Cross-national comparisons of data from developed countries offer useful insights into the retirement process and … Aging and Retirement (JSTAR) project, and we compare these with results in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We … examine the relative importance of health, wealth, family, and other factors in work and retirement at older ages cross …

of sensitivity to framing in investment decisions. Policymakers interested in enhancing retirement well-being would do …

derive the optimal retirement portfolio from a menu that includes payout annuities as well as an investment allocation and a … allocation, when fixed as of retirement, is then compared to phased withdrawal strategies such a "self-annuitization" plan or the …

. One way older persons might respond to inadequate savings would be to extend their worklives by delaying retirement. This … paper examines evidence on this matter using the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative panel survey of … people age 51-61 in 1992 followed for several years in a panel. We use the data to project household retirement assets and to …

Retirement Study (HRS) respondents over three survey waves in 2008, 2010, and 2012. We evaluate the demographic determinants and …

This paper analyzes new data on financial literacy and financial sophistication from the 2008 Health and Retirement … own retirement security, this lack of knowledge has serious implications …