ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS), we … work longer. When we explore the reasons for delayed retirement among older women, factors include education, more marital … with retirement planning include having more education and greater financial literacy. Those who report excessive amounts …

Health and Retirement Study (HRS), for 60 percent of total wealth of HRS households who are in the 45th to 55th wealth …

workers lost a substantial portion of their retirement saving. The financial sector implosion produced an economic crisis for … retirement, and annuitization decisions. We do so with a realistically calibrated lifecycle framework allowing for time …-varying investment opportunities and countercyclical risky labor income dynamics. We show that households near retirement will reduce …

retirement security. The monographs reviewed ask how funded pension plans might be restructured to better meet the policy … growth and demographic aging. Questions remain regarding how retirement policy can better integrate intergenerational …

workers lost a substantial portion of their retirement saving. The financial sector implosion produced an economic crisis for … retirement, and annuitization decisions. We do so with a realistically calibrated lifecycle framework allowing for time …-varying investment opportunities and countercyclical risky labor income dynamics. We show that households near retirement will reduce …

workers lost a substantial portion of their retirement saving. The financial sector implosion produced an economic crisis for … retirement, and annuitization decisions. We do so with a realistically calibrated lifecycle framework allowing for time …-varying investment opportunities and countercyclical risky labor income dynamics. We show that households near retirement will reduce …

benefit for an immediate lump-sum payment, using an experimental module in the 2004 Health and Retirement Study. Our first …

This paper highlights unanswered research questions in the economics of retirement, and shows how these issues can be … addressed using the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Unique features of the survey are described including administrative … are indicators of retirement plans, health status, family structure, income, wealth and employer policies affecting job …

variables including wealth, the timing of retirement, investments in health, and decisions about end-of-life care …