Don’t Bother Discussing Interest Rates and Bond Prices
Olivia S. Mitchell, Wharton Professor of Insurance/Risk Management and Applied Economics/Policy and Director of the Pension Research Council, and her coauthor Annamaria Lusardi of George Washington...
View ArticleTime to Change the Conversation on Social Security
Many people thinking about Social Security benefits focus only on how soon they can file. But in a new research study, Olivia S. Mitchell, Wharton Professor of Insurance/Risk Management & Applied...
View ArticleDelaying Social Security Benefits for a Lump Sum
Olivia S. Mitchell, Wharton Professor of Insurance/Risk Management & Applied Economics/Policy, and Director of the Pension Research Council, has a new study on how to get people to claim Social...
View ArticleLump Sums Could Mean Longer Worklives
Eligible individuals can start receiving Social Security benefits as young as 62 but if they waited until age 70, monthly benefits would rise 76%. Yet most Americans retire before the age of 65. In...
View ArticleNarrow Framing and Long-Term Care Insurance
Daniel Gottlieb and Olivia S. Mitchell Abstract — We propose a model of narrow framing in insurance and test it using data from a new module we designed and fielded in the Health and Retirement Study....
View ArticleLessons for Public Pensions from Utah’s Move to Pension Choice
Robert L. Clark, Emma Hanson, and Olivia S. Mitchell Abstract — This paper explores what happened when the state of Utah moved away from its traditional defined benefit pension. Instead, it offered new...
View ArticleBorrowing from the Future: 401(k) Plan Loans and Loan Defaults
Timothy (Jun) Lu, Olivia S. Mitchell, Stephen P. Utkus, and Jean A. Young Abstract — Tax-qualified retirement plans seek to promote saving for retirement, yet most employers permit pre-retirement...
View ArticlePublic Pension Changes Can Be Costly
A recent study, “Lessons for Public Pensions from Utah’s Move to Pension Choice,” showed that many public sector workers offered less generous pensions did not boost their supplemental saving to make...
View ArticleImpact on Pension Fund Investments in Infrastructure under Global Financial...
Impact on Pension Fund Investments in Infrastructure under Global Financial Regulation Authors: Javier Alonso, Alfonso Arellano, and David Tuesta Abstract — One common denominator observed in global...
View ArticleSpecial Issue of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
In this special issue of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, @pensionsjournal offers several studies on key issues in household finance, including debt, pension, bequest, and life insurance...
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