L Friedberg - 1998 - nber.org
This paper revisits the evidence on the impact of unilateral divorce laws on divorce rates in
the United States. Most states switched from requiring mutual consent to allowing unilateral
or no-fault divorce between 1970 and 1985, while the national divorce rate more than ...
L Friedberg - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000 - MIT Press
The Social Security earnings test taxes away benefits at a 33%-50% rate once earnings
pass a threshold amount. I investigate the response to three past changes in the earnings
test rules, each applying to some age groups and not others. I find that beneficiaries ...
L Friedberg - 2001 - nber.org
New technologies like computers alter skill requirements. This paper explores two related
effects of computers on older workers, who use computers less. The evolution of computer
use in the Current Population Survey suggests that impending retirement reduces the ...
L Friedberg… - 2003 - nber.org
Defined benefit pension plans have become considerably less common since the early
1980s, while defined contribution plans have spread. Previous research showed that
defined benefit plans, with sharp incentives encouraging retirement after a certain point, ...
L Friedberg… - 2006 - nber.org
A growing literature offers indirect evidence that the distribution of bargaining power within a
household influences decisions made by the household. The indirect evidence links
household outcomes to variables that are assumed to influence the distribution of power ...
L Friedberg… - 2004 - nber.org
Current and expected job tenure have fallen significantly over the last two decades. Over the
same period, traditional defined benefit pensions, designed to reward long tenure, have
become steadily less common. This paper uses a contract-theoretic matching model with ...
L Friedberg… - 2006 - nber.org
Using the widely-cited Lee-Carter mortality model, we quantify aggregate mortality risk as
the risk that the average annuitant lives longer than is predicted by the model, and we
conclude that annuity business exposes insurance companies to substantial mortality risk. ...
L Friedberg - 1998 - nber.org
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The social security earnings test reduces a 65-69-year-old's
benefits at a 33-percent rate and a 62-64 year-old's benefits at a 50-percent rate once
earnings pass a threshold amountamong the highest marginal tax rates in the economy. ...
L Friedberg - 1998 - nber.org
Researchers have devoted considerable attention to analyzing the impact of Social Security
on retirement, with mixed findings. However, Old Age Assistance (OAA), a means-tested
program established at the same time, dwarfed Social Security until the 1950s and ...
L Friedberg… - Unpublished manuscript. Charlottesville, VA: …, 2005 - nber.org
ABSTRACT A growing literature offers evidence that the distribution of bargaining power
within a household influences household spending decisions. We extend this literature by
analyzing time allocated by spouses to leisure and chores. Unlike many other possible ...
L Friedberg - Women, 2007 - globalag.igc.org
A dramatic decline in work at older ages persisted over most of the twentieth century.
Recently, however, retirement ages stabilized, prompting debate as to whether the early
retirement trend had stopped or simply paused.
L Friedberg… - … Economics Discussion Paper No. 2000-30, 2000 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In 1993, 38.9 million people were covered by a 401 (k) plan, up from 7.1 million in
1983. The rapid growth of 401 (k) and other defined contribution pension plans may alter
retirement patterns of older workers. Previous research showed that the spread of defined ...
[CITATION] The trend towards part-time work among older workers
L Friedberg - University of California, San Diego, 1999
L Friedberg… - Education Finance and Policy, 2010 - MIT Press
Abstract While the retirement security landscape has changed drastically for most workers
over the last twenty years, traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plans remain the
overwhelming norm for K-12 teachers. Because DB plans pay off fully with a fixed income ...
L Friedberg… - Center for Retirement Research at Boston …, 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact on labor supply of changes in the Social
Security earnings test in 1996 and 2000. We highlight how the persistence of labor supply
choices influences both responses to policy changes and the estimation of such ...
JB Cullen, L Friedberg… - University of California-Berkeley …, 2004 - Citeseer
Home energy costs comprise a significant fraction of household budgets, particularly for
poor families. 1 Moreover, home energy costs fluctuate both predictably and unpredictably
with energy prices and seasonal effects. We exploit these sources of exogenous variation ...
L Friedberg, MT Owyang… - 2005 - nber.org
Recent declines in job tenure have coincided with a shift away from traditional defined
benefit (DB) pensions, which reward long tenure. Recent evidence also points to an
increase in job-to-job movements by workers, and we document gains in relative wages of ...
