Replication data for: Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence from a Field Experiment
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Project Citation:
Liebman, Jeffrey B., and Luttmer, Erzo F. P. Replication data for: Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence from a Field Experiment. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114551V1
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This paper presents the results of a randomized field experiment that provided information about key Social Security features to older workers. The experiment was designed to examine whether it is possible to affect individual behavior using a relatively inexpensive informational intervention about the provisions of a public program and to explore the mechanisms underlying the behavior change. We find that our relatively mild intervention (sending an informational brochure and an invitation to a web-tutorial) increased labor force participation one year later by 4 percentage points relative to the control group mean of 74 percent. (JEL C93, D12, H55)
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C93 Field Experiments
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
H55 Social Security and Public Pensions
C93 Field Experiments
D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
H55 Social Security and Public Pensions
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