Reconsidering the social security notch and retirement: Wealth and incentive effects

Year of Publication
2015
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Journal
Economics Letters
Volume
132
Number of Pages
65-68
Abstract

Using the Health and Retirement Study, we show that studies using the Social Security Notch cannot separately identify the effects of retirement wealth and forward-looking incentives on retirement because the Notch natural experiment changed both factors in offsetting ways. 2015 Elsevier B.V.

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DOI
10.1016/j.econlet.2015.04.016
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