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Old‐Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 and Above Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico

by Amuedo‐Dorantes, Catalina Juarez, Laura Published in Southern economic journal (01.01.2015)

“...We estimate the crowding out of private transfers caused by 70 y Más –a public assistance program for the rural elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an...”

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Could Social Security Go Broke?

by Bergmann, Barbara R Published in The Economists' voice (2005)

“...The public is anxious because it has often been told that Social Security will â€œrun out of money around 2042", that it â€œwonâ€™t be there for our young...”

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Optimal Financial Knowledge and Wealth Inequality

by Lusardi, Annamaria Michaud, Pierre-Carl Mitchell, Olivia S Published in The Journal of political economy (01.04.2017)

“...We show that financial knowledge is a key determinant of wealth inequality in a stochastic life cycle model with endogenous financial knowledge accumulation,...”

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Grundrente – ungelöste normative Widersprüche

by Pimpertz, Jochen Stockhausen, Maximilian Published in Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik (01.12.2019)

“...The proposed basic pension in the German statutory pension scheme would misdirect aid in four out of five cases to those not in need if a means test is waived...”

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Disentangling retirement and savings responses

by Lindeboom, Maarten Montizaan, Raymond Published in Journal of public economics (01.12.2020)

“...•We use a reform that implied a substantive drop in public pension wealth.•At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings program was introduced.•The treated...”

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Targeting of social transfers: Are India’s poor older people left behind?

by Asri, Viola Published in World development (01.03.2019)

“...•I examine the targeting performance of and access to social pensions in India.•Exclusion of poor older people continues to be a widespread problem.•The...”

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Social protection response to the COVID-19 crisis: options for developing countries

by Gerard, François Imbert, Clément Orkin, Kate Published in Oxford review of economic policy (2020)

“...Abstract The public health response to COVID-19 in many countries has involved strict restrictions on movement and economic activity which threaten the...”

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Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt

by Nicole Maestas Kathleen J. Mullen Alexander Strand Published in The American economic review (01.08.2013)

“...We present the first causal estimates of the effect of Social Security Disability Insurance benefit receipt on labor supply using all program applicants. We...”

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How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work

by Andreas Ravndal Kostøl Magne Mogstad Published in The American economic review (01.02.2014)

“...Using a local randomized experiment that arises from a sharp discontinuity in Disability Insurance (DI) policy in Norway, we provide transparent and credible...”

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GOTCHA! Network-Based Fraud Detection for Social Security Fraud

by Van Vlasselaer, Veronique Eliassi-Rad, Tina Akoglu, Leman Snoeck, Monique Baesens, Bart Published in Management science (01.09.2017)

“...We study the impact of network information for social security fraud detection. In a social security system, companies have to pay taxes to the government...”

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The employment effects of terminating disability benefits

by Moore, Timothy J Published in Journal of public economics (01.04.2015)

“...Few social security disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries return to the labor force, making it hard to assess their likely employment in the absence of...”

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The Effects of Differential Income Replacement and Mortality on U.S. Social Security Redistribution

by Tan, Li Koedel, Cory Published in Southern economic journal (01.10.2019)

“...We study redistribution via the U.S. Social Security retirement system for cohorts of men born during the second half of the 20th century. Our focus is on...”

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Retirement expectations and satisfaction with retirement provisions

by de Bresser, Jochem van Soest, Arthur Published in The Review of income and wealth (01.03.2015)

“...This paper investigates the relationship between subjective expectations regarding the replacement rate of income at retirement and several measures of pension...”

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Building State Capacity: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India

by Karthik Muralidharan Paul Niehaus Sandip Sukhtankar Published in The American economic review (01.10.2016)

“...Antipoverty programs in developing countries are often difficult to implement; in particular, many governments lack the capacity to deliver payments securely...”

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Public Pension Promises: How Big Are They and What Are They Worth?

by ROBERT NOVY-MARX JOSHUA RAUH Published in The Journal of finance (New York) (01.08.2011)

“...We calculate the present value of state employee pension liabilities using discount rates that reflect the risk of the payments from a taxpayer perspective. If...”

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Mental Retirement

by Susann Rohwedder Robert J. Willis Published in The Journal of economic perspectives (01.01.2010)

“...Some studies suggest that people can maintain their cognitive abilities through "mental exercise." This has not been unequivocally proven. Retirement is...”

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