This chapter examines the labor supply effects of social insurance programs. We argue that
this topic deserves separate treatment from the rest of the labor supply literature because …

This chapter surveys work in behavioral public economics, emphasizing the normative
implications of non-standard decision making for the design of welfare-improving and/or …

Public Finance is the branch of economics that studies the taxing and spending activities of
government. The term is something of a misnomer, because the fundamental issues are not …

This article tests how demographic changes affect capital markets. The life-cycle investment
hypothesis states that at an early stage an investor allocates more wealth in housing and …

The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for
analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original …

We use responses to a survey and experiment with participants in Mexico's privatized social
security system to examine how financial literacy impacts workers' choice behavior and how …

We classify social security pension systems in three dimensions: actuarial versus non-
actuarial, funded versus unfunded, and defined-benefit versus defined-contribution systems …

Gender-based taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule because it taxes at a lower rate the
more elastic labor supply of women. We study GBT in a model in which labor elasticities …

Social insurance programs have become the most important, the most expensive, and often
the most controversial aspect of government domestic policy, not only in the United States …

This paper studies an overlap** generations model with stochastic production and
incomplete markets to assess whether the introduction of an unfunded social security system …