Research and Analysis by David A. Wise

Social Security in a Changing Environment: Findings From the Retirement Research Center at the National Bureau of Economic Research
from Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 69 No. 4 (released December 2009)
by David A. Wise and Richard G. Woodbury

Since September 2003, the Retirement Research Center at the National Bureau of Economic Research has conducted a coordinated series of investigations on Social Security in a changing environment and the potential routes to sustainable solvency. The Center supports extensive collaborative research over a multiyear horizon to achieve a more fully integrated understanding of Social Security's challenges and the changing environment in which it operates. This article is an overview of the studies completed since the Center's inception.