Tag: retirement income
The brief’s key findings are: This analysis addresses how the transition from defined benefit to defined contribution plans affected retirement wealth and income during 1992-2010. The results show: total retirement wealth from employer plans was roughly flat, and this wealth is now more skewed toward those with more education; the income produced by each dollar…
Abstract This paper examines the impact of work and retirement on the size, density, and composition of older Americans’ social networks. It uses novel panel data from the first two waves of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project. Critical components of the analysis include the development of an instrumental variable fixed-effect estimation strategy based…
