In a nationally-representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey-based elicitations of exponential … present over the future, are highly significant and economically meaningful predictors of retirement savings. These … calculations suggest that eliminating EGB and PB would increase retirement savings by approximately 12 percent. …

from three Australian retirement savings funds. