We examine the self-control problems of U.S households and their effects on households' retirement preparedness based on the Behavioral Life-Cycle Hypothesis. Using the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances dataset, the level of retirement adequacy was estimated with income replacement ratio (IRR),...

In 2013, 18% of full-time workers aged 35 to 60 who were household heads expected to never retire. We found that factors related to the likelihood of expecting to never retire were more related to a failure to plan rather than a preference for working indefinitely. Most workers stating that they...

1. The typical treatment of inflation in retirement planning textbooks is too complex and is not reasonable in terms of the amount to contribute the first year being dependent on the inflation rate assumption.2. Economists typically put all amounts and interest rates in inflation-adjusted terms,...

Previous retirement adequacy studies have ignored expected retirement income stages. Ignoring retirement income stages results in biased estimations of retirement adequacy. This study analyzes retirement income stage theoretically and then empirically. Based on the 1995 to 2007 Survey of...