Social Security Personal-Account Participation With Government Matching
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Overview: This paper published by Boston College examines the potential impact of government matching contributions on personal-account participation in the Presidents Commission on Strengthening Social Securitys Model 3 for Social Security reform. Given the governments choice of four plan-design parameters, the magnitude of the match is determined solely by the differential return personal-account assets receive above the notional return, referred to as the ""Personal-account premium,"" akin to the equity premium.

