The AFDC program contains incentives for family dissolution, as well as the usual incentives regarding work effort inherent in transfer programs of its type. The research discussed below attempts to determine the extent of the impact of these incentives. Cross-section analyses of SMSAs in 1960...

If, as is usually assumed, older individuals face a continuous choice of work hours without fixed costs or take account of the actuarial adjustment of Social Security benefits postponed as a result of the earnings test, the earnings limit should not affect their labor supply before age...

Partial retirement is a quantitatively important retirement state that shows significant structural differences from behavioral functions of either full retirement or full-time work. Alternative models of the choice of retirement state are estimated on a sample of white married males from the...