| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w10466 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 10466 |
| Social Security and the Evolution of Elderly Poverty | |
| Gary V. Engelhardt; Jonathan Gruber | |
| 发表日期 | 2004-05-10 |
| 出版年 | 2004 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We use data from the March 1968-2001 Current Population Surveys to document the evolution of elderly poverty over this time period, and to assess the causal role of the Social Security program in reducing poverty rates. We develop an instrumental variable approach that relies on the large increase in benefits for birth cohorts from 1885 through 1916, and the subsequent decline and flattening of real benefits growth due to the Social Securing 'notch', to estimate of Social Security on elderly poverty. Our findings suggest that over all elderly families the elasticity of poverty to benefits is roughly unitary. This suggests that reductions in Social Security benefits would significantly alter the poverty of the elderly. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Public Economics ; Taxation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w10466 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568095 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gary V. Engelhardt,Jonathan Gruber. Social Security and the Evolution of Elderly Poverty. 2004. |
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| w10466.pdf（323KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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