The Perception Of Social Security Incentives For Labor Supply And Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You'd Think

Jeffrey B. Liebman, Erzo F.P. Luttmer

NBER Working Paper No. 20562
Issued in October 2014

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This paper is the longer, working-paper version of our paper with same title, published in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 26, Jeffrey R. Brown (ed.). We thank Andrew Biggs, Jeffrey Brown, Alan Gustman, Edward Glaeser, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian, Annamaria Lusardi, and seminar participants at Brookings, Harvard, the NBER Summer Institute, the NBER Tax Policy and the Economy conference, RAND, and the Social Security Administration for helpful comments. We thank Andra Hibbert, Victoria Levin, Kate Mikels, Arman Rezaee, and Joshua Wan for superb research assistance. This research was supported by the U.S. Social Security Administration through grant #10-P-98363-1-05 to the National Bureau of Economic Research as part of the SSA Retirement Research Consortium as well as by the National Bureau of Economic Research itself. The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of SSA, any agency of the Federal Government, or the NBER. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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