A historical welfare analysis of Social Security: Whom did the program benefit?

A well-established result in the literature is that Social Security reduces steady state welfare in a standard life cycle model. However, less is known about the historical quantitative effects of the program on agents who were alive when the program was adopted. In a computational life cycle model...

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Main Authors: Peterman, W.B (Author), Sommer, K. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Ltd 2019
Subjects:
E6
N1
N4
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