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  06/19/08     EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
"Risk-Based Supervision of Pension Funds: A Review of International Experience and Preliminary Assessment of the First Outcomes"  Gregory G. Brunner, Richard Hinz and Roberto de Rezende Rocha
"Corporate Use of Cash Balance Pension Plans"  Kandice Kapinos
"Equity Valuation Effects of the Pension Protection Act of 2006"  John L. Campbell, Dan S. Dhaliwal and William C. Schwartz Jr.
"Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking"
Michael D. Grubb and Paul Oyer
"Not All Plan Failures are Created Equal: Inventing the Code Section 409A Correction Program" Brian A. Benko
"Savings Needed to Fund Health Insurance and Health Care Expenses in Retirement: Findings from a Simulation Model"  Paul Fronstin, Dallas L. Salisbury and Jack VanDerhei
"Healthcare Reform in the United States: The Role of the States"  Arthur B. LaFrance
 
  06/12/08     SAVING
"Why Not a 'Super Simple' Saving Plan for the United States?"  Pamela J. Perun and C. Eugene Steuerle
"Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-Up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving"  Emmanuel Saez
"Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement"  Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider
"The Interplay between Labor and Financial Markets: What are the Implications for Defined Contribution Accounts?"  Christian E. Weller and Jeffrey B. Wenger
"Who Should Own a Pension Surplus - Employer or Employees? An Assessment of Arguments About Asymmetry of Risks and Rewards and Deferred Wages in Pension Plans"  James A. Wooten
"'The Longest Journey, with a First Step': Bringing Coherence to Sovereignty and Jurisdictional Issues in Global Employee Benefits Law"  Paul M. Secunda
 
  06/05/08     RETIREMENT
"Ownership of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and 401(K)-Type Plans" Craig Copeland
"A New Look at the Wealth Adequacy of Older U.S. Households"  Paul A. Smith, David A. Love, and Lucy C. McNair
"The 2008 Retirement Confidence Survey: Americans Much More Worried About Retirement, Health Costs a Big Concern"  Ruth Helman, Jack VanDerhei, and Craig Copeland,
"Proposed Rebates in 2008: How Will Americans Spend Their Tax Rebate Checks?"  Leslie E. Linfield
"Life-Cycle Investing and Leverage: Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk"  Ian Ayres and Barry J. Nalebuff  
"The Impact of Individual Investment Behavior for Retirement Welfare: Evidence from the United States and Germany"  Thomas Post, Helmut Gründl, Joan T. Schmit, and Anja Zimmer
 
  05/29/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Who Killed Katie Couric? And Other Tales from the World of Executive Compensation Reform"  
Kenneth M. Rosen
"Pay (Be)fore Performance: The Signing Bonus as an Incentive Device" Ed Van Wesep
"Gender and Executive Compensation in S&P Listed Firms" Walayet A. Khan and João Paulo Vieito
"Chief Executive Officer Equity Incentives and Accounting Irregularities"  Chris Armstrong,
Alan D. Jagolinzer, and David F. Larcker
 
  05/22/08     EMPLOYEES AND STOCK
"The Impact of Employee-Share-Ownership Schemes on Performance in Unionized and Non-Unionized Workplaces" Sukanya Sengupta
"Employee Capitalism or Corporate Socialism? Broad-Based Employee Stock Ownership"  E. Han Kim and Paige Parker Ouimet
"Designing Robust Stock Option Plans"  Olaf Korn, Clemens Paschke and Marliese Uhrig-Homburg
"Binary Economics: The Economic Theory that Gave Rise to ESOPs"  Robert Ashford
"Why do Employees Participate in Employee Share Plans? A Conceptual Framework"  Michelle Brown, Ingrid Landau, Richard Mitchell, Ann O'Connell, and Ian Ramsay
"Neighborhood Matters: The Impact of Location on Broad Based Stock Option Plans"  Simi Kedia  and Shivaram Rajgopal
 
  05/14/08     HEALTHCARE
"Managed Care and Medical Expenditures of Medicare Beneficiaries"  Michael Chernew, Philip DeCicca and Robert J. Town,
"Modernizing Medicare: Protecting America's Most Vulnerable Patients from Predatory Health Care Marketing Through Accessible Legal Remedies"  Elizabeth Canney Borer
"Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance"  Richard Frank and Karine Lamiraud
"Findings From the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Survey"  Paul Fronstin and Sara R. Collins
"Findings from the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey: Implications for Plan Sponsors"  Richard Ostuw
"The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men"  David M. Blau and Donna B. Gilleskie
"Universal Public Health Insurance and Private Coverage: Externalities in Health Care Consumption"  Sherry Glied
 
  05/08/08     RETIREMENT
"Net Worth and Housing Equity in Retirement"  Todd M. Sinai and Nicholas S. Souleles
"Mandatory Retirement and Faculty Retirement Decisions"  Robert L. Clark and Linda S. Ghent
"How Do Immigrants Fare in Retirement"  Purvi Sevak and Lucie Schmidt
"The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior"  Eric French and
John Bailey Jones
"Housing Wealth and Retirement Timing"  Martin Farnham and Purvi Sevak
"The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Actual Spending Change in Panel Data" Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
 
  05/01/08     FINANCIAL LITERACY
"Against Financial Literacy Education" Lauren E. Willis
"Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation"  Maarten Van Rooij, Annamaria Lusardi, and Rob Alessie
"Do Financial Education Programs Work?" Ian Hathaway and Sameer Khatiwada
"Evidence and Ideology in Assessing the Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Education"  Lauren E. Willis
"Financial Literacy and Mutual Fund Investments: Who Buys Actively Managed Funds?"  Sebastian Müller and Martin Weber
"Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs"  Annamaria Lusardi
"The Determinants of Household Risky Asset Holdings: Background Risk and Other Factors"  
Buly A. Cardak and Roger Wilkins
 
