contribution. Employees can also make tax-deferred contributions to a supplemental savings account. A standard lifecycle savings …In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savings decisions of college professors … model predicts a "dollar-for-dollar" tradeoff between supplemental savings and the combined regular pension contributions …

-pension wealth holdings, (ii) defined contribution (DC) pension holdings, (iii) actual or expected defined benefit (DB) pension …

Together, pensions, social security and health insurance account for half of the wealth held by all households in the … Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth … percentiles, and even for 48 percent of wealth for those in the 90th to 95th wealth percentiles. The HRS surveys households aged …

benefits on private savings. The Retirement History Survey combines survey evidence on the wealth of couples in their early … extended life cycle model as a theory of asset accumulation and indicate a substantial substitution of social security wealth … for private wealth accumulation …

Wealth inequality in the US is high and rising, but Social Security is generally not considered in those wealth … measures. Social Security Wealth (SSW) is the present value of future benefits that an individual will receive less the present …-panel approach to empirically demonstrate those lifecycle patterns. We also show that including SSW in a comprehensive wealth measure …

a simple life cycle explanation for savings. They also raise questions about whether pensions are fundamentally a tax …This paper examines the composition and distribution of total wealth for a cohort of 51 to 61 year olds from the Health … and Retirement Study (HRS), and the role of pensions in forming retirement wealth. Pension coverage is widespread …

Retirement Survey to examine the distribution of pension wealth in relation to other private wealth. We pay particular attention … differences by sex but are still significant. We find further that pension wealth is slightly more equally distributed than is … other private wealth, however, adding pension wealth to net worth has only small effects on overall inequality, and these …

used to impose one of the world's highest marginal tax rates on wealth, but this tax was drastically reduced and ultimately … abolished between 1989 and 1997. Due to the specific design of the wealth tax, these changes provide a compelling quasi …Using administrative wealth records from Denmark, we study the effects of wealth taxes on wealth accumulation. Denmark …