Reconsidering the Social Security Notch and retirement: Wealth and incentive effects

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2015
Volume: 132
Issue: C
Pages: 65-68

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

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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.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:132:y:2015:i:c:p:65-68
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-26