This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch … analysis models to identify the mechanisms that underlie perceived financial preparedness for retirement. Findings revealed … psychological and retirement planning constructs, but also in the robustness of the path models. These findings suggest that policy …

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives ́probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …

This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This … Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an effect on retirement. The effect goes in the expected direction … their retirement probability increases in a sizable way. We also find that the procedure to impute seniority used in …

This study investigates whether many people fear an unexpectedshock in their financial situation around retirement and … distribution of expectations andrealizations, suggest that individuals around retirement are overly pes-simistic and attach more …

incentives matter for the retirement behavior of the self-employed. We also provide evidence of the self-employed not wanting to … retire as early as possible, and contrast these expectation data with realized retirement transitions. The overall picture …

the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …. We show that retirement expectations are in line with realizations and that the reform increased the labor supply for the …