  04/24/08     PENSIONS
"To Roth or Not? - That is the Question"  Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and David Rapson
"Total Individual Account Retirement Plan Assets, by Demographics, 2004"  Craig Copeland
"Applying the Reorganization Test to Pension Plans in the Aggregrate: Was the Third Circuit Correct?"  Matthew Altomare
"How Deep is the Annuity Market Participation Puzzle?" Paula Lopes,Alexander Michaelides and
Joachim Inkmann
"For How Long Will Defined Benefit Liabilities Continue to Grow?" Santiago Caballero
"The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle"  Erik Hurst
"Perspectives: What Ails Public Pensions?"  Richard M. Ennis
"Footnotes Aren't Enough: The Impact of Pension Accounting on Stock Values"  Julia Lynn Coronado, Olivia S. Mitchell, Steven A. Sharpe, and S. Blake Nesbitt
 
  04/17/08     SOCIAL SECURITY
"The Impact of the Unit of Observation on the Measurement of the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly" T. Lynn Fisher
"Social Security and Retirement Decision: A Positive and Normative Approach"  Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur and Pierre Pestieau
"A Longitudinal Analysis of Entries and Exits of the Low-Income Elderly to and from the Supplemental Security Income Program" Todd E. Elder and Elizabeth T. Powers
"Marriage-Like Relationships' and Social Security: Retirees and the Age-Pension" Malcolm Voyce
"Estimates of Unreported Asset Income in the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly" T. Lynn Fisher
"Measuring the Relative Importance of Social Security Benefits to the Elderly"  T. Lynn Fisher
 
  04/10/08     ERISA AND FIDUCIARY DUTY
"ERISA, Agency Costs, and the Future of Health Care in the United States"  John Bronsteen,
Brendan S. Maher, and Peter K. Stris
"Employer Mandates and ERISA Preemption in the Ninth Circuit" EDWARD A. ZELINSKY
"Naming a Defendant in an ERISA Action" Candace Budy and Richard A. Bales,
"ERISA Pre-emption: Implications for Health Reform and Coverage"  William L. Pierron and Paul Fronstin
"Your Fiduciary Legacy"  Brooks Hamilton
 
  04/03/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Legal Institutions, Board Diligence, and Top Executive Pay"  Steffen H. Brenner and Joachim Schwalbach,
"Sued or Glued - How to Compensate the CEO?"  Rob Bauer, Robin Braun and Frank Moers
"Are Perks Excess? Evidence from the New Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules"  Yaniv Grinstein, David Weinbaum and Nir Yehuda
"Corporate Board Governance and Voluntary Disclosure of Executive Compensation Practices"  Indrarini Laksmana
"Executive Compensation Consultants in the United States and United Kingdom"  Martin J. Conyon
"Too Good to be True: Do Concentrated Institutional Investors Really Reduce Executive Compensation Whilst Raising Incentives?"  Gavin Smith and Peter L. Swan
"Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives"  Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel and Pietro Veronesi
 
  03/27/08     HEALTH CARE
"The Future of Employment-Based Health Benefits: Will Employers Reach a Tipping Point?"  John A. MacDonald
"The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending"  John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard and Daniel P. Kessler
"Health Insurance: Market Failure or Government Failure?"  David A. Hyman
"The Patient Life: Can Consumers Direct Health Care?"  Carl E. Schneider and Mark A. Hall
"Will the Slowdown in U.S. Health Cost Growth Continue? A Factor Market Perspective"  John Sabelhaus
"Measuring Financial Protection in Health"  Adam Wagstaff
"Healthcare Reform in the United States: The Role of the States"  Arthur B. LaFrance
 
  03/20/08     RETIREMENT
"Estimating the Health Effects of Retirement"  John Bound and Timothy Waidmann
"Life-Cycle Models: Lifetime Earnings and the Timing of Retirement"  John Laitner and Dan Silverman
"Burnout and the Retirement Decision"  Nicole Maestas and Xiaoyan Li
"Measuring Retirement Resource Adequacy"  Peter J. Brady
"Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning: New Evidence from the Rand American Life Panel"  
Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
"Labor Market Status and Transitions During the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences"  Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest and James Banks
"Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies"  
Alan L. Gustman and Thomas L. Steinmeier
"Hours Flexibility and Retirement"  Kerwin Kofi Charles and Philip DeCicca
 
  03/13/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives"  Efraim Benmelech, Eugene Kandel and Pietro Veronesi,
"Money for Nothing and the Stocks for Free: Taxing Executive Compensation"  Meredith R. Conway
"Golden Parachute as a Compensation-Shifting Mechanism"  Albert H. Choi
"Executive Pay, Career Path and Firm Size"  Jaeyoung Sung and Peter L. Swan
"Shareholders' Say on Pay: Does it Create Value?"  Jie Cai and Ralph A. Walkling
"Is There a Firm-Size Effect in CEO Stock Option Grants?"  Jean Canil
"Small Chances and Large Gains: Why Riskier Companies Grant More Employee Stock Options"  Oliver G. Spalt
 
  03/06/08     SAVING
"The Flypaper Effect in Individual Investor Asset Allocation"  James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
"Why Don't People Insure Late Life Consumption: A Framing Explanation of the Under-Annuitization Puzzle" Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey R. Kling, Sendhil Mullainathan and Marian Wrobel
"Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare?"  Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
"Dealing With the Reluctant Investor: Innovation and Governance in DC Pension Investment"  
Alistair Byrne, Debbie Harrison and David P. Blake
"Investor Competence, Information, and Investment Activity"  Anders Karlsson and Lars L. Norden
"Household Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Literacy, Information, and Financial Education Programs"  Annamaria Lusardi
"ERISA's Participant Benefit Statement Requirements: Current Rules Under PPA '06 and a Suggested Blueprint for Future Interpretation"  Kathryn J. Kennedy
"Marital Status and Portfolio Choice"  David A. Love
 
  02/28/08     SOCIAL SECURITY
"Social Security in a Globalizing World"  K. P. Kannan
"Extending Social Security Coverage: Concepts, Global Trends and Policy Issues"  Wouter van Ginneken
"The Economic Consequences of the Welfare State"  Isabela Mares
"Dynamic Social Security: A Framework for Directing Change and Extending Coverage"  Roddy McKinnon
"Offshoring, Economic Insecurity, and the Demand for Social Insurance"  Richard G. Anderson and Charles S. Gascon
"Social Security Reform: An Analysis of the Ball/Altman Three-Point Plan"  Kathryn L. Moore
"Who Values the Social Security Annuity? New Evidence on the Annuity Puzzle"  Jeffrey R. Brown, Marcus D. Casey and Olivia S. Mitchell
 
