This paper provides an answer to an important empirical puzzle in the retirement literature: while most people know little about their own pension plans, retirement behavior is strongly affected by pension incentives. We combine administrative and self-reported pension data to measure the...

This paper provides an answer to an important empirical puzzle in the retirement literature: while most people know little about their own pension plans, retirement behavior is strongly affected by pension incentives. We combine administrative and self-reported pension data to measure the...

Jobs increasingly require good decision-making. Workers are valued not only for how much they can do, but also for their ability to decide what to do. In this paper we develop a theory and measurement paradigm for assessing individual variation in the ability to make good decisions about...

1 Introduction to Cognitive Economics -- 2 Cognitive Household Finance -- 3 Measuring and Minimizing Mistakes -- 4 Cognitive Economics at Work -- 5 Cognitive Capital and Human-AI Interactions -- 6 Work Skills for the Cognitive Economy -- 7 Cognitive Economics in Teaching -- 8. Cognitive...