little effect on savings rates. In many countries, however, retirement incentives in social security programs prevent … retirement ages from keeping pace with changes in life expectancy, leading to an increased need for life-cycle savings. Analyzing … a cross-country panel of macroeconomic data, we find that increased longevity raises aggregate savings rates in …

optimal savings and therefore the level of unintended bequests. While those bequests may have no value to the retirees, they …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … change the level of pensions, but only manipulated the knowledge about and salience of expected pension payments. Using … on private retirement savings. Our results show that the letters increase private retirement savings. The effects are …

and an incentive to save more themselves. For this reason, unfunded private pensions differ fundamentally from the … unfunded Social Security pension and the other unfunded federal government civilian and military pensions …

Retirement savings decisions should depend on expectations of Social Security retirement income. Persons may be … savings …

a simple life cycle explanation for savings. They also raise questions about whether pensions are fundamentally a tax … and Retirement Study (HRS), and the role of pensions in forming retirement wealth. Pension coverage is widespread … those with pensions than for those without pensions. Multivariate regressions relating total wealth to pension coverage and …