New working papers from the Center for Retirement Research

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has released 12 new working papers:

Recruiting and Retaining High-Quality State and Local Workers: Do Pensions Matter?

Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry, and Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher

The Impact of Leakages from 401(k)s and IRAs

Alicia H. Munnell and Anthony Webb

What Do Subjective Assessments of Financial Well-Being Reflect?

Steven A. Sass, Anek Belbase, Thomas Cooperrider, and Jorge D. Ramos-Mercado

 

How Do People Decide on Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance Coverage?

Norma B. Coe and Anek Belbase

 

Overcoming Barriers to Life Insurance Coverage: A Behavioral Approach

Anek Belbase, Norma B. Coe, and April Yanyuan Wu

Improving Employees' Life and Disability Insurance Benefit Decisions: Results of an Employer Survey

Anek Belbase, Norma B. Coe, and Matthew S. Rutledge

Post-War Trends in Labor Income in the Social Security Earnings Records

Gary Burtless and Kan Zhang

Impact of the Financial Crisis on Long-Term Growth

Barry P. Bosworth

Do Retired Americans Annuitize Too Little? Trends in the Share of Annuitized Income

Barry P. Bosworth, Gary Burtless, and Mattan Alalouf

 

Sources of Increasing Differential Mortality Among the Aged by Socioeconomic Status

Barry P. Bosworth, Gary Burtless, and Kan Zhang

 

Does Social Security Continue to Favor Couples?

Nadia S. Karamcheva, April Yanyuan Wu, and Alicia H. Munnell

 

Slowed or Sidelined? The Effect of "Normal" Cognitive Decline on Job Performance Among the Elderly

Anek Belbase, Mashfiqur R. Khan, Alicia H. Munnell, and Anthony Webb