in the Level and Distribution of U.S. Living Standards: 1973-1993 0 0 0 38 4 5 13 180
Trends in the Well-Being of the Aged and Their Prospects through 2030 0 0 0 6 2 2 9 49
Welfare reform and New York City's low-income population - commentary 0 0 0 41 3 4 8 381
What Do We Know About the Risk of Individual Account Pensions? Evidence from Industrial Countries 0 0 0 64 0 2 9 223
Why Is Insured Unemployment So Low? 0 0 0 18 1 2 10 133
Why Wages Aren’t Growing 0 0 0 3 2 2 5 14
`Double dipping': the combined effects of social security and civil service pensions on employee retirement 0 0 0 44 3 3 8 737
Total Journal Articles 1 6 31 4,968 104 141 575 16,487


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Asset accumulation and retirement income under individual retirement accounts: evidence from five countries 0 0 0 6 0 1 7 32
Comment on "The Effect of Population Aging on the Aggregate Labor Market" 0 0 0 7 0 0 8 48
Distributional impact of social security reform 0 0 0 8 2 2 12 36
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 84
Wrap-up Discussion 0 0 0 16 1 1 4 239
Total Chapters 0 0 0 37 3 4 37 439


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