  02/21/08     HEALTH CARE
"Gender Differences in the Valuation of Employer-Provided Health Insurance"  Nasser Daneshvary and Terrence M. Clauretie,
"Life Care Payments Vs. Long-Term Care Insurance Premiums"  Burgess J.W. Raby and William L. Raby
"Curing Healthcare"  Stuart Crainer
"Golden Gate Restaurant Association: Employer Mandates and ERISA Preemption in the Ninth Circuit"  Edward A. Zelinsky
"Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance" David M. Cutler, Amy Finkelstein and Kathleen M. McGarry,
"Covering the Uninsured in the U.S."  Jonathan Gruber
 
  02/14/08     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Hands-Off Options" Jesse M. Fried
"Some Thoughts for Boards of Directors in 2008" Martin Lipton
"Optimal Exercise of Executive Stock Options and Implications for Firm Cost" Jennifer N. Carpenter, Richard Stanton and Nancy Wallace
"To Each According to Her Luck and Power: Optimal Corporate Governance and Compensation Policy in a Dynamic World"  Thomas H. Noe, Oxford and Michael J. Rebello
"The Road to Riches: CEO Incentives and Firm Performance"  Gavin Smith and Peter L. Swan
"CEO Centrality"  Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers and Urs Peyer
"What Do Unions Do to CEO Compensation?"  Konstantinos Tzioumis and Rafael Gomez
 
  02/07/08     RETIREMENT INCOME
"Expenditures of the Aged Chartbook"  Kimberly D. Burham
"Retirement Annuity and Employment-Based Pension Income, Among Individuals Age 50 and Over: 2006" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Who is Entitled to Survivor Benefits from ERISA Plans?" Albert Feuer
"Finances of Employee Benefits, 1950-2006"  Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets"  Motohiro Yogo
"Top Ten Myths of Social Security"  Richard L. Kaplan
"Designing a Social Security Pension System"  Robert L. Brown
"Managing the Beast: How Government Can Reduce Wealth Inequality"  Jonathan Barry Forman
"Labor-Force Participation: The Population Age 55 and Older"  Craig Copeland  
 
  01/31/08     HEALTHCARE
"On the Preference for Full-Coverage Policies: Why do People Buy Too Much Insurance?" Zur Shapira and Itzhak Venezia
"The Emerging Paradigm in the United States." Arleen Leibowitz
"Listening to Consumers: Values-Focused Health Benefits and Education" Lois A. Vitt and Ray Werntz
"How Can We Efficiently Cover the Uninsured? A Micro-Simulation Model of Health Insurance Coverage."   Asako Shimazaki
"Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?" Richard V. Burkhauser and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
"The Right to Health - A Holistic Health Plan for the Next Administration" Barbara P. Billauer
"Death and Taxes: The Impact of Income Taxation on Health" Anca Maria Cotet
 
  01/24/08     RETIREMENT
"The Retirement Decision: Current Influences on the Timing of Retirement among Older Workers" Gaobo Pang, Mark J. Warshawsky and Ben Weitzer
"Income of the Elderly Population Age 65 and Over, 2006" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"Net Worth and Housing Equity in Retirement" Todd M. Sinai and Nicholas S. Souleles
"Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men" John Bound and Todd R. Stinebrickner
"A Theory of Retirement" David E. Bloom, David Canning and Michael Moore
 
  01/17/08     INVESTMENT ISSUES
"Behavioral Obstacles in the Annuity Market"  Wei-Hu and Jason S. Scott
"Contingent Claims Analysis and Life-Cycle Finance"  Zvi Bodie, Doriana Ruffino and Jonahan Treussard
"The Effects of an Optional Federal Charter on Competition in the Life Insurance Industry" Martin F. Grace and Robert W. Klein
"Revisiting U.S. Stock Market Returns: Individual Retirement Accounts"  A. (Tassos) G. Malliaris
"Optimal Gradual Annuitization: Quantifying the Costs of Switching to Annuities"  Wolfram J. Horneff, Raimond Maurer and Michael Z. Stamos
"Optimizing the Equity-Bond-Annuity Portfolio in Retirement: The Impact of Uncertain Health Expenses"  Gaobo Pang and Mark J. Warshawsky
"Investment Principles for Individual Retirement Accounts"  A. (Tassos) G. Malliaris and Mary Malliaris
"PPA '06 Makes IRA Rollovers More Attractive: Maybe it's Time to Switch to a Self Direct IRA? Think Again!"  Kathryn J. Kennedy
 
  01/10/08     HEALTHCARE
"Dynamic Inefficiencies in Employment-Based Health Insurance System Theory and Evidence."
Hanming Fang and Alessandro Gavazza
"Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll." Angus Deaton
"Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment."  Katherine Baicker and
Helen Levy
"The Future of Employment-Based Health Benefits: Have Employers Reached a Tipping Point?"  
Paul Fronstin
"The Temporally-Flawed Concept of Binding Promises in American Collective Bargaining and Employee Benefits Law: A Source of the Concurrent Crises in the U.S. Industrial Relations, Retirement, and Health Care Systems."  Marley S. Weiss
"Do Consumers Purchase Too Much Health Insurance? The Role of Market Power in Health-Care Markets."  Berthold U. Wigger and Markus Anlauf
 
  2007 Articles  
  12/20/07     SAVING AND SPENDING
"New Age Thinking: Alternative Ways of Measuring Age, Their Relationship to Labor Force Participation, Government Policies and GDP" John B. Shoven
"Effects of Individual Development Accounts on Asset Purchases and Saving Behavior: Evidence from a Controlled Experiment"  Emil Apostolov, Rhiannon Patterson, Gregory Mills, William G. Gale, Michael D. Eriksen and Gary V. Engelhardt
"Understanding Pensions: Cognitive Function, Numerical Ability and Retirement Saving" James Banks and Zoe Oldfield
"The Trajectory of Wealth in Retirement" David A. Love, Michael Palumbo and Paul A. Smith
"IRA Assets and Contributions, 2006" Craig Copeland
"Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation" Maarten Van Rooij, Annamaria Lusardi and Rob Alessie
 
