Topic: Private Pensions

• Do Low-Income Workers Benefit From 401(k) Plans?
  Eric Toder and Karen E. Smith
• The Pension Protection Act of 2006 and Diversification of Employer Stock in Defined Contribution Plans
  Gary V. Engelhardt
• Do Low-Income Workers Benefit from 401(k) Plans?
  Eric Toder and Karen E. Smith
• Corporate Pension Plan Investments in Alternative Assets: Determinants and Consequences
  Divya Anantharaman
• Employee Mobility and Employer-Provided Retirement Plans
  Arthur-Damon Jones
• Changes in Firm Pension Policy: Trends Away From Traditional Defined Benefit Plans
  Kandice A. Kapinos
• What People Know about Target-Date Funds: Survey and Focus Group Evidence
  Julie R. Agnew, Lisa R. Szykman, Stephen P. Utkus, and Jean A. Young
• Pension Participation and Uncovered Workers
  Nadia Karamcheva and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher
• Reducing Costs of 401(k) Plans with ETFs and Commingled Trusts
  Richard W. Kopcke, Francis M. Vitagliano, and Zhenya S. Karamcheva
• The Case For Longevity Bonds
  David Blake, Tom Boardman, and Andrew Cairns
• Incorporating Employee Heterogeneity Into Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection
  Gopi Shah Goda and Colleen Flaherty Manchester
• How To Close the Funding Gap in Dutch Pension Plans? Impact on Generations
  Niels Kortleve and Eduard Ponds
• The Shrinking Tax Preference for Pension Savings: An Analysis of Income Tax Changes, 1985-2007
  Gary Burtless and Eric Toder
• Returns on 401(k) Assets by Cohort
  Alicia H. Munnell and Jean-Pierre Aubry
• Should You Convert a Traditional IRA Into a Roth IRA?
  Richard W. Kopcke and Francis M. Vitagliano
• Why Did Some Employers Suspend Their 401(k) Match?
  Alicia H. Munnell and Laura Quinby
• Is Pension Inequality Growing?
  Nadia Karamcheva and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher
• Pension Coverage and Retirement Security
  Alicia H. Munnell and Laura Quinby
• Will Automatic Enrollment Reduce Employer Contributions to 401(k) Plans?
  Mauricio Soto and Barbara A. Butrica
• Retirement Security and the Stock Market Crash: What Are the Possible Outcomes?
  Barbara A. Butrica, Karen E. Smith, and Eric J. Toder
• 401(k) Plans and Race
  Alicia H. Munnell and Christopher Sullivan
• 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 Finances
  Alicia H. Munnell, Richard W. Kopcke, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Dan Muldoon
• Do Low Earners Benefit from 401(k) Plans?
  Mauricio Soto, Richard Johnson, Eric Toder, and Karen Smith
• Pension Buyouts: What Can We Learn From the UK Experience?
  Ashby H.B. Monk
• Pension Buyouts: What Can We Learn From The UK Experience?
  Ashby H. B. Monk
• Risk Pooling and the Market Crash: Lessons From Canada's Pension Plan
  Ashby H.B. Monk and Steven A. Sass
• Taxes and Pensions
  Peter Diamond
• How Do Emotions Influence Saving Behavior?
  Gergana Y. Nenkov, Deborah J. MacInnis, and Maureen Morrin
• An Update on 401(k) Plans: Insights From the 2007 SCF
  Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Dan Muldoon
• The Structure of 401(k) Fees
  Richard W. Kopcke, Francis Vitagliano, and Dan Muldoon
• 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 Financial Crisis and Private Defined Benefit Plans
  Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry, and Dan Muldoon
• Are Retirement Savings Too Exposed to Market Risk?
  Alicia H. Munnell and Dan Muldoon
• Pension Wealth and Income: 1992, 1998, and 2004
  Olga Sorokina, Anthony Webb, and Dan Muldoon
• 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
• Do Financial Literacy and Mistrust Affect 401(k) Participation?
