Topic: Private Pensions and Working Papers
Fees and Trading Costs of Equity Mutual Funds in 401(k) Plans and Potential Savings from ETFS and Commingled Trusts
Richard W. Kopcke, Francis M. Vitagliano, and Zhenya S. Karamcheva
An Update on 401(k) Plans: Insights from the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finance
Alicia H. Munnell, Richard W. Kopcke, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Dan Muldoon
Pension Buyouts: What Can We Learn From The UK Experience?
Ashby H. B. Monk
Taxes and Pensions
Peter Diamond
The Disappearing Defined Benefit Pension and its Potential Impact on the Retirement Incomes of Boomers
Barbara A. Butrica, Howard M. Iams, Karen E. Smith, and Eric J. Toder
Reforming Pensions
Nicholas Barr and Peter Diamond
Risky Pensions and Household Saving Over the Life Cycle
David A. Love and Paul A. Smith
The Cost of Owning Employer Stocks: Lessons From Taiwan
Yi-Tsung Lee, Yu-Jane Liu, and Ning Zhu
Why Are Companies Freezing Their Pensions?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Literacy, Trust and 401(k) Savings Behavior
Julie R. Agnew, Lisa Szykman, Stephen P. Utkus, and Jean A. Young
The Recent Evolution of Pension Funds in the Netherlands: The Trend to Hybrid DB-DC Plans and Beyond
Eduard H.M. Ponds and Bart van Riel
The Impact of Aggregate Mortality Risk on Defined Benefit Pension Plans
Irena Dushi, Leora Friedberg, and Anthony Webb
Job Tenure and Pension Coverage
Alicia H. Munnell, Kelly Haverstick, and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher
Effects of Public Policies on the Disposition of Lump-Sum Distributions: Rational and Behavioral Inf
William G. Gale and Michael Dworsky
Pensions, Social Security, Wealth and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
William G. Gale and John W.R. Phillips
Mortality Heterogeneity and The Distributional Consequences of Mandatory Annuitization
Guan Gong and Anthony Webb
Making Maximum Use of Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts
Janette Kawachi, Karen E. Smith, and Eric J. Toder
How Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: The Effect of Health Shocks
Courtney Coile and Kevin Milligan
How Does Marriage Affect the Allocation of Assets in Women's Defined Contribution Plans?
Angela C. Lyons and Tansel Yilmazer
How Do Pensions Affect Expected and Actual Retirement Ages?
Alicia H. Munnell, Robert K. Triest, and Natalia A. Jivan
Deferring Income in Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans: The Dynamics of Participant Contributions
Karen E. Smith, Richard W. Johnson, and Leslie A. Muller
Employer Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Gary V. Engelhardt and Anil Kumar
Asset Allocation and Information Overload: The Influence of Information Display, Asset Choice and Investor Experience
Julie Agnew and Lisa R. Szykman
Large, Small, International: Equity Portfolio Choices in a Large 401(k) Plan
Julie Agnew and Pierluigi Balduzzi
Valuing Assets in Retirement Saving Accounts
James M. Poterba
Household Demand for Variable Annuities
Jeffrey R. Brown and James M. Poterba
Choice and Other Determinants of Employee Contributions to Defined Contribution Plans
Leslie E. Papke
Aggregate Implications of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Systems
Francisco Gomes and Alexander Michaelides
The Outlook for Pension Contributions and Profits in the U.S.
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Annuities and Individual Welfare
Thomas Davidoff, Jeffrey Brown, and Peter Diamond
Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions
Courtney Coile
Annuity Markets and Retirement Security
James M. Poterba
The Trend in Lifetime Earnings Inequality and Its Impact on the Distribution of Retirement Income
Barry Bosworth, Gary Burtless and Claudia Sahm
What Determines 401(k) Participation and Contributions?
Alicia H. Munnell, Annika Sundén and Catherine Taylor
Portfolio Choice, Trading, and Returns in a Large 401(k) Plan
Julie Agnew, Pierluigi Balduzzi, and Annika Sundén
401(k) Investment Decisions and Social Security Reform
Cori E. Uccello