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The Retirement Consumption Puzzle: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach

Battistin, Erich; Brugiavini, Agar; Rettore, Enrico; … - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 5, pp. 2209-26

We investigate the size of the consumption drop at retirement in Italy by exploiting pension eligibility information to … pension eligibility if individuals did not retire. We estimate a 9.8 percent drop associated to retirement. This fall is not …

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The determinants of annuitization: evidence from Sweden

Hagen, Johannes - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

characteristics. The pension can either be withdrawn as a life annuity or during a fixed number of years with a minimum of five years …This paper uses unique micro data from a Swedish occupational pension plan to study the determinants of annuitization …

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Retirement Plan Participation in the United States: Do Public Sector Employees Save More?

Chatterjee, Swarn; Zahirovic-Herbert, Velma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This study examines retirement plan participation and savings behavior for American public and private sector employees using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data set. This paper also examines the determinants of preference for a diversified portfolio within the retirement plans. The...

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How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends

Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

According to CPS data, men 65 to 69 were about six percentage points less likely to be retired in 2004 than in 1992. CPS and Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data indicate a corresponding difference of 3 percentage points between 1998 and 2004. Simulations with a structural retirement model...

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Who Is a Passive Saver under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?

Shah Goda, Gopi; Levy, Matthew R.; Flaherty Manchester, … - 2019

Defaults have been shown to have a powerful effect on retirement saving behavior yet there is limited research on who is most affected by defaults and whether this varies based on features of the choice environment. Using administrative data on employer-sponsored retirement accounts linked to...

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