Media reports predicted that the stock market decline in October 2008 would cause changes in retirement intentions, due … to declines in retirement assets. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the relationship … between stock market performance and retirement intentions during 1998-2008, a period that includes the recent crisis. While …

Media reports predicted that the stock market decline in October 2008 would cause changes in retirement intentions, due … to declines in retirement assets. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the relationship … between stock market performance and retirement intentions during 1998-2008, a period that includes the recent crisis. While …

equity markets and retirement is mixed. We use panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the … relationship between stock market performance and plans for retirement during 1998-2008, a period that includes the recent … equity markets influence changes in retirement plans over the period as a whole. We conclude that the higher probabilities of …

relationship between recent stock returns and the annuitization of retirement savings. After controlling for several standard …