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"Double Dipping": The Combined Effects of Social Security and Civil Service Pensions on Employee Retirement 0 0 0 190 3 10 11 4,161
American Inequality and Its Consequences 0 0 0 53 0 2 6 180
Can Educational Attainment Explain the Rise in Labor Force Participation at Older Ages? 0 0 0 58 1 3 3 89
Can Supply-Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 1 1 419 7 21 29 3,486
Capital Income Flows and the Relative Well-Being of America's Aged Population 0 0 0 26 0 8 11 148
Changing Mortality Rates and Income Inequality among the U.S. Elderly 0 0 0 34 0 3 4 33
Cross-National Evidence on the Burden of Age-Related Public Transfers and Health Benefits 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 23
Do Retired Americans Annuitize Too Little? Trends in the Share of Annuitized Income 0 0 0 13 0 2 3 35
Effects of Employer Health Costs on the Trend and Distribution of Social Security-Taxable Wages 0 0 0 6 0 1 1 26
Evaluating Fundamental Pension Reform in Japan and the United States 0 0 0 8 0 1 1 65
Failure to Launch: Cross-National Trends in the Transition to Economic Independence 0 0 0 7 2 7 11 60
Growth in Health Consumption and Its Implications for Financing OASDI: An International Perspective 0 0 0 14 0 4 5 46
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Relative Income of the Elderly and Nonelderly 0 0 0 21 3 6 6 112
How Would Financial Risk Affect Retirement Income Under Individual Accounts? 0 0 1 117 0 4 6 441
How Would Investing in Equities Have Affected the Social Security Trust Fund? 0 0 1 15 1 2 4 42
Impact of Immigration on the Distribution of American Well-Being 0 0 0 45 0 0 1 115
Impact of the Great Recession on Retirement Trends in Industrialized Countries 0 0 0 40 0 3 4 72
Income Distribution, Weekly Hours of Work, and Time for Child Rearing: The U.S. Experience in a Cross-National Context 0 0 0 4 1 1 6 21
International Investment for Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence on Risk and Returns 0 0 0 98 1 5 8 306
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 0 0 443 2 6 10 1,670
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce? 0 0 0 27 1 4 9 136
Labor Force Dynamics in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: Implications for Older Workers 0 0 0 42 1 6 8 42
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems 0 0 0 200 1 6 9 426
Post-War Trends in Labor Income in the Social Security Earnings Records 0 0 0 21 1 4 4 23
Recessions, Wealth Destruction, and the Timing of Retirement 0 0 0 48 0 2 6 118
Retirement Trends and Policies to Encourage Work Among Older Americans 0 0 0 687 0 3 5 3,050
Risk and Reward of International Investing for U.S. Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence 0 0 0 22 1 4 4 156
Social Security Privatization and Financial Market Risk: Lessons from U.S. Financial History 0 0 1 301 2 4 8 956
Sources of Increasing Differential Mortality Among the Aged by Socioeconomic Status 0 0 0 18 2 5 9 38
Supply-Side Consequences of Social Security Reform: Impacts on Saving and Employment 0 0 0 7 0 4 6 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 0 3 6 20
The Age Profile of Income and the Burden of Unfunded Transfers in Four Countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study 0 0 0 3 1 5 7 33
The Earnings and Social Security Contributions of Documented and Undocumented Mexican Immigrants 1 1 1 20 1 16 19 84
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiment 0 0 0 0 0 5 11 524
The Impact of Aging on Financial Markets and the Economy: A Survey 0 1 4 632 2 12 23 1,545
The Impact of Later Retirement on Government Budgets 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 51
The Impact of Population Aging and Delayed Retirement on Workforce Productivity 2 2 3 101 5 8 12 285
The Job Prospects of U.S. Welfare Recipients: Lousier Pay but Bigger Earnings Supplements 0 0 0 61 1 4 6 600
The Rationale for Fundamental Pension Reform in Germany and the United States: An Assessment 0 0 0 73 0 4 5 401
The Rising Age at Retirement in Industrial Countries 0 0 0 65 0 1 1 106
The Shrinking Tax Preference for Pension Savings: An Analysis of Income Tax Changes, 1985-2007 0 0 0 19 0 3 4 75
United States Poverty in a Cross-National Context 0 0 1 6 0 5 9 50
What are the Costs and Benefits of Social Security Investing in Equities? 0 0 1 25 4 18 21 71
Total Working Papers 3 5 14 3,994 44 217 325 19,959