  12/13/07     HEALTHCARE
"The Macroeconomic Consequences of Financing Health Insurance" Stephen B. Deloach and Jennifer M. Platania
"Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S." June O'Neill and Dave M O'Neill
"2007 Health Confidence Survey: Rising Health Care Costs are Changing the Ways Americans Use the Health Care System" Ruth Helman and Paul Fronstin
"The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts" Juergen Jung and Chung Tran
"Legal Implications of Proposed GM/UAW VEBA" Stephen F. Diamond
"Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for Early Retirees: Impacts on Retirement, Health, and Health Care" Erin Strumpf
 
  12/06/07     RETIREMENT
"Employment Status of Workers Ages 55 or Older" Craig Copeland
"Do Funds Need Governance? Evidence from Variable Annuity-Mutual Fund Twins" Richard B. Evans and Rudiger Fahlenbrach
"Employment-Based Retirement Plan Participation: Geographic Differences and Trends, 2006" "Revised Pension Rules and the Cost of Debt" Kenneth W. Shaw
"The Aging of the Boomers and the Coming Crisis in America's Changing Retirement and Elder Care Systems" Henry Drummonds
"The Effect of Retirement Incentives on Retirement Behavior: Evidence from the Self-Employed in the United States and England" Julie M. Zissimopoulos, Nicole Maestas and Lynn A. Karoly    
 
  11/29/07     COMPENSATION
"Controlling Executive Compensation Through the Tax Code" Gregg D. Polsky
"Shareholders' Say on Pay: Does it Create Value?" Jie Cai and Ralph A. Walkling
"Changes in Bonus Contracts in the Post-Sarbanes-Oxley Era" Mary Ellen Carter, Luann J. Lynch and Sarah L Center Zechman
"Employee Capitalism or Corporate Socialism? Broad-Based Employee Stock Ownership" E. Han Kim and Paige Parker Ouimet
"Stock-Based Pay: An Incentive for Performance or a Compensation for Competence? How to Compensate a Manager When He is Competent?" Pascal Louvet and Ollivier Taramasco
"The Impact of Tax Status on the Relation between Employee Stock Options and Debt" Jagadison K.Aier and Jared A. Moore
 
  11/21/07     ANNUITIES
"Tax Planning for Required Spousal Annuities Under Qualified Retirement Plans and TSAs" Vorris J. Blankenship
"Annuities and Aggregate Mortality Uncertainty" Justin Van de Ven and Martin R. Weale
"Rational and Behavioral Perspectives on the Role of Annuities in Retirement Planning" Jeffrey R. Brown
"Flexible Life Annuities" Alexis Direr
"Morbidity, Mortality, Health Expenditures and Annuitization" Kam Ki Tang
"Shrinking Boomer Social Security Retirement Benefits" Francine J. Lipman
 
  11/15/07     HEALTH AND WORK
"Older Workers' Access to Employer-Sponsored Retiree Health Insurance, 2000-2004" Christine Eibner, Alice M. Zawacki and Elaine M. Zimmerman
"A Tax on Work for the Elderly: Medicare as a Secondary Payer" Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita N. Slavov
"Health Insurance and Labor Markets: Concepts, Open Questions, and Data Needs" A. Bowen Garrett and Michael Chernew
"The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes" Dhaval Dave, Inas Rashad and Jasmina Spasojevice
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 2007 Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
 
  11/08/07     ERISA AND HEALH
"Trust Law as Regulatory Law: The Unum/Provident Scandal and Judicial Review of Benefit Denials Under ERISA" John H. Langbein
"ERISA Preemption and Fair Share Legislation" Sharon Reece
"ERISA Pre-emption and Health Care Reform: A History Lesson" Michael S. Gordon
"Governor Schwarzenegger's Proposal for Univeral Health Care: A Policy-Based and Legal Analysis" James W. Kim
"The Massachusetts Health Plan: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" David A. Hyman
"The Health Care Choice Act: The Individual Insurance Market and the Politics of 'Choice'" Elizabeth A. Pendo
"Taxing the Disabled: The IRS, the Insurance Industry, and the Disability Waiver of Premium Rider" Andrew Strelka
"Fiduciary Constraints: Correlating Obligation With Liability" Dana M. Muir and Cindy A. Schipani
 
  11/01/07     PENSION ISSUES
"Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior" David Card  and Michael R. Ransom
"A Legislative and Political History of ERISA Preemption, Part 1" James A. Wooten
"A Legislative and Political History of ERISA Preemption, Part 2" James A. Wooten
"401(k)-Type Plans and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs)" Craig Copeland
"Why Did Trust Law Become Statute Law in the United States?" John H. Langbein
"The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation Under Automatic Enrollment" John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
"The Dynamics of Lifecycle Investing in 401(k) Plans" Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary R. Mottola, Stephen P. Utkus and Takeshi Yamaguchi
"The Expected Impact of Automatic Escalation of 401(k)Contributions on Retirement Income" Jack Vanderhei
 
  10/25/07     FINANCING RETIREMENT
"Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in investment-Based Social Security" Andrew A. Samwick
"Removing the Disincentives in Social Security for Long Careers" Gopi Shah Goda, Sita N. Slavov and John B. Shoven
"Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model" David M. Blau
"Effects of After-Tax Pension and Social Security Benefits on Household Wealth: Evidence from a Sample of Retirees" William G. Gale, Michael Dworsky, John W. R. Phillips and Leslie Muller
"Risk, Institutions, and the Erosion of Old-Age Income Security" John C. Scott
"Efficient Retirement Financial Strategies" william F. Sharpe, Jason S. Scott and John G. Watson
"Social Security Benefits as a Retirement Resource for U.S. Near-Retirees" Enjamin Ridges and Harmila Houdhury
 
  10/18/07     DEFINED BENEFIT PLANS
"Risk Shifting Versus Risk Management: Investment Policy in Corporate Pension Plans" Joshua D. Rauh
"The Crisis in Corporate America: Private Pension Liability and Proposals for Reform" T. Leigh Anenson and Karen Eilers Lahey
"Public Pension Liability: Why Reform is Necessary to Save the Retirement of State Employees" Karen Eilers Lahey and T. Leigh Anenson
"The New Single-Employer Defined Benefit Plan Funding Rules: What's in Store for Defined Benefit Plan Sponsors and Participants?" Christopher E. Condeluci
"Why Do Firms Offer Risky Defined Benefit Pension Plans?" David A. Love, Paul A. Smith and David W. Wilcox
"Guaranteed Trouble: The Economic Effects of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation" Jeffrey R. Brown
"Another Bump in the Road: The Cash Balance Saga Never Ends" Alvin D. Lurie
 
