We study a retirement savings plan with a default contribution rate of 12% of income, which is much higher than …

Does automatic enrollment into retirement saving increase household debt? We study the randomized roll-out of automatic … enrollment, each additional month increases the average automatically enrolled employee's pension savings by £32-£38, unsecured …

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how a web-based retirement saving calculator affects workers …' 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 …

prefer holding stocks, with an equity share of retirement wealth declining with age--patterns markedly different from … retirement accounts are due to participation frictions rather than non-standard preferences such as loss aversion …

such as occupational licensing may influence how individuals transition to retirement. When and how workers transition from … career jobs to full retirement may contribute to pre- and post-retirement well-being. Previous investigations of retirement … pathways focused on the patterns and outcomes of retirement transitions, yet the influence of occupational licensing on …

The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation becomes the trustee for private defined benefit plans that have defaulted …. The PBGC pays retirement benefits as provided by the plan and that are consistent with federal guidelines concerning the … information on all individuals who received a retirement benefit from the PBGC in the last 10 years, over 250,000 retirees. We …

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 … included in Social Security, have made smaller reductions in the generosity of their pension benefits in recent decades …

Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to examine the wealth accumulation (saving) behavior of the retired elderly in Europe. To summarize … period). These findings strongly suggest that the Wealth Decumulation (or Retirement Saving) Puzzle (the tendency of the … Europe. Moreover, our regression results suggest that bequest motives, generous public pension systems, and the reluctance of …

United States Air Force. Pilot compensation and the military pension are described, as are some details of the option value …