Essays in Public and Labor Economics.
详细信息
- 作者：Zverina ; Clara Monika.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2014
- 毕业院校：Harvard University
- Department：Public Policy.
- ISBN：9781321025156
- CBH：3627346
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：8994129
- Pages：160
文摘
This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter estimates the crowd-out effect of Social Security on private retirement saving. In a quasi-experimental research design,I analyze the effect of the 1990 federal mandate of Social Security coverage for all state and local government employees who were not covered by an equivalent state pension. Using a sample of more than 12 million employer-employee observations on earnings and contributions to retirement plans,I find that Social Security coverage induces approximately 16% of those affected who had previously saved in private retirement plans to stop contributing. For those who continue contributing,Social Security coverage crowds out about 23% of pre-reform contributions. The second chapter,joint with Jeffrey B. Liebman,explores labor market experiences of American men over the last decades. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation SIPP),matched with Social Security Administration earnings and benefit records,we follow individuals born in the 1940s-1970s by cohort and education groups. We show substantial heterogeneity across education groups； high school dropouts start holding their first job later,have more years without significant earnings,a higher number of cumulative jobs,higher job exit rates,and lower average tenure than,for example,high school graduates. Across cohorts our results illustrate that all education groups achieve significant earnings later in more recent cohorts. Particularly among the least-educated,the percentage who has not achieved significant earnings by their late 20s is increasingly rapidly across cohorts. The third chapter investigates to what extent OASDI disability and Supplemental Security Income recipients have become healthier over time in the cross-section. Using administrative benefit data,matched with self-reported health status from the Survey of Income and Program Participation,I show that particularly when measuring health by limitations in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living IADLs),male benefit recipients report fewer IADLs over time throughout the period observed from 1984 to 2004.