  Julie R. Agnew, Lisa Szykman, Stephen P. Utkus, and Jean A. Young
• Should Public Plans Engage in Social Investing?
  Alicia H. Munnell
• Literacy, Trust and 401(k) Savings Behavior
  Julie R. Agnew, Lisa Szykman, Stephen P. Utkus, and Jean A. Young
• Sharing Risk: The Netherlands' New Approach to Pensions
  Eduard H.M. Ponds and Bart van Riel
• 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
• An Update on Private Pensions
  Alicia H. Munnell and Pamela Perun
• What Stock Market Returns to Expect for the Future?
  Peter A. Diamond
• The Impact of Aggregate Mortality Risk on Defined Benefit Pension Plans
  Irena Dushi, Leora Friedberg, and Anthony Webb
• Job Tenure and the Spread of 401(k)s
  Alicia H. Munnell, Kelly Haverstick, and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher
• Job Tenure and Pension Coverage
  Alicia H. Munnell, Kelly Haverstick, and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher
• Investment Returns: Defined Benefit vs. 401(k)
  Alicia H. Munnell, Mauricio Soto, Jerilyn Libby, and John Prinzivalli
• 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
• Estimating Pension Coverage Using Different Data Sets
  Geoffrey Sanzenbacher
• Mortality Heterogeneity and The Distributional Consequences of Mandatory Annuitization
  Guan Gong and Anthony Webb
• 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
• Personalized Retirement Advice and Managed Accounts: Who Uses Them and How Does Advice Affect Behavior In 401(k) Plans?
  Julie Agnew
• The State of Private Pensions: Current 5500 Data
  Marric Buessing and Mauricio Soto
• 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
• Could Tax Reform Kill 401(k) Plans?
  Alicia H.Munnell
• How Do Pensions Affect Replacement Rates?
  Alicia H.Munnell and Mauricio Soto
• 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
• Improving 401(k) Investment Performance
  William G. Gale, J. Mark Iwry, Alicia H. Munnell, and Richard H. Thaler
• 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
• Changing 401(k) Defaults on Cashing Out: Another Step in the Right Direction
  Alicia H. Munnell and James G. Lee
• Deferring Income in Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans: The Dynamics of Participant Contributions
  Karen E. Smith, Richard W. Johnson, and Leslie A. Muller
• An Update on Pension Data
  Alicia H. Munnell, James G. Lee and Kevin B. Meme
• 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
• An Analysis of How Individuals React to Market Returns in One 401(k) Plan
  Julie Agnew
• 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
• How Do Cash Balance Plans Affect the Pension Landscape?
  Kevin E. Cahill and Mauricio Soto
• Reforming the U.S. Retirement Income System: The Growing Role of Work
  Steven A. Sass
• Aggregate Implications of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Systems
  Francisco Gomes and Alexander Michaelides
• 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
• 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
• How Will the Rise in 401(k) Plans Affect Bequests?
  Alicia H. Munnell, Annika Sundén, Mauricio Soto, and Catherine Taylor
• 401(k)s and Company Stock: How Can We Encourage Diversification?
  Alicia H. Munnell and Annika Sundén
• Social Security and the Private Pension System: The Significance of Integrated Plans
  Pamela Perun
• Sex and 401(k) Plans
  Sheila Campbell and Alicia H. Munnell
• How Important Are Private Pensions?
  Alicia H. Munnell, Annika Sundén and Elizabeth Lidstone
• The Trend in Lifetime Earnings Inequality and Its Impact on the Distribution of Retirement Income
  Barry Bosworth, Gary Burtless and Claudia Sahm
• Annuity Markets and Retirement Security
  James M. Poterba
• Redistribution and Insurance: Mandatory Annuitization With Mortality Heterogeneity
  Jeffrey Brown
• What Determines 401(k) Participation and Contributions?
  Alicia H. Munnell, Annika Sundén and Catherine Taylor
• Do Spouses Coordinate Their Investment Decisions In Order To Share Risks?
  Cori E. Uccello
• 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
• 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