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

TitleReconsidering the social security notch and retirement: Wealth and incentive effects
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsMoulton, JG, Stevens, AH
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume132
Pagination65-68
KeywordsRetirement Planning and Satisfaction, Social Security
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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Export Date: 29 May 2015
URLhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84928951822andpartnerID=40andmd5=1eeb34855b4e851f9fe1d8f8d1571926
DOI10.1016/j.econlet.2015.04.016
Endnote Keywords

Notch/Retirement/Social security
Endnote ID

999999
Citation Key8196