HKS Affiliated Authors
Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Social Policy
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The Perception of Social Security Incentives for Labor Supply and Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You'd Think. Jeffrey Liebman, October 2, 2013, Paper. "The degree to which the Social Security tax distorts labor supply depends on the extent to which individuals perceive the link between current earnings and future Social Security benefits. Some Social Security reform plans have been motivated by an assumption that workers fail to perceive this link and that increasing the salience of the link could result in significant efficiency gains. To measure the perceived linkage between labor supply and Social..." Link