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China's distinctive demographic landscape, early retirement policies, and deeply ingrained gender norms provide a … unique backdrop for investigating gender disparities in retirement and subjective well-being. Drawing upon data from the … retirement rates, surging by 19 percentage points for males and 13 percentage points for females in proximity to this age …
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employer-based retirement savings and liquid savings, the pros and cons of target date funds as default investment options …I review the academic literature on defined contribution retirement plan design and participant behavior. While … savings are smaller than the short-run effects, with some savings financed via debt. I also review efforts to expand access to …
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, older ages at retirement, and more years of service are associated with a greater probability of choosing a J&S annuity. We …
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to ADRD in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We replicate existing relationships between genetic factors and …
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This paper investigates the effect of state retirement plan mandates on the supply of employer-sponsored retirement … payroll deductions that are deposited into individual retirement accounts (IRAs) established for workers by the state. In this …
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We develop and estimate a life-cycle consumption savings model in which observed genetic variation is allowed to affect … return on risky investments. The model also incorporates endogenous retirement and a realistic social security system … of an aging population (extending the age of retirement or cutting social security benefits) have similar magnitudes and …
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Several states have recently attempted to boost retirement saving by adopting "auto-IRA" policies that require … employers not currently offering an employer-sponsored retirement plan (ESRP) to either (1) establish an ESRP or (2) enroll … employees in state-facilitated Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). We identify the effect of these state retirement plan …
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This paper investigates gender gaps in long-term career expectations and outcomes of PhD candidates in economics. For this purpose, we match rich survey data on PhD candidates (from the 2008-2010 job market cohorts) to public data on job histories and publication records through 2022. We...
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Historically, a large majority of the newly elected members of the National Academy of Science (NAS) and the American Academy of Arts and Science (AAAS) were men. Within the past two decades, however, that situation has changed, and in the last 3 years women made up about 40 percent of the new...
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We analyze more than 70 million scientific articles to characterize the gender dynamics of commercializing science. The double-digit gender gap we report is explained neither by the quality of the science nor its ex-ante commercial potential, and is widest among papers with female last authors...
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