Research Catalog

Title

Social security policy in a changing environment / edited by Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey Liebman, and David A. Wise.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Jeffrey R. (Jeffrey Robert), 1968-
• Liebman, Jeffrey B.
• Wise, David A.

Description

xi, 459 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Uniform Title

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

Subject

• Social security > Government policy > United States > Congresses

Note

• "This volume consists of papers presented at a conference held in Woodstock, VT in October 2006"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey Liebman and David A. Wise -- I. Innovative Approaches to Social Security Reform -- 1. Removing the Disincentives in Social Security for Long Careers / Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita Nataraj Slavov -- 2. Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability / Alan J. Auerbach and Ronald Lee -- 3. Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts / John Geanakoplos and Stephen P. Zeldes -- II. Retirement Plan Choice -- 4. Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans? / Jeffrey R. Brown and Scott J. Weisbenner -- 5. The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States / John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian -- III. Reducing Financial Market Risk in Personal Retirement Accounts -- 6. Reducing the Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform / Martin Feldstein -- 7. Pricing Personal Account Benefit Guarantees: A Simplified Approach / Andrew Biggs, Clark Burdick and Kent Smetters -- 8. Reducing Social Security PRA Risk at the Individual Level: Life-Cycle Funds and No-Loss Strategies / James M. Poterba, Joshua Rauh, Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise -- 9. Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security / Andrew A. Samwick -- IV. Demographics, Asset Flows, and Macroeconomic Markets -- 10. The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows / James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise -- 11. Demographic Change, Relative Factor Prices, International Capital Flows, and Their Differential Effects on the Welfare of Generations / Alexander Ludwig, Dirk Kruger and Axel Borsch-Supan -- V. Mortality Projections -- 12. Is the U.S. Population Behaving Healthier? / David M. Cutler, Edward L. Glaeser and Allison B. Rosen.

ISBN

• 9780226076485 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226076482 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008031051
• 40016847451

OCLC

• ocn234257212
• 234257212
• SCSB-9039206

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries