How the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy May Affect Retirement Benefits and Reforms

Older Americans have experienced dramatic gains in life expectancy in recent decades, but an emerging literature reveals that these gains are accumulating mostly to those at the top of the income distribution. We explore how growing inequality in life expectancy affects lifetime benefits from Social...

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Veröffentlicht in:	NBER Working Paper Series 2017-04, p.23329
Hauptverfasser:	Goldman, Dana, Weil, David N, Charles, Kerwin, Orszag, Peter R, Coile, Courtney, Sheiner, Louise, Auerbach, Alan J, Lee, Ronald, Lucas, Charles, Gale, William, Tysinger, Bryan, Wolfers, Justin, Wong, Rebeca
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Economic theory Economics of Aging Economics of Health Income distribution Life expectancy Public Economics Retirement Retirement benefits
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