  10/11/07     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"How Much is Too Much? A Theoretical Analysis of Executive Compensation from the Standpoint of Distributive Justice" Jared D. Harris
"The Power of the Pen and Executive Compensation" John E. Core, Wayne R. Guay and David F. Larcker
"Does the Use of Peer Groups Contribute to Higher Pay and Less Efficient Compensation?" John M. Bizjak, Michael L. Lemmon and Lalitha Naveen
"Disclosure of the Fair Value of Executive Stock Options Granted to Top Executives" Kevin C. K. Lam and Yaw M. Mensah
"Two Goals for Executive Compensation Reform" Brett McDonnell
"Incentives to Cheat: The Influence of Executive Compensation and Firm Performance on Financial Misrepresentation" Jared D. Harris and Philip Bromiley
 
  10/04/07     HEALTH CARE AND TAXES
"Dynamic Inefficiencies in Employment-Based Health Insurance System: Theory and Evidence" Hanming Fang and Alessandro Gavazza
"Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Critiques and Proposals" Doug Jones
"Tax Incentives and the Decision to Purchase Long-Term Care Insurance" Charles Courtemanche and Daifeng He
"U.S. Tax Policy and Health Insurance Demand: Can a Regressive Policy Improve Welfare?" Karsten Jeske and Sagiri Kitao
"Health Insurance and Taxes: Can Changing the Tax Treatment of Health Insurance Fix Our Health Care System?" Paul Fronstin and Dallas L. Salisbury
"Of State Laboratories and Legislative Alloys: How 'Fair Share'Laws Can be Written to Avoid Erisa Preemption and Influence Private Sector Health Care Reform in America" Darren Abernethy
 
  09/27/07     DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLANS
"Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior" David Card and Michael R. Ransom
"The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle" Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix and David Laibson
"Employee Saving and Investment Decisions in Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Survey Evidence from the UK" Alistair Byrne
"Default Funds in UK Defined Contribution Pension Plans" Alistair Byrne, David P. Blake, Andrew J. G. Cairns and Kevin Dowd
"Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type" Alan L. Gustmam, Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai
"The Expected Impact of Automatic Escalation of 401(k)Contributions on Retirement Income" Jack Vanderhei
 
  09/20/07     SOCIAL SECURITY
"Making America Work: Alfred P. Murrah Professorship Inaugural Lecture" Jonathan Barry Forman
"How Have People Responded to Changes in the Retirement Earnings Test in 2000?" Jae Song and Joyce Manchester
"Issues Facing State and Local Government Pensions" Rick Mattoon
"Riding the Third Rail: The Politics of Social Security Reform in the Retrenchment Era" Marc L. Goldwein
"Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data Since 1937" Woyciech Kopczuk and Emmanual Saez
"Social Security Benefits as a Retirement Resource for U.S. Near-Retirees" Enjamin Ridges and Harmila Houdhury
"What Explains Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Men in the United States?" David M. Blau and Ryan Goodstein
"Social Security and the Timing of Divorce" Gopi Shah Goda, John B. Shoven and Sita N. Slavov
"Counting the Ways: The Structure of Federal Spending" Howell E. Jackson
 
  09/13/07     HEALTH CARE
"Modeling Employee Choice of Health Plan" Caroline Carlin and Robert J. Town
"Premium Growth between 1997 and 2004 and its Effect on Employer-Sponsored Insurance" Thomas M. Selden and Jessica Primoff Vistnes
"Demand for High-Deductible and 'Consumer-Directed' Health Plans" Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Roland D. McDevitt, Hayoung Park, Cheryl Damberg and Ryan Lore
"Benefit Limits for Behavioral Health Care in Private US Health Plans" Dominic Hodgkin, Constance Horgan, Deborah Garnick and Elizabeth Merrick
"State Health Insurance Mandates, Consumer Directed Health Plans and Health Savings Accounts: Are They a Panacea for Small Businesses?" Susan M. Gates, Kanika Kapur and Pinar Karaca-Mandic
"The Role of Health Insurance in the Joint Retirement of Married Couples" Kanika Kapur and Jeannette A. Rogowski
"Labor Market Effects of Employer-Provided Health Insurance" Katerina Sherstyuk, Yoav Wachsman and Gerard Russo
"Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage" Kevin Land and Hong Kang
 
  09/06/07     SAVING
"The Case for Child Accounts" Lisa Mensah, Pamela J. Perun and Elena Chavez Quezada
"College Grants on a Postcard: A Proposal for Simple and Predictable Federal Student Aid" Susan M. Dynarski
"The Failure of Education Tax Incentives" Deborah Schenk and Andrew L. Grossman
"The Theory of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing" Zvi Bodie, Jonathan Treussard and Paul Willen
"Individual Account Investment Options and Portfolio Choice: Behavioral Lessons from 401(K) Plans" Jeffrey R. Brown, Nellie Liang and Scott J. Weisbenner
"Choice Architecture and Retirement Saving Plans" Shlomo Benartzi, Ehud Peleg and Richard H. Thaler    
 
  08/30/07     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Two Goals for Executive Compensation Reform" Brett McDonnell
"Unpacking Backdating: Economic Analysis and Observations on the Stock Option Scandal" David I. Walker
"Perspectives: Executive Compensation: Much Ado About Nothing?" Denise Dickins and Bob Houmes
"Perspectives: On the Use (and Abuse) of Stock Option Grants" Randall A. Heron, Erik Lie and Tod Perry
"Expensing Executive Stock Options: The Agency Problem and Structure of Management Compensation" Fayez A. Elayan, Thomas O. Meyer and Jennifer Li
"Stock and Option Proportions in Executive Compensation" Phelim P. Boyle, Ranjini Jha, Shannon Kennedy and Weidong Tian
"Director Compensation and CEO Bargaining Power in REITs" Zhilan Feng, Chinmoy Ghosh and C.F. Sirmans
 