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Are Classical Experiments Needed for Manpower Policy 0 0 0 17 0 3 6 83
Are Targeted Wage Subsidies Harmful? Evidence from a Wage Voucher Experiment 0 0 0 38 1 3 4 430
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 1 2 3 7
Can Improved Options for Private Saving Offer a Plausible Substitute for Public Pensions?* 0 1 2 5 1 5 7 13
Can Supply-Side policies Reduce unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 0 0 3 11 18 330
Can Supply‐Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America 0 0 0 37 0 2 3 179
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 0 3 3 31
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 0 4 8 45
Demographic change, rising earnings inequality, and the distribution of personal well-being, 1959–1989 0 0 0 48 0 2 4 122
Demographic shocks and global factor flows: discussion 0 1 1 10 0 3 3 103
Does a trend toward early retirement create problems for the economy? 0 0 0 16 0 4 6 465
Effects of Tax Reform on Labor Supply, Investment, and Saving 0 0 1 299 1 6 10 690
Effects of growing wage disparities and changing family composition on the U.S. income distribution 0 0 0 217 3 6 10 625
First Discussant Comment on “Potential Effects of the Great Recession on the U.S. Labor Market” 0 0 0 1 1 5 5 6
Fiscal Policy and the Dynamic Inconsistency of Social Security Forecasts 0 0 0 32 0 2 4 175
Fixing Social Security: Major Reform or Minor Repairs? 0 0 0 7 1 5 6 20
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 1 1 8 0 4 4 23
Has Widening Inequality Promoted or Retarded US Growth? 0 0 0 38 0 6 10 206
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 0 61 0 2 4 181
Improving the Fortunes of America’s Working Class 0 0 0 4 2 7 8 17
Inappropriate Comparisons as a Basis for Policy: Two Recent Examples from the Social Experiments* 0 0 0 2 1 2 2 21
Inferences Concerning Labor Supply Behavior Based on Limited-Duration Experiments 0 0 1 16 1 3 5 89
Innovations in Labour Market Policies: The Australian Way Comments on an OECD Report 0 0 0 7 1 4 5 41
International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality 0 0 0 635 0 5 9 1,694
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 0 2 3 95
Lessons of the Financial Crisis for the Design of National Pension Systems 0 0 0 27 0 2 4 114
Measuring the Impact of Nit Experiments on Work Effort 0 0 0 24 0 3 6 178
Minimum wages in the US Popular with the public and there's no evidence they cost jobs 0 0 0 1 1 4 4 22
North-South Trade: Employment and Inequality by Adrian Wood 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 7
Pension Reform and Saving 0 1 2 17 0 4 11 68
Public Pension Reform in the U.S. Presidential Campaign 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 16
Relative Unemployment in Canada and the United States: An Assessment 0 0 0 46 0 4 10 256
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 0 0 0 42
Social Security reform in a global context 0 0 1 78 1 3 6 309
Social Security's Long-Term Budget Outlook 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 5
Social Security, Earnings Tests, and Age at Retirement 0 0 0 21 0 3 5 60
Social Security, Unanticipated Benefit Increases, and the Timing of Retirement 0 0 1 205 0 2 7 527
Taxes and Transfers: How Much Economic Loss? 0 0 0 0 1 5 6 13
The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research 0 1 1 893 0 4 8 1,905
The Contribution of Employment and Hours Changes to Family Income Inequality 0 0 0 32 0 2 4 164
The Decline in Saving: Evidence from Household Surveys 0 0 0 136 2 5 9 423
The Economist's Lament: Public Assistance in America 0 1 1 101 2 5 6 372
The Effect of Taxation on Labor Supply: Evaluating the Gary Negative Income Tax Experiments 0 3 17 630 0 7 29 1,254
The Joint Choice of Retirement Age and Postretirement Hours of Work 0 0 0 204 0 4 8 565
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 0 2 2 23
The progress and distribution of U.S. living standards, 1959-1995 0 0 0 20 1 3 6 122
The work response to a guaranteed income: a survey of experimental evidence 1 3 16 753 3 10 53 2,336
Trends in the Level and Distribution of U.S. Living Standards: 1973-1993 0 0 0 38 1 6 6 173
Trends in the Well-Being of the Aged and Their Prospects through 2030 0 0 1 6 0 5 8 45
Welfare reform and New York City's low-income population - commentary 0 0 0 41 0 2 4 375
What Do We Know About the Risk of Individual Account Pensions? Evidence from Industrial Countries 0 0 0 64 0 5 6 219
Why Is Insured Unemployment So Low? 0 0 0 18 1 5 6 128
Why Wages Aren’t Growing 0 0 0 3 1 2 4 11
`Double dipping': the combined effects of social security and civil service pensions on employee retirement 0 0 0 44 1 2 5 731
Total Journal Articles 1 12 46 4,954 33 206 379 16,154


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Asset accumulation and retirement income under individual retirement accounts: evidence from five countries 0 0 0 6 1 5 6 30
Comment on "The Effect of Population Aging on the Aggregate Labor Market" 0 0 0 7 0 5 7 46
Distributional impact of social security reform 0 0 0 8 2 3 6 29
Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 83
Wrap-up Discussion 0 0 0 16 0 1 3 237
Total Chapters 0 0 0 37 4 17 28 425


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