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Jeffrey R. Brown
Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Publications - 201
Citations - 10613
Jeffrey R. Brown is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pension & Social security. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 200 publications receiving 9846 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeffrey R. Brown include National Bureau of Economic Research & Duke University.
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Personality and Young Adult Financial Distress
TL;DR: This paper examined how the Big Five personality traits are related to measures of young adults' financial distress using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health in the United States, finding that conscientiousness is negatively correlated, and neuroticism positively correlated with financial distress.
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Is Social Security Part of the Social Safety Net
TL;DR: This article examined the extent of redistribution in the Social Security system as a whole, focusing more specifically on how Social Security affects the poor and found that Social Security becomes less progressive as the definition of income is expanded to include more comprehensive measures of well-being.
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The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement
TL;DR: A life annuity is an insurance product that pays out a periodic amount for as long as the annuitant is alive, in exchange for a premium as discussed by the authors, and it can be seen as a form of insurance for the long-lived.