Tag: Women's retirement preparedness
Abstract We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4 percent per child born before January 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories, we implement a difference-in-differences design comparing women…
The brief’s key findings are: In the 50 years since Title IX’s passage, women have made major economic progress in education, earnings, and wealth. They have also become more independent, with late baby boomers spending less than half their adult lives married. Moving away from marriage, by reducing support from a spouse, could have put…
