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Past is Prologlue: Simulating Lifetime Social Security Earnings for the Twenty-First Century

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Past is Prologlue: Simulating Lifetime Social Security Earnings for the Twenty-First Century

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Working Paper Number: SIPP-WP-214
Past is Prologlue: Simulating Lifetime Social Security Earnings for the Twenty-First Century
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This paper projects lifetime Social Security earnings until retirement using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) matched to Social Security records of annual earnings from 1951 through 1993.

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