contributions boosted in many nations. Yet our research on old-age system reforms does not require raising mandatory retirement ages … or contributions. Instead, we offer ways to enhance incentives for people to work longer and delay retirement. There are … good reasons to incentivize older people to work longer and delay retirement. These include rising longevity, the shrinking …

This paper investigates the relationship between local crime rates and the retirement decisions of older Americans. We … do so by linking data from the Health and Retirement Study with measures of local crime patterns taken from the Federal … associated with early retirement may be correlated with residence in higher-crime rate cities, so next we condition on both the …

Cross-national comparisons of data from developed countries offer useful insights into the retirement process and … Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) project, and we compare these with results in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We … examine the relative importance of health, wealth, family, and other factors in work and retirement at older ages cross …

This paper investigates whether exchanging the Social Security delayed retirement credit, currently paid as an increase … voluntarily claim about half a year later if the lump sum were paid for claiming any time after the Early Retirement Age, and … about two-thirds of a year later if the lump sum were paid only for those claiming after their Full Retirement Age. Overall …