Topic: Savings and Consumption and Working Papers
Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement
Richard W. Johnson, Melissa M. Favreault, and Corina Mommaerts
Capital Income Taxes With Heterogeneous Discount Rates
Peter Diamond and Johannes Spinnewijn
Do Health Problems Reduce Consumption at Older Ages?
Barbara A. Butrica, Richard W. Johnson, and Gordon B.T. Mermin
The Response of Household Saving to the Large Shock of German Reunification
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
Evaluating Micro-Survey Estimates of Wealth and Saving
Barry P. Bosworth and Rosanna Smart
The Impact of Changing Earnings Volatility on Retirement Wealth
Austin Nichols and Melissa M. Favreault
The Housing Bubble and Retirement Security
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
The Trajectory of Wealth in Retirement
David A. Love, Michael G. Palumbo, and Paul A. Smith
How Many Struggle to Get By in Retirement?
Barbara A. Butrica, Dan Murphy, and Sheila R. Zedlewski
How the Income Tax Treatment of Saving and Social Security Benefits May Affect Boomers' Retirement Incomes
Barbara A. Butrica, Karen E. Smith, and Eric Toder
Saving and Wealth Accumulation in the PSID, 1984-2005
Barry P. Bosworth and Sarah Anders
Older Women's Income and Wealth Packages in Cross-National Perspective
Timothy M. Smeeding, Janet C. Gornick, Eva Sierminska, and Maurice Leach
Capital Income Flows and the Relative Well-Being of America's Aged Population
Barry P. Bosworth, Gary Burtless, and Sarah E. Anders
The Role of Governance in Retirement Investments: Evidence from Variable Annuities
Richard Evans and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
Evaluating the Advanced Life Deferred Annuity - An Annuity People Might Actually Buy
Guan Gong and Anthony Webb
Demographic Influences on Saving-Investment Balances in Developing and Developed Economies
Ralph C. Bryant
How Economic Security Changes During Retirement
Barbara A. Butrica
International Investment for Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence on Risk and Returns
Gary Burtless
Cross-National Comparison of Income and Wealth Status in Retirement: First Results from the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS)
Eva Sierminska, Andrea Brandolini, and Timothy M. Smeeding
Saving and Demographic Change: The Global Dimension
Barry Bosworth and Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
Annuitized Wealth and Consumption at Older Ages
Barbara A. Butrica and Gordon B.T. Mermin
Risk and Reward of International Investing for U.S. Retirement Savers: Historical Evidence
Gary Burtless
No Place Like Home: Older Adults and Their Housing
Timothy Smeeding, Barbara Boyle Torrey, Jonathan Fisher, David S. Johnson, and Joseph Marchand
Determinants and Consequences of Bargaining Power in Households
Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb
Cross-National Evidence on the Burden of Age-Related Public Transfers and Health Benefits
Gary Burtless
When the Nest Egg Cracks: Financial Consequences of Health Problems, Marital Status Changes, and Job
Richard W. Johnson, Gordon B.T. Mermin, and Cori E. Uccello
How Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: The Effect of Health Shocks
Courtney Coile and Kevin Milligan
The Decline in Household Saving: What Can We Learn from Survey Data?
Barry Bosworth and Lisa Bell
The Retirement Consumption Conundrum: Evidence from a Consumption Survey
Johnathan Fisher, David S. Johnson, Joseph Marchand, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Barbara Boyle Torrey
Life is Cheap: Using Mortality Bonds to Hedge Aggregate Mortality Risk
Leora Friedberg and Anthony Webb
How Much Is the Working-Age Population Saving?
Alicia H. Munnell, Francesca Golub-Sass, and Andrew Varani
What Replacement Rates Do Households Actually Experience in Retirement?
Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto
Bequests, Inheritances and Family Traditions
Donald Cox and Oded Stark
Understanding Expenditure Patterns in Retirement
Barbara A. Butrica, Joshua H. Goldwyn, and Richard W. Johnson
Changes in the Distribution of Long-Run Earnings and Retirement Incomes- Have Recent Cohorts Fallen
Peter Gottschalk and Minh Huynh
Nonearnings Income Migration in the United States: Anticipating the Geographical Impacts of Baby Boom Retirement
Peter B. Nelson
Why Don't Americans Save?
Barry Bosworth
The Impact Of Aging On Financial Markets and The Economy: A Survey
Barry P. Bosworth, Ralph C. Bryant, and Gary Burtless
Motivation for Money and Care that Adult Children Provide for Parents: Evidence from "Point-Blank" S
Donald Cox and Beth J. Soldo
Effects of Stock Market Fluctuations on the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation
Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori E. Uccello
Valuing Assets in Retirement Saving Accounts
James M. Poterba
Lifetime Earnings, Social Security Benefits, and the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation
Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori Uccello
Household Demand for Variable Annuities
Jeffrey R. Brown and James M. Poterba
Annuitization: Keeping Your Options Open
Irena Dushi and Anthony Webb
Living Arrangements and Supplemental Security Income Receipt Among the Aged
Melissa M. Favreault and Douglas A. Wolf
It's All Relative: Understanding the Retirement Prospects of Baby-Boomers
Barbara A. Butrica, Howard M. Iams, and Karen E. Smith
Can Unexpected Retirement Explain the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle? Evidence for Subjective Retirement Expectations
Melvin Stephens Jr. and Steven J. Haider
Annuities and Individual Welfare
Thomas Davidoff, Jeffrey Brown, and Peter Diamond
Income Maintenance in Old Age: What Can be Learned from Cross-National Comparisons?
Timothy M. Smeeding (with assistance from James Williamson)
Explaining Why So Many People Do Not Save
Annamaria Lusardi
The Adequacy of Household Saving
Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori E. Uccello