How Teachers Respond to Pension System Incentives: New Estimates and Policy Applications

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael
• 署名单位: University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/686263
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1075-1104
• 关键词: exit behavior; retirement; MODEL; schools

摘要

Rising costs of public employee pension plans have caused fiscal stress in many cities and states and have led to calls for reform. To assess the economic consequences of plan changes, it is important to have reliable statistical models of employee retirement behavior. The authors estimate a structural model of teacher retirement using Missouri administrative panel data. A Stock-Wise option value model provides a good fit to the data and predicts well out-of-sample on the effects of pension enhancements during the 1990s. The structural model is used to simulate the effect of alternatives to the current defined benefit plan.