Cognitive Economics Study and the Health and Retirement Study, we find strong evidence that individuals in financial occupations …

approaching their retirement, the average person approaching retirement age is not likely to suffer a life changing financial loss … been greatly exaggerated. If there is any postponement of retirement due to stock market losses, on average it will be a … background information that corrects misperceptions about pension holdings of the retirement age population. Pension coverage is …

reduce retirement wealth by one-fifth, in fact, more than what a naive allocation strategy would yield. We outline …

This paper considers the prospects for adding choice of portfolio composition to a life cycle model of retirement and … saving, while preserving the ability of the model to continue to explain the course of saving and retirement. If eventually … successful, such a modification might be used to improve understanding of retirement and saving behavior both under the current …

percent of the price increases experienced since retirement. In analyzing changes in pension benefits reported by HRS …

affected Social Security benefits and taxes. The analysis uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to ask how different … stream and faced the same benefit formula. We find that for those in the Early Boomer cohort of the Health and Retirement …

How do low-income households think about retirement? Do they think about retirement? If so, when do they think they … think about retirement, although this does not necessarily mean they are able to plan and/or save actively for retirement …

experienced by all workers in this recession, could mean that laid-off disabled workers in their pre-retirement years may never … return to work. In this paper, we use data from the 2004-2010 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to examine how the …-being of disabled individuals nearing retirement …

. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we estimate a dynamic programming … model of retirement that accounts for both saving and uncertain medical expenses. Importantly, we model the two key channels …