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Are retirement planning tools substitutes or complements to financial capability?
Goda, Gopi Shah; Levy, Matthew; Flaherty Manchester, … - 2022
' retirement-savings decisions. In both conditions, the calculator projects workers' retirement income goal. In the treatment … condition, it also projects retirement income based on defined-contribution savings, prominently displays the gap between …
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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical … tool to encourage savings. -- savings ; commitment device ; peer pressure ; field experiment …
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Locus of control and investment in risky assets
Salamanca, Nicolás; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; … - 2016
We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when we control for economic preferences and possible confounders such as financial literacy,...
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Pension information and women's awareness
Angelici, Marta; Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; … - 2020
were interviewed to assess their knowledge about pensions and financial issues and about their own savings and personal … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …
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How will 401(k) pension plans affect retirement income?
Samwick, Andrew; Skinner, Jonathan - In: The American economic review 94 (2004) 1, pp. 329-343
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Voluntary job separations and traditional versus flexible workplace saving plans : evidence from Canada
Fang, Tony; Messacar, Derek - 2019
"traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered retirement savings plan or group RRSP, and a "hybrid … implicit contract theory suggests that traditional pensions reduce quit rates but flexible plans have little effect due to …
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Enhancing employability by responding to work motives : lessons from a field experiment among Israeli ultra-religious women
Goldfarb, Yael; Neuman, Shoshana - 2020
Low employability among specific populations (e.g., religious/traditional women, the elderly, disabled workers, immigrants) has unfavorable consequences on the: unemployed individual, society, and the state economy. The latter include: poverty, a heavy toll on welfare budgets, diminished growth,...
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Do women shy away from public speaking? : a field experiment
De Paola, Maria; Lombardo, Rosetta; Pupo, Valeria; … - 2020
Public speaking is an important skill for career prospects and for leadership positions, but many people tend to avoid it because it generates anxiety. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in an incentivized setting men and women show differences in their willingness to speak in public....
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Gender differences in competitiveness and risk-taking among children, teenagers, and college students : evidence from Jeopardy!
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - 2017
Studying competitiveness and risk-taking among Jeopardy! contestants in the US, this paper analyzes whether and how gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10-12), 310 teenagers (aged 13-17), and 299 undergraduate college students. We...
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Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality
Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2018
Preferences - concerning time, risk and social interactions - systematically shape human behavior, and contribute to differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six fundamental preferences. Our data consist of...
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