Tag: SCF

Senior man calculating finances

Abstract This paper examines the importance of annuity-like income as a share of total money income received by aged families.  The analysis considers the aged (62+) population as a whole as well as different parts of the aged families’ income distribution during the period from the early 1980s through 2009.  We use survey data from…

Senior couple and tecnologies

Abstract This paper summarizes what is known about leakages from existing studies and relates these results to detailed data on leakages in 2013 provided by Vanguard’s How America Saves.  It then uses two data sets – the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) – to estimate t…