Topic: Briefs
Why Do More Older Men Work in Some States?
Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, and Natalia A. Zhivan
The Miracle of Funding by State and Local Pension Plans
Alicia H. Munnell, Kelly Haverstick, Steven A. Sass, and Jean-Pierre Aubry
Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2008 Update in Perspective
Alicia H. Munnell
Why Does Funding Status Vary Among State and Local Plans?
Alicia H. Munnell, Kelly Haverstick, and Jean-Pierre Aubry
When Should Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits?
Steven A. Sass, Wei Sun, and Anthony Webb
What Do We Know About the Universe of State and Local Plans
Alicia H. Munnell, Kelly Haverstick, Mauricio Soto, and Jean-Pierre Aubry
Health Care Costs Drive Up the National Retirement Risk Index
Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, Anthony Webb, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Dan Muldoon
An "Elastic" Earliest Eligibility Age for Social Security
Natalia Zhivan, Steven A. Sass, Margarita Sapozhnikov, and Kelly Haverstick
Why Have Some States Introduced Defined Contribution Plans?
Alicia H. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass, Kelly Haverstick, Mauricio Soto, and Gregory Wiles
Pension Wealth and Income: 1992, 1998, and 2004
Olga Sorokina, Anthony Webb, and Dan Muldoon
Why Have Defined Benefit Plans Survived in the Public Sector?
Alicia H. Munnell, Kelly Haverstick, and Mauricio Soto
Do Financial Literacy and Mistrust Affect 401(k) Participation?
Julie R. Agnew, Stephen P. Utkus, and Jean A. Young
State and Local Pensions Are Different From Private Plans
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
A Gradual Exit May Not Make for a Happier Retirement
Esteban Calvo, Kelly Haverstick, and Steven A. Sass
Working Wives Reduce Social Security Replacement Rates
Alicia H. Munnell, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, and Mauricio Soto
Medicare Costs and Retirement Security
Alicia H. Munnell
The Role of Private Insurance in Financing Long-Term Care
Howard Gleckman
Is There Really a Retirement Savings Crisis? An NRRI Analysis
Alicia H. Munnell, Anthony Webb, and Francesca Golub-Sass
Should Public Plans Engage in Social Investing?
Alicia H. Munnell
An Annuity People Might Actually Buy
Anthony Webb, Guan Gong, and Wei Sun
Why Are Widows So Poor?
Nadia Karamcheva and Alicia H. Munnell
Financing Long-Term Care: Lessons From Abroad
Howard Gleckman
Older Workers: Lessons From Japan
John B. Williamson and Masa Higo
Do People Plan to Tap Their Home Equity in Retirement?
Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, and Jean-Pierre Aubry
Employers Lukewarm About Retaining Older Workers
Andrew D. Eschtruth, Steven A. Sass, and Jean-Pierre Aubry
Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2007 Report in Perspective
Alicia H. Munnell
Sharing Risk: The Netherlands' New Approach to Pensions
Eduard H.M. Ponds and Bart van Riel
Medicaid and Long-Term Care: How Will Rising Costs Affect Services for an Aging Population?
Howard Gleckman
Will People Be Healthy Enough to Work Longer?
Alicia H. Munnell and Jerilyn Libby
The Recent Trend Towards Later Retirement
Leora Friedberg
Phased Retirement: Problems and Prospects
Robert Hutchens
What Happens to Health Benefits After Retirement?
Richard W. Johnson
Households 'At Risk': A Closer Look at the Bottom Third
Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, Pamela Perun, and Anthony Webb
What Moves the National Retirement Risk Index? A Look Back and an Update
Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Anthony Webb
Employer Survey: 1 of 4 Boomers Won't Retire Because They Can't
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven A. Sass, and Jean-Pierre Aubry
What Happens to Household Portfolios After Retirement?
Coutney Coile and Kevin Milligan
Job Tenure and the Spread of 401(k)s
Alicia H. Munnell, Kelly Haverstick, and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher
How Do Age Discrimination Laws Affect Older Workers
Joanna N. Lahey
Will Reverse Mortgages Rescue the Baby Boomers?
Andrew Eschtruth, Wei Sun, and Anthony Webb
Do Older Workers Face Greater Risk of Displacement?
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven Sass, Mauricio Soto, and Natalia Zhivan
Investment Returns: Defined Benefit vs. 401(k)
Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, Jerilyn Libby, and John Prinzivalli
Estimating Pension Coverage Using Different Data Sets
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher
An Update on Private Pensions
Alicia H. Munnell and Pamela Perun
Will We Have to Work Forever?
Alicia H. Munnell, Marric Buessing, Mauricio Soto, and Steven Sass
Employer Attitudes Toward Older Workers: Survey Results
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven A. Sass and Mauricio Soto
How to Improve Long-Term Immigration Projections
Neil Howe and Richard Jackson
A New National Retirement Risk Index
Alicia H. Munnell, Anthony Webb and Luke Delorme
Learning by Teaching
Steven A. Sass, Francis Vitagliano, and Luke Delorme
Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2006 Update in Perspective
Alicia H. Munnell
How Secure Are Retirement Nest Eggs?
Richard W. Johnson, Gordon B.T.Mermin, and Cori Uccello
Reforming the Canadian Retirement System: Investing Social Security Assets in Equities
Steven A. Sass
Why are Healthy Employers Freezing their Pensions?
Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, Mauricio Soto, and Francis Vitagliano
401(k) Plans Are Still Coming Up Short
Alicia H. Munnell and Annika Sundén
Does Working Longer Make People Healthier and Happier?
Esteban Calvo
The State of Private Pensions: Current 5500 Data
Marric Buessing and Mauricio Soto
Empirical Regularity Suggests Retirement Risks
Luke Delorme, Alicia H. Munnell and Anthony Webb
The House and Living Standards in Retirement
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Could Tax Reform Kill 401(k) Plans?
Alicia H.Munnell
How Do Pensions Affect Replacement Rates?
Alicia H.Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Sorting Out Social Security Replacement Rates
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
How Much Pre-Retirement Income Does Social Security Replace?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Why Do Women Claim Social Security Benefits So Early?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
What Makes Older Women Work?
Alicia H. Munnell and Natalia Jivan
How Much Are Workers Saving?
Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Andrew Varani
Do Older Workers Face Discrimination?
Joanna N. Lahey
Mandatory Social Security Coverage of State and Local Workers: A Perennial Hot Button
Alicia H. Munnell
Are the Social Security Trust Funds Meaningful?
Alicia H. Munnell
National Saving and Social Security Reform
Andrew Eschtruth and Robert Triest
What is Progressive Price Indexing?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Is Private Long-Term Care Insurance the Answer?
Richard W. Johnson and Cori E. Uccello
Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2005 Update and a Look Back
Alicia H. Munnell
Will Baby Boomers Drown in Debt?
Mauricio Soto
What Makes Retirees Happy?
Keith A. Bender and Natalia A. Jivan
Yikes! How to Think About Risk?
Alicia H. Munnell, Steven A. Sass, and Mauricio Soto
401(k) Plans and Women: A "Good News/Bad News" Story
Alicia H. Munnell and Steven A. Sass
What Does Price Indexing Mean for Social Security Benefits?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Improving 401(k) Investment Performance
William G. Gale, J. Mark Iwry, Alicia H. Munnell, and Richard H. Thaler
A Bird's Eye View of the Social Security Debate
Alicia H. Munnell
Assessing The Notional Defined Contribution Model
John B. Williamson
Will Health Care Costs Erode Retirement Security?
Richard W. Johnson and Rudolph G. Penner
Reforming the Japanese Retirement Income System: A Special Case?
Bernard H. Casey
Changing 401(k) Defaults on Cashing Out: Another Step in the Right Direction
Alicia H. Munnell and James G. Lee
Why Is Life Expectancy So Low in the United States?
Alicia H. Munnell, Robert E. Hatch, and James G. Lee
An Update on Pension Data
Alicia H. Munnell, James G. Lee and Kevin B. Meme
How Closely Do Spouses Coordinate Their Retirement Decisions?
Richard W. Johnson
Should We Raise Social Security's Earliest Eligibility Age?
Alicia H. Munnell, Kevin B. Meme, Natalia A. Jivan, and Kevin E. Cahill
Saving for Retirement: Taxes Matter
James M. Poterba
Population Aging: It's Not Just the Baby Boom
Alicia H. Munnell
Why Are So Many Older Women Poor?
Alicia H. Munnell
Basic Investment Theory Explained
Kevin E. Cahill and Sheila Campbell
Can Faster Growth Save Social Security?
Rudolph G. Penner
How Do Cash Balance Plans Affect the Pension Landscape?
Kevin E. Cahill and Mauricio Soto
How Has the Shift to 401(k)s Affected the Retirement Age?
Alicia H. Munnell, Kevin E. Cahill, and Natalia A. Jivan
Suspending the Employer 401(k) Match
Alicia H. Munnell and Annika Sundén
Pension Accounting & Personal Saving
Annamaria Lusardi, Jonathan Skinner, and Steven Venti
A Primer on IRAs
Alicia H. Munnell
The Declining Role of Social Security
Alicia H. Munnell
Is Working Longer the Answer for an Aging Workforce?
Gary Burtless and Joseph F. Quinn
How Will the Rise in 401(k) Plans Affect Bequests?
Alicia H. Munnell, Annika Sundén, Mauricio Soto, and Catherine Taylor
Are Older Workers Responding to the Bear Market?
Andrew D. Eschtruth and Jonathan Gemus
401(k)s and Company Stock: How Can We Encourage Diversification?
Alicia H. Munnell and Annika Sundén
Sex and 401(k) Plans
Sheila Campbell and Alicia H. Munnell
How Important Are Private Pensions?
Alicia H. Munnell, Annika Sundén and Elizabeth Lidstone
A Primer on Reverse Mortgages
Andrew D. Eschtruth and Long C. Tran
Are Americans Saving Enough For Retirement?
Cori E. Uccello
Social Security and the Federal Budget
Andrew D. Eschtruth
How Should We Insure Longevity Risk in Pensions and Social Security?
Jeffrey R. Brown
Household Borrowing from 401(k) Plans
Annika Sundén and Brian Surette
How Will Sweden's New Pension System Work?
Annika Sundén
What Stock Market Returns to Expect for the Future?
Peter A. Diamond
What to Do about the Social Security Earnings Test?
Jonathan Gruber and Peter Orszag