Tag: retirement security
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…
The brief’s key findings are: Net housing wealth, a major asset for most households, depends on the value of the house and the amount of mortgage debt. The analysis tests how below-trend house prices and high housing debt affected the 2013 National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI). The results show that the impact of house prices…