  08/23/07     401(K) PLANS
"New Estimates of the Future Path of 401(K) Assets" James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise
"Rise of 401(K) Plans, Lifetime Earnings, and Wealth at Retirement" James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise
"Life-Cycle Funds" Luis M. Viceira
"401(K) Plan Asset Allocation, Account Balances, and Loan Activity in 2006" Jack Vanderhei, Sarah Holden, Craig Copeland and Luis Alonso
"Default Funds in U.K. Defined-Contribution Plans" Alistair Byrne, David P. Blake, Andrew J. G Cairns and Kevin Dowd
"The 'Prudent Retiree Rule': What to Do When Retirement Security Is Impossible?" Jeffrey N. Gordon
"Defined Contribution Plans and the Distribution of Pension Wealth" William E. Even and David A. MacPherson
 
  08/17/07     DEFINED BENEFIT PLANS
"Conceptualizing the Defined Benefit Pension Promise: Implications from a Survey of Expert Opinion" Gordon Leslie Clark and Ashby Monk
"Perspectives: Why Not Trade Pension Claims?" Bernard Dumas and Juerg M. Syz
"Should Defined Benefit Pension Schemes Be Career Average or Final Salary?" Charles Sutcliffe
"Experts Track Continuing Evolution of U.S. Pension System" John A. MacDonald
"Must We Teach Abstinence? Pensions' Relationship Investments and the Lessons of Fiduciary Duty" Ethan Stone
"Retirement Income Adequacy After PPA and FAS 158: Part One--Plan Sponsors' Reactions" Jack Vanderhei
 
  08/09/07     HEALTH POLICY
"Impact of Tort Reform on Private Health Insurance Coverage" Ronen Avraham and Max M. Schanzenbach
"Public Support for National Health Insurance: Roles of Attitudes and Beliefs" M. Kate Bundorf and Victor R. Fuchs
"Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed" Gulcin Gumus and Tracy Regan
"Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly" Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Gruber and Robin McKnight
"Can the Elderly Have Too Much Choice?: Insurance for Prescription Drugs and Long-Term Care"  THOMAS RICE, Yaniv Hanock, Betty E. Tanius and Stacey Wood      
 
  07/26/07     SOCIAL SECURITY
"Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability" Alan J. Auerbach and Ronald D. Lee
"Pension Reform, Ownership Structure, and Corporate Governance:  Evidence from Sweden" Mariassunta Giannetti and Luc Laeven
"Public Pension Reform: A Primer" Alain Jousten
"Social Security Reform: Fundamental Restructuring or Incremental Change?" Kathryn L. Moore
"Effects of After-Tax Pension and Social Security Benefits on Household Wealth: Evidence from a Sample of Retirees" William G. Gale, Michael Dworsky, John W. R. Phillips and Leslie Muller
 
  07/24/07     RETIREMENT
"Is Well-Being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?" David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald
"Private Pensions, the Tax Code, and the Erosion of Retirement Income Security" John C. Scott
"Using Stated Preferences Data to Analyze Preferences for Full and Partial Retirement" Arthur Van Soest, Arie Kapteyn adnd Julie M. Zissimopoulos
"Income of the Elderly Population Age 65 and Over, 2005" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"The Stretch IRA versus the CRUT: Strategies for Leaving Retirement Funds to Beneficiaries" Kevin J. Sigler
"Minority Workers Remain Confident About Retirement, Despite Lagging Preparations and False Expectations" Ruth Helman, Jack Vanderhei and Craig Copeland    
 
  06/22/07     HEALTHCARE ISSUES
"Global Perspectives on Financing Long-Term Care" Kim Dayton
"Health Insurance Coverage Among Youth and Young Adults with Work Limitations" Bonnie O'Day, David C. Stapleton and Ann E Horvath-Rose
"Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Updated Analysis of the March 2006 Current Population Survey" Paul Fronstin
"Benefit Limits for Behavioral Health Care in Private US Health Plans" Dominic Hodgkin, Constance Horgan, Deborah Garnick and Elizabeth Merrick
"Tax Expenditures and Employee Benefits: Estimates from the FY 2008 Budget" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"ERISA Pre-emption and Health Care Reform: A History Lesson" Michael S. Gordon
"Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Critiques and Proposals" Doug Jones
 
  06/18/07     INVESTMENT ISSUES
"Do the Fiduciary Duties of Pension Funds Hinder Socially Responsible Investment?" Benjamin J. Richardson
"Investment Patterns in Singapore's Central Provident Fund System" Benedict S. Koh, Olivia S. Mitchell, Toto Tanuwidjaja and Joelle Fong
"Do Higher Stock Returns Really Lower Funding Costs for DB Pension Plans? Some Simple, but Unpleasant Math" Norman Ehrentreich
"Optimal Management and Inflation Protection for Defined Contribution Pension Plans" Aihua Zhang, Christian-Olivier Ewald and Ralf Korn
"Perspectives: The Case Against Stock in Public Pension Funds" Lawrence N. Bader and Jeremy Gold
"Longevity Annuity: An Annuity for Everyone?" Jason S. Scott
 
  06/08/07     COMPANY STOCK
"Employee Share Ownership in Australia: Theory, Evidence, CurrentPractice and Regulation" Ingrid Landau, Richard Mitchell, Ann O'Connell and Ian Ramsay
"Give Me Equity or Give Me Death - The Role of Competition andCompensation in Building Silicon Valley" Richard A.Booth
"One Share, One Vote: The Empirical Evidence" Renee B. Adams
"The NUA Benefit and Optimal Investment in Company Stock in 401(K) Accounts" Mukesk Bajaj, Sumon C. Mazumdar, Vikram K.Nanda and Rahul Surana
"Better Firm Performance with Employees on the Board? Not in the Long Run" R. Oystein Strom
"Stock Options and Chief Executive Officer Compensation" Chris Armstrong, David F. Larcker and Che-lin Su
 
