Tag: retirement wealth
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a primary source of information on retirement wealth, income, and replacement rates, but calculating these measures requires a host of methodological choices that affect the results. Since researchers have not yet established clear best practices for dealing with the survey’s complex structure, studies using the HRS are often…
The brief’s key findings are: Late Boomers have less retirement wealth than earlier cohorts, including surprisingly low 401(k) assets. To explain this drop, the analysis explored both changing demographics and labor market experiences. The results show that part of the drop is due to a decline in the share of Late Boomers who are White, married, and…
