Tag: empty nester
When children grow up and become financially independent, how do parents adjust their finances? Are they finally spending money on themselves? Saving more for retirement? Paying down debt? No one has come up with a convincing answer yet. Especially puzzling is that past research has shown that parents seem to reduce their consumption after t…
The brief’s key findings are: When kids leave home, parents consume less but they don’t save more. So where is the money going? The analysis looks at three ways to square the circle: define saving more broadly: parents could be paying down debt faster; define consumption more broadly: they could be assisting grown children; and…
