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Pension Reform And Retirement Incentives: Evidence From Austria, Roman Raab
Pension Reform And Retirement Incentives: Evidence From Austria, Roman Raab
Economics Dissertations
The scope of this dissertation is to investigate the impact of pension reform on the financial incentives to retire for private sector workers in Austria. How do financial incentives embedded in the Austrian pension system affect individual retirement behavior? Was pension reform effective in changing these financial incentives in order to affect retirement behavior? How would future reform scenarios impact retirement behavior? Micro-estimating the impact of financial incentive measures on the probability of retirement shows that the behavioral response to financial incentives in Austria is relatively large in international comparison. Simulations demonstrate that pension reform was ineffective in providing incentives …
State Children's Health Insurance Program: Participation Decision And Labor Supply Effects, Kyoungwoo Lee
State Children's Health Insurance Program: Participation Decision And Labor Supply Effects, Kyoungwoo Lee
Economics Dissertations
Our study estimates the crowd-out of private health insurance following SCHIP expansions for children. We use panel data from the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). We use multivariate regression models to the crowd-out of private health insurance. This difference-in-differences approach controls for other factors that affect both the control group and treatment group, and measures the extent of crowd-out private coverage in the treatment group relative to the control group. We find that nearly 26 percent of the transitions from private coverage into SCHIP coverage were made by children who would have had private …