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How do Behavioral Approaches to Increase Savings Compare? Evidence from Multiple Interventions in the U.S. Army
Patterson, Richard W.; Skimmyhorn, William L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
increase retirement savings. However, gauging the relative efficacy of these approaches is challenging because the supporting … rates, active choice, and automatic enrollment) designed to increase retirement savings. Consistent with previous literature …, we find sizable effects of savings interventions on participation and cumulative contributions that increase with the …
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Plan Design and Participant Behavior in Defined Contribution Retirement Plans : Past, Present, and Future
Reuter, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
savings are smaller than the short-run effects, with some savings financed via debt. I also review efforts to expand access to … employer-based retirement savings and liquid savings, the pros and cons of target date funds as default investment options …
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Do Older Adults Accurately Forecast Their Social Security Benefits?
Seiter, Grant M.; Slavov, Sita N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How accurate are older people's expectations about their future Social Security benefits? Using panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, we compare respondents' observed Social Security claiming ages and benefits with subjective expectations provided during their 50s and early 60s. We...
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Quantifying and Explaining the Decline in Public-School Teacher Retirement Benefits
Abashidze, Nino; Clark, Robert L.; Craig, Lee A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In recent decades, many states have reduced future retirement benefits for newly hired teachers. We estimate that in 2020 the average initial monthly retirement benefit, for teachers retiring with 30 years of service, is 11.2 percent lower than that of teachers retiring in the same plan with the...
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The Size and Composition of Wealth Holdings in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands
Kapteyn, Arie - 2003
This paper analyzes retirement saving and portfolio choice in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. While these countries enjoy roughly the same standard of living, they vary widely in their institutional organization of retirement income provisions. Building on extensions of the life...
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Social security and personal saving : 1971 and beyond
Meguire, Philip - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 28 (2003) 1, pp. 115-139
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Two Decades of Social Security Claiming
Slavov, Sita N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Twenty years ago, the adjustment to monthly Social Security benefits for early or delayed claiming was, on average, roughly actuarially fair, although some subsets of individuals could gain from delay. Since then, delaying claiming has become much more attractive thanks to three factors: a more...
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Social Security Claiming Intentions : Psychological Ownership, Loss Aversion, and Information Displays
Shu, Suzanne B.; Payne, John W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
For many Americans the question of when to claim Social Security benefits is one of the most consequential financial decisions they will ever face. While acknowledging that individuals differ in terms of optimal timing for starting Social Security benefits, many economists argue that an average...
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Employer 401(k) Matches for Student Debt Repayment : Killing Two Birds with One Stone?
Horneff, Vanya; Maurer, Raimond; Mitchell, Olivia S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Almost 50 million Americans are burdened by the need to repay almost $2 trillion in student loan debt, while at the same time having to save for retirement. This article analyzes the potential impact of the 2022 SECURE 2.0 Act reform which permits employers to match contributions for student...
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Annuity Prices and Saving Behavior in the United States
Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1985
The observed reluctance of most individuals in the United States to buy individual life annuities, and the concomitant approximately flat average age-wealth profile, stand in sharp contradiction to the standard life cycle model of consumption-saving behavior. The analysis in this paper lends...
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