TY - RPRT T1 - Social Security and Retirement Y1 - 2000 A1 - Courtney Coile A1 - Gruber, Jonathan KW - Retirement Planning and Satisfaction KW - Social Security AB - A critical question for Social Security policy is how program incentives affect retirement behavior. We use the wealth of new data available through the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the impact of Social Security incentives on male retirement. We implement forward-looking models of retirement whereby individuals consider not just the incentives to work in the next year but in all future years as well. We find that such forward looking incentive measures for Social Security are significant determinants of retirement decisions. Our findings suggest that Social Security policies which increase the incentives to work at older ages can significantly reduce the exit rate of older workers from the labor force. JF - NBER Working Paper PB - National Bureau of Economic Research CY - Cambridge U4 - Retirement/Social Security ER -