JB Cullen, L Friedberg… - 2005 - escholarship.org
Abstract: Home energy costs comprise a significant fraction of household budgets,
particularly for poor families. This paper analyzes how household consumption responds to
changes in home energy outlays over the course of the year. We specify Euler equations ...
L Friedberg, M Owyang… - CRR Working Paper No. 2008- …, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The ability to retire at an age and in a manner of one's choosing depends on one's
ability to retain or find employment at older ages, which depends in turn on local labor
market conditions. We investigate how local labor markets affect retirement transitions. We ...
L Friedberg… - Unpublished manuscript. University of …, 2004 - wuecon195.wustl.edu
Abstract. In answers to unique questions from the National Survey of Families and
Households, people reveal their valuations of their options outside of marriage as well as
their beliefs about their spouses' options. We use this data to demonstrate several features ...
[CITATION] The Impact of Technological Change on Older Workers
L Friedberg - 1997 - mimeo., UC San Diego
L Friedberg - Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2011 - nber.org
The retirement pensions available to most workers have shifted drastically over the last thirty
years–for everyone but state and local government employees. Most private-sector
employers, as well as the federal government, have stopped offering traditional defined ...
[CITATION] Did unilateral divorce laws raise divorce rates? a reconciliation and new results
L Friedberg - American Economic Review, 1998
I Dushi… - 2006 - works.bepress.com
Abstract We calculate the risk faced by defined benefit plan providers arising from uncertain
aggregate mortality—the risk that the average participant will live longer than expected. First,
comparing the widely cited Lee-Carter model to industry benchmarks, we show that plan ...
[CITATION] Explaining the evolution of pension structure and job tenure. Federal Reserve Bank of St
L Friedberg… - 2005 - Louis Economics Working Paper …
I Dushi, L Friedberg… - Journal of Pension …, 2010 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract We calculate the risk faced by defined benefit plan providers arising from uncertain
aggregate mortality–the risk that the average participant will live longer than expected. First,
comparing the widely cited Lee–Carter model to industry benchmarks that are commonly ...
L Friedberg - 1996 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publikationsansicht. 7890691. The effect of government programs on the labor supply of the
elderly (1996). Friedberg, Leora. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. ... of Economics, 1996.. Includes
bibliographical references.. by Leora Friedberg.. Ph.D. Details der Publikation. ...
L Friedberg… - Louis Review, January-February - Citeseer
Abstract The number of workers with a 401 (k) plan grew from 7.1 million in 1983 to 38.9
million by 1993. The rapid diffusion of this new type of pension plan underscores a broader
change in pension structure. Your father's pension plan was designed to give him a fixed ...
L Friedberg… - Economics uncut: a complete guide to …, 2005 - books.google.com
Why do people get married? Love, sex, children, money. Why do they get divorced?
Probably for the same reasons. While most people would, at most, want to hear what
economists have to say about the financial aspects of marriage, economists (who, ...
[CITATION] Life is Cheap
L Friedberg, A Webb… - 2006 - National Bureau of Economic …
[CITATION] Persistence in labor supply effect and the response to the Social Security earnings test
L Friedberg… - Center for Retirement Research, Boston College. http:// …, 2006
KM Engemann, L Friedberg… - The Regional Economist, 2005 - stlouisfed.org
Over the past quarter-century, it has become remarkably less common for people to work for
the same employer for most of their working lives. The reduction in tenure can have a
number of effects on the labor market, including a decline in the tendency of employers to ...
[CITATION] New Evidence on the Labor Supply Effects of the Social Security Earnings Test. Chapter 23 in Tax Policy and the Economy, edited by Jeffrey R. Brown and …
L Friedberg… - 2009
L Friedberg… - 2006 - works.bepress.com
Abstract Stress over the use of time is a hallmark of American life today. We analyze the role
of bargaining in explaining how spouses divide up leisure and chores. Unlike many other
outcomes of household decision-making, time use is easy to observe and assign using ...
L Friedberg… - Draft, University of Virginia, 2005 - people.virginia.edu
ABSTRACT A growing literature offers indirect evidence that the distribution of bargaining
power within a household influences decisions made by the household. These results
undermine the notion that a household can be treated as a “unitary” decision maker. The ...
[CITATION] Anthony Webb. 2008.“Identifying Local Differences in Retirement Patterns.”
