Tag: NRRI

Parents helping their son with his homework at home in living room

Kids moderately increase the risk of falling short for households in their 50s. We just released a study that looks at the relationship between children and retirement security.  Kids are expensive.  Parents divert considerable resources to their children – both time out of the labor force when the kids are young and direct expenditures on…

Mom pushing son in a swing

The brief’s key findings are: The cost of raising children could make it harder for parents to save for retirement. On the other hand, if parents offset child-rearing expenses by spending less on themselves, they could still end up well prepared in retirement. The analysis uses the National Retirement Risk Index to look at what…