New working papers from the Center for Retirement Research

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has released seven new working papers:

• Why Aren't More Families Buying Life Insurance? by Matthew S. Chambers, Don E. Schlagenhauf, and Eric R. Young
  
• Changes in Firm Pension Policy: Trends Away From Traditional Defined Benefit Plans by Kandice A. Kapinos
  
• Interdependent Durations in Joint Retirement by Bo Honoré and Áureo de Paula
  
• Health and Retirement Effects in a Collective Consumption Model of Elderly Households by Arthur Lewbel and Shannon Seitz
  
• Age Differences in Job Displacement, Job Search, and Reemployment by Richard W. Johnson and Corina Mommaerts
  
• The Earnings and Social Security Contributions of Documented and Undocumented Mexican Immigrants by Gary Burtless and Audrey Singer
  
• How Important are Intergenerational Transfers for Baby Boomers? by Alicia H. Munnell, Anthony Webb, Zhenya Karamcheva, and Andrew Eschtruth