Retirement Choices by State and Local Public Sector Employees: The Role of Eligibility and Financial Incentives

Leslie E. Papke

NBER Working Paper No. 25436
Issued in January 2019

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I thank Sita Slavov and conference participants at the NBER Conference on Incentives and Limitations of Employment Policies on Retirement Transitions for useful comments. I also thank seminar participants at Michigan State University, the Michigan Retirement Research Center and staff for their support of this project, as well as the staff at the Michigan Center for the Demography of Aging who have enabled my access to restricted data. Bryce S. Vanderberg provided excellent research assistance. All errors are my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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