Paul A. Smith

Senior Economist
Division of Research and Statistics
Federal Reserve Board of Governors



PUBLISHED PAPERS: click titles to view  



1. Does Health Affect Portfolio Choice?

  with David Love
  September 2009
  Health Economics, forthcoming
  

2. Pension Risk and Household Saving Over the Life Cycle

  with David Love
  April 2009
  Forthcoming in Pension Fund Risk Management: Financial and Actuarial Modeling, Marco Micocci, Greg N. Gregoriou, and Giovanni Batist Masala, editors. Chapman Hall, Boca Raton, FL.
  

3. The Trajectory of Wealth in Retirement

  with David Love and Michael Palumbo
  FEDS 2008-13
  Journal of Public Economics, vol. 93, No. 1-2 (February 2009), p. 191-208
  

4. A New Look at the Wealth Adequacy of Older U.S. Households

  with David Love and Lucy McNair
  FEDS 2008-20
  Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 54, No. 4 (December 2008), p. 616-642
  

5. Neighbors Matter: Causal Community Effects and Stock Market Participation

  with Jeffrey Brown, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott Weissbenner
  Journal of Finance, vol. 63, No. 3 (June 2008), p. 1509-1531
  

6. Measuring Dissaving out of Retirement Wealth

  with David Love
  Proceedings: Ninety-Ninth Annual Conference on Taxation--2006
  National Tax Association, 2007, p. 102-113
  

7. Why Do Firms Offer Risky Defined-Benefit Pension Plans?

  with David Love and David Wilcox
  June 2007
  FEDS 2007-36
  National Tax Journal, vol. 60 (September 2007), p. 507-519
  

8. Cracking Open the Nest Egg: IRA Withdrawals and Retirement Finance

  with Andrew Bershadker
  Proceedings: Ninety-Eighth Annual Conference on Taxation--2005
  National Tax Association, 2006, p. 73-83
  

9. Social Security at 70: Principles, Issues and Alternatives

  with Julia Coronado
  National Tax Journal, vol. 58 (September 2005), p. 505-522
  

10. Taxable Capital Income and Lifetime Savings Accounts

  with Peter Brady
  Proceedings: Ninety-Seventh Annual Conference on Taxation--2004
  National Tax Association, 2005, p. 459-467
  

11. What Explains Early Withdrawals from Retirement Accounts? Evidence from a Panel of Taxpayers

  with Gene Amromin
  National Tax Journal, vol. 56 (September 2003), p. 595-612
  

12. Complexity in Retirement Savings Policy

  National Tax Journal, vol. 55 (September 2002), p. 539-553
  

13. Distributional Analysis: A Longer Run Perspective

  with James Cilke, Julie-Anne Cronin, Janet McCubbin, and James Nunns
  Proceedings: Ninety-Third Annual Conference on Taxation--2000
  National Tax Association, 2001, p. 248-258
  

14. Developing a Panel Model for Tax Analysis

  with James Cilke, Julie-Anne Cronin, Matthew Eichner, Janet McCubbin, and James Nunns
  Proceedings: Ninety-Second Annual Conference on Taxation--1999
  National Tax Association, 2000, p. 419-426
  

15. The Changing Economic Status of U.S. Disabled Women: Trends and Their Determinants, 1982-1991

  with Robert Haveman, Karen Holden, Barbara Wolfe and Kathryn Wilson
  David Salkever, ed., Studies in Disability. : JAI Press, 2000
  

16. The Changing Economic Status of U.S. Disabled Men: Trends and Their Determinants, 1982-1991

  with Robert Haveman, Karen Holden, Barbara Wolfe and Kathryn Wilson
  Empirical Economics, vol. 24 (1999), p. 571-98