  06/01/07     PENSIONS
"The Retirement System in Transition: The 2007 Retirement Confidence Survey" Ruth Helman, Jack Vanderhei and Craig Copeland
"Sweeping Changes for Pension Plan Funding and Other Rules, Part 1 - Defined Benefit Plans" Stanley Baum
"Financial Preparation for Retirement: Factors Affecting Retirement Preparation Through Employer Sponsored Retirement Plans" Kabir M. Hassan
"Implicit Compensation for Career Employees in Public Defined Benefit Pension Plans: The Colorado PERA Case" Michael V. Mannino and Elizabeth S. Cooperman
"Economic Well-Being at Older Ages: Income- and Consumption-Based Poverty Measures in the HRS" Michael D. Hurd and Susann Rohwedder
 
  05/24/07     OLDER WORKERS
"'Voluntary' and 'Involuntary' Early Retirement: An International Analysis" David Dorn and Alfonso Sousa-Poza
"Aging, Labor Turnover and Firm Performance" Pekka Ilmakunnas and Mika Maliranta
"Pension Reform and Labor Market Incentives" Walter H. Fisher and Christian Keuschnigg
"Recruitment and Job Applications of Older Jobseekers from the Establishments' Perspective" Lutz Bellman and Martin Brussig
"Employee Tenure, 2006" Craig Copeland
 
  05/17/07     HEALTHCARE
"Consumer Directed Health Care" John C. Goodman
"Big-Box Benefits: The Targeting of Giants in a National Campaign to Raise Work Conditions" Orly Lovel
"The New Massachusetts Health Law: Preemption and Experimentation" Edward A.Zelinsky
"President's 'Affordable Choices' Initiative Provides Little Support for State Efforts to Expand Health Coverage" Judith Solomon
"How Does Health Insurance Affect Workers Compensation Filing?" Darius N. Lakdawalla, Robert T. Reville and Seth A. Seabury
 
  05/10/07     SOCIAL SECURITY
"The Public Trust in Private Hands: Investing Social Security through a Federal Government Corporation"  Benjamin A. Templin
"Survivor Benefits for Families of Deceased Servicemembers and Overseas Contract Workers" Virginia P Reno, Anita Cardwell and Joni Lavery
"Social Security for Migrant Workers: The EU, ILO and Treaty-Based Regimes" Barbara J. Fick and Alma C Garcia
"Social Security Reform in 2005 and Beyond" Kathryn L. Moore
"Spending and Tax Entitlements" John R. Gist
"Social Security and Government Deficits: When Should We Worry?" Neil H. Buchanan
 
  05/03/07     LIFE CYCLE ISSUES
"Behavioral Obstacles to the Annuity Market" Wei-yin Hu and Jason S. Scott
"Savings for Life: A Pathway to Financial Security for All Americans" Lisa Mensah and Pamela J. Perun
"A Comparative Analysis of Limits on Qualified Retirement Plans" Mark J. Warshawsky and Ben Weitzer
"The Political Economy of Government-Issued Longevity Bonds" Jeffrey R. Brown and Peter R. Orszag
"Perspectives: Why We Need a Pension Revolution" Keith Ambachtsheer
 
  04/26/07     SAVING
"Mismeasured Personal Saving and the Permanent Income Hypothesis" Leonard I. Nakamura and Tom Stark
"Simplification and Saving" John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
"Towards a Sensible System for Saving" Pamela Perun
"Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement?" Jonathan S. Skinner
"Financial Literacy and Retirement Preparedness: Evidence and Implications for Financial Education Programs" Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
"Invest Now, Drink Later, Spend Never: The Mental Accounting of Delayed Consumption" Eldar Shafir and Richard H. Thaler
"Savings in America: Building Opportunities for All" Suzanne Nora Johnson, Lisa Mensah and C. Eugene Steuerle
 
  04/19/07     RETIREMENT INCOME
Cracking Open the Nest Egg: IRA Withdrawals and Retirement Finance" Paul A. Smith and Andrew Bershadker
"Do Households Have Enough Retirement Wealth?" David A. Love, Paul A. Smith and Lucy C. McNair
"Measuring Dissaving Out of Retirement Wealth" David A. Love and Paul A. Smith
"Simplification and Saving" John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
"Pension Income of the Elderly and Characteristics of Their Former Employers" Craig Copeland
"Retirement Annuity and Employment-Based Pension Income, Among Individuals Age 50 and Over: 2005" Kenneth J. McDonnell
"New Evidence on Earnings and Benefit Claims Following Changes in the Retirement Earnings Test in 2000" Jae Song and Joyce Manchester
 
  04/12/07     HEALTH CARE
"The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured" Daniel Polsky, Jalpa Doshi, Jose Escarce, Willard G.Manning, Susan Paddock, Liyi Cen and Jeannette A.Rogowski
"Health Accounts and Other Welfare Accounts" J. Michael Orszg, Robert Gidehag, Dennis J. Snower and Stefan Foelster
"Retiree Health Benefit Coverage and Retirement" James Marton and Stephen Woodbury
"An Evaluation of the President's Health Insurance Proposal" Leonard E Burman, Jason Furman, Greg Leiserson and Roberton C. Williams
"Employment-Based Health Benefits: Access and Coverage, 1988-2005" Paul Fronstin
 
  04/05/07     EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
"Stock Option Plans, Management Earnings Guidance, and a Firm's Information Environment" Lynn L. Rees, Anup Srivastava and Senyo Y. Tse
"CEO Compensation and Director Networks" Ilan Guedj and Amir Barnea
"Deferred Compensation Revisited" Daniel I. Halperin and Ethan Yale
"Inside the Black Box: The Role and Composition of Compensation Peer Groups" Michael W. Faulkender and Jun Yang
"What Can We Learn from Privately Held Firms About Executive Compensation?" Rebel A. Cole and Hamid Mehran
"Executive Compensation in Socially Responsible Firms" Melissa B. Frye, Edward F. Nelling and Elizabeth Webb
   
 
  03/29/07     PENSIONS
"Uncovering and Understanding Hidden Fees in Qualified Retirement Plans, 2nd Edition" Matthew D. Hutchenson
"How to Invest Over the Life Cycle: A Review" Martin Wallmeier and Florian Zainhofer
"The Performance of US Pension Funds" Rik G.P. Frehen, Rob Bauer, Roger Otten and Hubert Lum
"Retirement Plan Participation and Asset Allocation, 2004" Craig Copeland
"A Fatal Mis-Match: Employer-Centric Benefits in a Boundaryless Workplace" Katherine V.W. Stone
"Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior" Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler
   
