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Publications

Google scholar

To see my citation count, please visit my Google scholar page by clicking on the image below or the title above.  (Note: I have a relatively common name and Google sometimes misattributes papers to me.  From time to time, I prune the profile to remove these).

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Working papers

These are papers currently under review at academic journals

The efficient size and financing of government and the dead-weight costs of debt and taxes

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Published papers

These are papers published in academic journals

Mortality postponement and compression at older ages in human cohorts

Forthcoming, PLoS One

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Why changes in PBGC and FDIC premiums should not fully reflect changes in underlying risk (with some application to long-term private insurance contracts)

Forthcoming, North American Actuarial Journal

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Wait your turn: pension incentives, workplace rules and strategic labor supply among Philadelphia municipal workers

With Po-Lin Wang.  Forthcoming in the Journal of Risk and Insurance

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Generational Wealth Accounts: did public and private inter-generational transfers offset each other over the financial crisis?

With James Sefton, Ron Lee and Joze Sambt.  Published in the Economic Journal, 2022

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Six Ways Population Change Will Affect the Global Economy

With Ron Lee, Andy Mason and other members of the NTA project.  Published in the Population and Development Review, 2022

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Pooling mortality risk in Eurozone state pension liabilities: an application of a Bayesian coherent multi-population cohort-based mortality model

WIth Po-Lin Wang.  Published in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2021

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80 will be the new 70: old-age mortality postponement in the US and its likely effect on the finances of the OASI program

Published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2021

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​An analysis of period and cohort mortality shocks in international data

With Po-Lin Wang.  Published in the North American Actuarial Journal, 2021

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​Full Generational Accounts: What Do We Give to the Next Generation?

With Ron Lee, James Sefont and Jose Sambt.  Published in the Population and Development Review, 2017

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​The Theory of Optimal Stochastic Control as Applied to Insurance Underwriting Cycles

With David Eckles and Xudong Zeng.  Published in the North American Actuarial Journal, 2016

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​Is Low Fertility Really a Problem? Population Aging, Dependency, and Consumption

With Ron Lee, Andrew Mason and other members of the NTA project.  Published in Science, 2014

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Optimal Portfolio Allocation for Corporate Pension Funds

With David Miles.  Published in European Financial Management, 2013

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​The Rationale for Occupational Pensions

Published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006

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Pricing Pension Insurance

With Anthony Neuberger.  Published in Fiscal Studies, 2005

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The Pension Protection Fund

With Anthony Neuberger.  Published in Fiscal Studies, 2005

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A lifecycle analysis of defined benefit pension plans

Published in the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2003

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Estimating International Adverse Selection in Annuities

With Olivia Mitchell.  Published in the North American Actuarial Journal, 2002

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​Asset Rich and Cash Poor: Residential Housing and Retirement Provision in Singapore

With Olivia Mitchell and John Piggott.  Published in the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2002

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Policy work

These are selected policy papers.  For a full list please see my CV or Google scholar page.   Papers and legislation produced while I worked for the National Treasury in South Africa can be found on the National Treasury retirement reform webpage accessible here.

Pensions Policy: Evidence on Aspects of Savings Behaviour and Capital Markets (book)

With Anthony Neuberger.  Published by the Center for Economic Policy Research.

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​Lender of Last Resort Options for Scotland

With Angus Armstrong.  Published by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research.

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​The Economic Basis for the Regulation of Pensions

With Anthony Neuberger.  Published by the Department for Work and Pensions, UK.

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The Optimal Allocation of Risks in Employment Contracts

Published by the Department for Work and Pensions, UK.

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Household Portfolio Allocation: A Review of the Literature

Published by the ESRI, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.

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Generational Accounts for the United Kingdom

With Martin Weale and James Sefton.  Published by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London, UK.

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