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A third of the people who receive federal disability benefits have no income other than their benefit checks. And given their serious medical conditions, their death rate is much higher than that of the general population. In such a vulnerable group, small increases in their disability checks produce big results, finds a new study funded…

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We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth.  We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4 percent per child born before January 1992.  Using administrative data on the universe of working histories, we implement a difference-in-differences design comparing women who…