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Combining Demography and economics to Study the Dependency Ratio: Using Population Projections of Mortality, Mirgration and Fertility to incorporate uncertainty into models of retirement behavior

• Primary Investigator: Hugo Benitez-Silva, Debra S. Dwyer, and Warren Sanderson were equal co-investigators and co-authors
• Project Goal: Predicting Social Security take-up and predict behavior when benefit amounts are uncertain.
• Grant: Michigan Retirement Research Consortium 2006
• Amount of Award: $100,000
• Disciplines/Fields: labor economics, demography, policy evaluation
• Dates: 2005 - 2006
• Keywords: retirement, uncertainty, Social Security Reform