Means testing and Social Security in the United States
Abstract This paper uses a heterogeneous‐agent overlapping‐generations model to examine the fiscal and distributional consequences of introducing a means test in US Social Security. I find that a means test, that is, conditioning benefit payments on a household's earnings or assets, leads to a...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2024-03-01
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| Series: | International Studies of Economics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ise3.67 |