The financial future of Social Security's trust funds is an important policy topic with significant
implications for members of the public who pay taxes and expect to receive benefits in …

The primary objective of perpetual endowment funds and long-lived trust funds is to
generate spendable cash. Ideally, these cash disbursements would be stable from one year …

This study explores how workers respond to reports about Social Security's finances, using
an online experiment in which participants are shown identical articles with different …

In this paper, we investigate the behavioral and statistical characteristics of cash flows for
stable value funds provided by numerous US employee benefit plans. We analyze …

Social Security traditionally has operated on a pay-asyou-go basis—that is, current taxes
pay for current benefits. The 1977 and 1983 Amendments to the Social Security Act provided …

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We investigate the determinants of trust in one's pension fund and the effect of trust on
having additional pension savings. Our identification is based on using exogenous shocks …

With over $1 trillion in assets, the US Social Security trust fund is the largest pension reserve
in the world, and potentially a model for other developed countries facing future financing …

With trust fund assets growing from just under $46 billion at the end of September 1986 to
over $730 billion at the end of September 1998, interest earnings from the investment of trust …

We investigate the determinants of trust in one's pension fund and the effect of trust on the
decision to ensure additional pension savings. Our analysis is based on exogenous shocks …