When it comes to estimating the benefits of long-term savings, many people rely on their intuition. Focusing on the … domain of retirement savings, we use a randomized experiment to explore people's intuition about how money accumulates over … time. We ask half of our sample to estimate future consumption given savings (the forward perspective). The other half of …

savings. The third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, SHARELIFE, collects information on the … show the ability of the retrospective survey to generate cross-country differences in wages and pensions which are in line …

I study the relationship between household saving and pensions, and estimate both the displacement effect of pensions …, the consumption function depends on expected pension benefits and pension risk. I estimate the savings equation implied by …. Exploiting exogenous variation due to pension fund performance, I show that savings decrease significantly with expected pension …