effects of mandated Traditional (tax-deferred) or Roth (taxprepaid) retirement policies in a controlled laboratory setting … receive exogenous incomes during "working" periods, followed by no-income "retirement" periods. In each period, subjects … determine retirement savings and tax payments. Flat income and tax-rate profiles facilitate the analysis of behavioral factors …

administrative wealth reports with variation in the timing of sudden, unexpected parental deaths. We show that after inheritance net …

retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal … decisions. Our results suggested that couples synchronize retirement and that they respond similarly to their own … examine how social security financial incentives and personal characteristics affects one's own and spouses' retirement …

Retirement wealth is often viewed as a great equalizer, offsetting the inequality in standard household net worth. One … Board's Survey of Consumer Finances, I find that retirement wealth (the sum of pension and Social Security wealth) had a … modestly between 1983 and 2001, the inequality of augmented wealth (the sum of retirement wealth and net worth) surged from …

percent replacement rates, respectively. Moreover, retirement wealth is very unevenly distributed. Whites and married couples … resources (both private and public) to maintain a decent standard of living in retirement. Typically, the adequacy of projected … retirement income is judged in relation to some absolute standard (for example, the poverty threshold) and preretirement income …