Public Sector - Publications - Faculty & Research

1977
Working Paper

Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance

A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details

Keywords: Social Insurance; Econometric Models; Public Sector; Government Administration; Policy; Human Needs; Social Issues; Risk and Uncertainty

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1977
Other Unpublished Work

Indexing Social Security: An Analysis of the Issues

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Insurance; Public Sector

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1976
Report

Financial Crisis in the Social Security System

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insurance; Public Sector

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1974
Report

An Actuarial Audit of the Social Security System

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Roman L. Weil

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Public Sector; Insurance

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Article

On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout

By: Louis Kaplow and Scott Duke Kominers

Prominent theory research on voting analyzes a variety of models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many... View Details