L Friedberg… - Working Paper. Forthcoming. …
L Friedberg… - Redefining retirement: how will boomers …, 2007 - books.google.com
Workers have experienced a major shift in pension coverage over the last two decades, with
US employer-provided defined contribution (DC) pensions displacing traditional defined
benefit (DB) pensions. At the time, the rate of stock market participation among US ...
L Friedberg… - 2009 - nber.org
Executive Summary This paper investigates the impact on labor supply of changes in the
Social Security earnings test in 1996 and 2000. We highlight how inertia in labor supply
choices influences responses to policy changes. We do this in two ways. First, we show ...
L Friedberg, W Sun, A Webb… - 2008 - globalag.igc.org
* The authors are affiliated with the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
(CRR). Leora Friedberg is an associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia
and a research associate of the CRR. Wei Sun is a graduate research assistant at the ...
S Stern… - Virginia Economics Online Papers, 2005 - ideas.repec.org
In order to understand these ideas, we have to develop a model of both marriage and
divorce (or, in other words, a model that allows for changes over time in the utility from
marriage). In this chapter, we will set the stage for this analysis by discussing trends in ...
HJ Aaron, NE Adler, AB Atkinson… - Themes in the …, 2001 - books.google.com
Author Index Aaron, Henry J., 60, 61, 76 Adler, Nancy E., 132 Advisory Council on Social
Security, 5, 59 Atkinson, Anthony B., 341 Auerbach, AJ, 92, 118 Auster, Richard, 160 Ball, Robert
M., 60, 76 Bassett, WF, 27 Basu, Joy, 273 Beeuwkes Buntin, Melinda, 237 Benitez-Silva, ...
L Friedberg, S Wei… - CRR Working Paper No. 2008-17, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Work affects both the time available for non-market activities and the times at which
those activities are performed-and therefore work-induced constraints on time use may
influence retirement decisions. We analyze these effects by combining new data from the ...
A Webb, W Sun… - 2008 - works.bepress.com
... Anthony Webb, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Wei Sun, Center for
Retirement Research at Boston College Leora Friedberg, University of Virginia. Suggested
Citation. Anthony Webb, Wei Sun, and Leora Friedberg. 2008. ...
J Poterba, L Friedberg - 1996 - dspace.mit.edu
ABSTRACT Two chapters of this dissertation focus on elderly labor supply and how it has
been influenced by means or earnings tested government transfers. The third chapter
studies how divorce behavior responded to changes in state divorce laws. All three ...
HJ Aaron, NE Adler, AB Atkinson, AJ Auerbach… - nber.org
Ball, Robert M., 60, 76 Bassett, WF, 27 Basu, Joy, 273 Beeuwkes Buntin, Melinda, 237
Benitez-Silva, H., 283 Benzeval, Michaela, 130 Berkovec, James, 351 Bernheim, BD, 92, 93,
98–99, 124 Bethell, Thomas N., 60, 76 Blau, David M., 318 Blinder, Alan, 317n6 Börsch- ...
A Webb, L Friedberg… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Using data from several sources, we show that households nearing retirement
have lower rates of housing distress than younger households, as measured by arrears and
foreclosure rates. However, almost all of the housing wealth gains observed for cohorts ...
L Friedberg, W Sun… - 2008 - works.bepress.com
* The authors are affiliated with the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
(CRR). Leora Friedberg is an associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia
and a research associate of the CRR. Wei Sun is a graduate research assistant at the ...
I Dushi, L Friedberg… - 2010 - policyarchive.org
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Hovey House 140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Tel: 617-552-1762 Fax: 617-552-0191 http://crr.bc.edu ... Irena Dushi
is an Economist at the Social Security Administration, Office of Retirement and Disability ...
S Stern… - Virginia Economics Online Papers, 2010 - ideas.repec.org
In answers to unique questions from the National Survey of Fam-ilies and Households,
people reveal their valuations of their options outside of marriage as well as their beliefs
about their spouses? options. We use this data to demonstrate several features of ...
L Friedberg… - National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009 - eric.ed.gov
Abstract: While the pension plan landscape has changed remarkably over the last two
decades, with most private-sector workers seeing a shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined
contribution (DC) plans, DB pension plans remain the overwhelming norm for K-12 ...
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