Mitigating America's demographic dilemma by pre-funding social security

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 247-266

  Kotlikoff, Laurence J ^a   Smetters, Kent ^b   Walliser, Jan ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic transition; Life cycle model; Social security

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847681484     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2005.10.020     Document Type: Article

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