The Office of Retirement and Disability Policy at the Social Security Administration created the Retirement Research Consortium in 1998 to encourage research on topics related to Social Security and the well-being of older Americans, and to foster communication between the academic and policy...

Data suggest the distribution of wealth among households in the United States and the United Kingdom has become more equal over the last century - though the pattern may have reversed recently. This paper shows that a model in which all households save for life-cycle reasons and some for...

This paper studies the long-run implications for national wealth accumulation of potential changes in the U.S. social security system or in the size of the U.S. national debt. Privatization of a portion of the existing (unfunded) U.S. social security system would, if the national debt were held...