This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement …

increase in saving - at least in 2009 - did not materialize through an increase in contributions to retirement and savings …

supplementary receipt of the private device significantly increased the wife's savings in couples with a low level of spousal trust … more effective hiding of the wife's savings amounts, facilitated through the private saving device. From a policy …

increase retirement savings. However, gauging the relative efficacy of these approaches is challenging because the supporting … rates, active choice, and automatic enrollment) designed to increase retirement savings. Consistent with previous literature …, we find sizable effects of savings interventions on participation and cumulative contributions that increase with the …

determine retirement savings and tax payments. Flat income and tax-rate profiles facilitate the analysis of behavioral factors … like present-period tax avoidance, while optimal consumption and after-tax savings are identical for both treatments. Our … results show that observed savings are suboptimal in both treatments and are influenced by gender, patience, and risk aversion …

that these broadly held resources substitute for savings, measures of wealth inequality that do not account for DB pensions …Defined benefit (DB) pensions and Social Security are two important resources for financing retirement in the United …