 
  03/15/07     HEALTH CARE
"Making Universal Health Care Work" Jonathan Barry Forman
"The Implications of Paying for Current Medicare" Thomas R. Saving
"Crowd-Out Ten Years Later: Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded Out Private Health Insurance?" Jonathan Gruber and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
"The Economic Impact of Disability in the U.S., 1997: Total and Incremental Estimates"Miriam Cisternas, Edward H. Yelin and Laura Trupin
"Workers' Compensation, Social Security Disability Insurance, and the Offset: A Fact Sheet" Virginia P.Reno, Cecili Thompson Williams and Ishita Sengupta
   
 
  03/08/07     RETIREMENT
"Worker Characteristics, Job Characteristics, and Opportunities for Phased Retirement" Robert Hutchens
"Tax-Deferred Savings and Early Retirement" Gaobo Pang
"Money in Motion: Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Retirement" Wolfram J Horneff, Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell and Michael Stamos
"How are New Retirees Doing Financially in Retirement?" Craig Copeland
"Survey Finds Federal Workers Share Poor Retirement Planning with All Workers, but Have More Savings" John A. MacDonald
 
  03/01/07     DEFINED BENEFIT PLANS
"Managing the Risk in Pension Plans and Recent Pension Reforms" Richard W. Kopcke
"Risk Shifting versus Risk Management: Investment Policy in Corporate Pension Plans" Joshua D. Rauh
"The Recent Evolution of Pension Funds in the Netherlands: The Trend to Hybrid DB-DC Plans and Beyond" Eduard Ponds and Bart Van Rield
"The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows" James M. Poterba
"Longevity Risk and Private Pensions" Pablo Antolin
"De-risking Corporate Pension Plans: Options for CFOs" Richard B. Berner, Bryan Boudreau and Michael Peskin
"Risk Allocation in Retirement Plans: A Better Solution" Donald E. Fuerst
 
  02/22/07     COMPENSATION
"A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: 1970-2000" Fatih Guvenen and Burhanettin Kuruscu
"Wages, Productivity and Aging" Benoit Dostie
"Executive Compensation, Interlocked Compensation Committees, and the 162(M) Cap on Tax Deductibility" John R. Graham and Yonghan Wu
"Backdated Options are Unreasonable Compensation" Edward A.Zelinsky
 
  02/15/07     HEALTHCARE
"Pay or Play Laws, Erisa Preemption, and Potential Lessons from Massachusetts" Amy Monahan
"Health Insurance Coverage of the Near Elderly, 1994-2005" Paul Fronstin
"The Moral Foundations of Health Insurance" Jennifer Prah Ruger
"Distributive Injustice(s) in American Health Care" Clark C. Havighurst and Barak D. Richman
"Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement" Beth Soldo, Olivia S. Mitchell and Rania Tfaily    
 
  02/08/07     SAVING
"Behavioral Finance and Retirement Plan Contributions: How Participants Behave, and Prescriptive Solutions" Jodi Dicenzo
"Perspectives: Don't Kill the Golden Goose! Saving Pension Plans" M.Barton Waringand Laurence B. Siegel
"Pensions and Risk Aversion: The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Class on Investor Behavior" Dorothy A. Brown
"Perspectives: Defined-Benefit and Defined-Contribution Plans of the Future" Don Ezra
"IRA Assets, Contributions, and Market Share" Craig Copeland
"Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans?" Scott J. Weisbenner
"Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving" Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson
 
  02/01/07     SOCIAL SECURITY
"Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement: Evidence from Switzerland" Barbara Hanel and Regina T. Riphahn
"The Adequacy of Retirement Resources Among the Soon-to-Retire, 1983-2001" EDWARD N. WOLFF
"The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security" Thomas F. Cooley
"Net Intergenerational Transfers from an Increase in Social Security Benefits" Guan Gong and Michael D. Hurd
"Social Security's Delayed Retirement Credit and the Labor Supply of Older Men" Jonathan F. Pingle
"Reactions to Social Security Retirement Reform Proposals in the United States" Fred W.
Becker
"Social Security Pensionable Ages in OECD Countries: 1949-2035" John Turner
 
  01/25/07     COMPENSATION
"The Effect of Equity Compensation on Voluntary Executive Turnover" Steven Balsam and Setiyono Miharjo
"Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation" Nittai Bergman and Dirk Jenter
"Performance Pay and Earnings: Evidence from Personnel Records" Tuomas Pekkarinen and Chris Riddell
"Pay Distribution in the Top Executive Team" Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers and Urs Peyer
"Do Directors Perform for Pay?" Renee B. Adams and Daniel Ferreira
"CEO Cash and Stock-Based Compensation Changes, Layoff Decisions, and Shareholder Value" Jeffrey T. Brookman, Saeyoung Chang and Craig G. Renniee
"Lucky Directors" Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Yaniv Grinstein and Urs Peyer
 
  01/18/07     HEALTH CARE
"The Rise of Same-Sex Partner Health Benefits in Fortune 500 Corporations, 1990-2003" You-Ta Chuang, Robin L. Church and Ron Ophir
"Early Retirement and Public Disability Insurance Applications: Exploring the Impact of Depression" Rena M. Conti, Ernst R. Berndt and Richard Frank
"Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey" Jeffrey R. Brown, Norma B. Coe and Amy Finkelstein
"Health Care Reform in the United States: Why, When and How?" Douglas Holtz-Eakin
"The 2nd Annual EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey, 2006: Early Experience With High-Deductible and Consumer-Driven Health Plans" Paul Fronstin and Sara R. Collins
 
  01/12/07     PENSION ISSUES
"The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States" David E. Bloom, David Canning, Michael Moore and Younghwan Song
"Longevity and Aggregate Savings" Eytan Sheshinski
"Efficiency and Tax Incentives: The Case for Refundable Tax Credits" Lily Batchelder, Fred T.Goldberg and Peter R. Orszag
"Are Americans Saving 'Optimally' for Retirement?" John Karl Scholz, Ananth Seshadri and Surachi Khitatrakun
"How Employment Agreements and Settlements of Employment Disputes May Affect Pension Benefits" Albert Feuer
 
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