. Single women fared particularly poorly on retirement savings outcomes. A range of possible theoretical links between marriage …

We analyze the impact of population aging on Japan’s household saving rate and on its public pension system and the … impact of that system on Japan’s household saving rate and obtain the following results: first, the age structure of Japan …’s population can explain the level of, and past and future trends in, its household saving rate; second, the rapid aging of Japan …

level of living standards in both working life and retirement. We use a life-cycle model of consumption and saving to … private retirement saving. In this paper, we present the first assessment of the optimality of the retirement resources of …

questions in economics that has been surprisingly difficult to answer. We use both consumption data and a new dataset containing … question. We find evidence of a positive relationship between saving rates (and wealth accumulation) and levels of permanent … income. Our findings are consistent with earlier results from Dynan, Skinner and Zeldes (2004) using consumption data from …

We use a confirmatory factor analysis to study the relation between the importance of a broad spectrum of saving … motives, such as saving for retirement, and saving behavior. Survey data show that many respondents save for retirement in …