Many Americans claim Social Security benefits early, though this leaves them with lower benefits throughout retirement … strategic survey about the lump sum. In other words, such a reform could provide an avenue for encouraging delayed retirement …

Many nations incentivize retirement saving by letting workers defer taxes on pension contributions, imposing them when … taxing pension contributions instead of withdrawals leads to delayed retirement, somewhat lower lifetime tax payments, and …

We examine respondents in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to observe how their financial situations unfolded as … retirement, and progress through their retirement years, and (b) labor force participation declined and thus earnings became less … important with age, while Social Security and retirement savings rose as a proportion of annual income …

The Office of Retirement and Disability Policy at the Social Security Administration created the Retirement Research … foster communication between the academic and policy communities. The Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) has …

In 1998, the Social Security Administration established the Retirement Research Consortium to encourage research on … policy communities. The Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) participated in the Consortium from its inception until … 2019, when the MRRC expanded and became the Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center. This article surveys a …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth …