| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23329 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23329 |
| How the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy May Affect Retirement Benefits and Reforms | |
| Alan J. Auerbach; Kerwin K. Charles; Courtney C. Coile; William Gale; Dana Goldman; Ronald Lee; Charles M. Lucas; Peter R. Orszag; Louise M. Sheiner; Bryan Tysinger; David N. Weil; Justin Wolfers; Rebeca Wong | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-04-17 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Older Americans have experienced dramatic gains in life expectancy in recent decades, but an emerging literature reveals that these gains are accumulating mostly to those at the top of the income distribution. We explore how growing inequality in life expectancy affects lifetime benefits from Social Security, Medicare, and other programs and how this phenomenon interacts with possible program reforms. We first project that life expectancy at age 50 for males in the two highest income quintiles will rise by 7 to 8 years between the 1930 and 1960 birth cohorts, but that the two lowest income quintiles will experience little to no increase over that time period. This divergence in life expectancy will cause the gap between average lifetime program benefits received by men in the highest and lowest quintiles to widen by $130,000 (in $2009) over this period. Finally we simulate the effect of Social Security reforms such as raising the normal retirement age and changing the benefit formula to see whether they mitigate or enhance the reduced progressivity resulting from the widening gap in life expectancy. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23329 |
| 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/581003 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alan J. Auerbach,Kerwin K. Charles,Courtney C. Coile,et al. How the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy May Affect Retirement Benefits and Reforms. 2017. |
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| w23329.pdf（737KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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