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List of works by Laurence Kotlikoff

A Strategic Altruism Model In Which Ricardian Equivalence Does Not Hold

scientific article published in September 1988

Americans' Dependency on Social Security

scientific article published in November 2006

An Examination of Empirical Tests of Social Security and Savings

scientific article published in August 1981

An International Comparison of Generational Accounts

scientific article published in March 1998

Annuity Markets, Savings, and the Capital Stock

Assessing the Economic Gains from Telecom Competition

scientific article published in May 2004

Banks as Potentially Crooked Secret-Keepers

Can People Compute? An Experimental Test of the Life Cycle Consumption Model

Changes in the Age Distribution of Income in the United States, 1968-1984

Comparing Average and Marginal Tax Rates Under the FairTax and the Current System of Federal Taxation

Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning

Corporate Taxation and the Efficiency Gains of the 1986 Tax Reform Act

scientific article published in October 1989

Demographics, Fiscal Policy, and U.S. Saving in the 1980s and Beyond

scientific article published in October 1989

Did the 2017 Tax Reform Discriminate against Blue State Voters?

scientific article published in April 2019

Does It Pay to Work?

Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? -- Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving

scientific article published in September 2006

Does Participating in a 401(k) Raise Your Lifetime Taxes?

scientific article published in June 2001

Does the Consumption of Different Age Groups Move Together? A New Nonparametric Test of Intergenerational Altruism

Does the Harberger Model Greatly Understate the Excess Burden of the Corporate Tax? - Another Model Says Yes

scientific article published in October 1988

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

scientific article published in December 2008

Economic Exchange and Support Within U.S. Families

Empirical Tests of Alternative Models of International Growth

scientific article published in August 1984

Employee Retirement and a Firm's Pension Plan

scientific article published in July 1987

Estimating The Age-Productivity Profile Using Lifetime Earnings

Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma

scientific article published in April 2001

From Deficit Delusion to the Fiscal Balance Rule: Looking For an Economically Meaningful Way to Assess Fiscal Policy

scholarly article published February 1989

Game Over: Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy

scientific article published in March 2012

Generational Accounting in General Equilibrium

scientific article published in April 1995

Generational Accounts - A Meaningful Alternative to Deficit Accounting

scientific article published in January 1991

Generational Policy

scientific article published in March 2001

Generational Risk - Is It a Big Deal?: Simulating an 80-Period OLG Model with Aggregate Shocks

scientific article published in June 2013

Health Expenditures and Precautionary Savings

scientific article published in August 1986

Health, Children, and Elderly Living Arrangements: A Multiperiod-Multinomial Probit Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Autocorrelated Errors

scientific article published in April 1990

How Much Care Do the Aged Receive from Their Children? A Bimodal Picture of Contact and Assistance

How Rational Is the Purchase of Life Insurance?

scientific article published in August 1989

How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life Cycle Location Choices

Intergenerational Transfers and Savings

scientific article published in May 1987

Intertemporal State Budgeting

Investment versus Savings Incentives: The Size of the Bang for the Buck and the Potential for Self-Financing Business Tax Cuts

scientific article published in November 1982

Is Uncle Sam Inducing the Elderly to Retire?

scientific article published in October 2016

Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked? Direct Tests Using Micro Data

scientific article published in July 1989

Labor Compensation and the Structure of Private Pension Plans: Evidence for Contractual Versus Spot Labor Markets

scientific article published in March 1984

Laws as Assets: A Possible Solution to the Time Consistency Problem

scholarly article published November 1986

Life Insurance Inadequacy - Evidence From a Sample of Older Widows

scientific article published in July 1991

Life Insurance of the Elderly: Adequacy and Determinants

scientific article published in October 1985

Life-Cycle Saving, Limits on Contributions to DC Pension Plans, and Lifetime Tax Benefits

Looking for the News in the Noise - Additional Stochastic Implications of Optimal Consumption Choice

scientific article published in November 1984

Making Bequests Without Spoiling Children: Bequests as an Implicit Optimal Tax Structure and the Possibility That Altruistic Bequests are not Equaliz

scientific article published in October 1988

Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win Win

scientific article published in April 2019

Marginal Net Taxation of Americans’ Labor Supply

scientific article published in May 2020

Medicare from the Perspective of Generational Accounting

scientific article published in June 1998

National Savings, Economic Welfare, and the Structure of Taxation

scientific article published in August 1981

On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language

scientific article published in June 2006

Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds

scientific article published in April 2008

Opting Out of Social Security and Adverse Selection

Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence

scientific article published in December 1995

Pareto-Improving Carbon-Risk Taxation

scientific article published in April 2020

Pension Backloading, Wage Taxes, and Work Disincentives

Privatization of Social Security: How It Works and Why It Matters

scientific article published in October 1995

Pubic Debt and U.S. Saving: A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis

scientific article published in June 1985

Risk-Sharing, Altruism, and the Factor Structure of Consumption

scientific article published in September 1991

Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement

scientific article published in February 2015

Russia’s Fiscal Gap

Simulating Alternative Social Security Responses to the Demographic Transition

scientific article published in March 1984

Simulating Business Cash Flow Taxation: An Illustration Based on the “Better Way” Corporate Tax Reform

scientific article published in August 2017

Simulating Russia’s and Other Large Economies’ Challenging and Interconnected Transitions

scientific article published in June 2015

Simulating U.S. Tax Reform

Simulating the Dynamic Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Effects of the FairTax

Simulating the Elimination of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax

scientific article published in December 2013

Simulating the Privatization of Social Security in General Equilibrium

scientific article published in September 1996

Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequity via Bequests

scientific article published in June 1999

Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery

scientific article published in December 2012

Social Security and Medicare Policy From the Perspective of Generational Accounting

scientific article published in November 1991

Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans: How Bad Can It Get?

scientific article published in September 1999

Social Security: A Financial Appraisal Across and Within Generations

scientific article published in April 1986

Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity

Some Inefficiency Implication of Generational Politics and Exchange

Tax Aspects of Policy Towards Aging Populations: Canada and the United States

scientific article published in July 1990

Taxation and Savings - A Neoclassical Perspective

Taxing Sales Under the FairTax: What Rate Works?

scientific article published in December 2006

The A-K Model: It's Past, Present, and Future

scientific article published in August 1998

The Adequacy of Life Insurance: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey

scientific article published in October 1999

The Adequacy of Savings

scientific article published in February 1981

The Annuitization of Americans' Resources: A Cohort Analysis

scientific article published in April 1995

The Big Con – Reassessing the "Great" Recession and its "Fix"

scientific article published in November 2018

The Coming Generational Storm

Book by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns

The Contribution of Intergenerational Transfers to Total Wealth: A Reply

scientific article published in February 1986

The Developed World's Demographic Transition - The Roles of Capital Flows, Immigration, and Policy

article published in 2003

The Dynamics of Living Arrangements of the Elderly

scientific article published in December 1988

The Dynamics of an Aging Population: The Case of Four OECD Countries

scientific article published in February 1989

The Economic Effects of Government Expenditures

scientific article published in August 1982

The Effects of Income and Wealth on Time and Money Transfers between Parents and Children

scientific article published in April 1996

The Efficiency Gains from Dynamic Tax Reform

scientific article published in December 1981

The Efficiency Gains from Social Security Benefit - Tax Linkage

scientific article published in June 1985

The Equity of Social Services Provided to Children and Senior Citizens

scientific article published in March 1993

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

scientific article published in January 2007

The Family as an Incomplete Annuities Market

The Impact of Annuity Insurance on Savings and Inequality

The Impact on Consumption and Saving of Current and Future Fiscal Policies

The Incentive Effects of Private Pension Plans

scientific article published in December 1984

The Incidence and Efficiency Costs of Corporate Taxation when Corporate and Noncorporate Firms Produce the Same Good

The Increasing Annuitization of the Elderly- Estimates and Implications for Intergenerational Tranfers, Inequality, and National Saving

The International Economics of Transitional Growth: The Case of the United States

scientific article published in September 1981

The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilities: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

scientific article published in October 2001

The Provision of Time to the Elderly by Their Children

scientific article published in May 1990

The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World's Demographic Transition

scientific article published in May 2004

The Role of Intergenerational Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation

The True Cost of Social Security

scientific article published in October 2008

To Roth or Not? -- That is the Question

scientific article published in January 2008

U.S. Demographics and Saving: Predictions of Three Saving Models

scientific article published in July 1990

U.S. Inequality, Fiscal Progressivity, and Work Disincentives: An Intragenerational Accounting

scientific article published in March 2016

Understanding the Postwar Decline in U.S. Saving: A Cohort Analysis

Valuing Government Obligations When Markets are Incomplete

scientific article published in December 2017

What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model without Capital

scientific article published in July 2010

Who's Going Broke? Comparing Growth in Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries

Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?

scientific article published in December 2008

Why Don't the Elderly Live With Their Children? A New Look

scientific article published in October 1988

Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China

scientific article published in October 2005

Will the Paris Accord Accelerate Climate Change?

scientific article published in October 2016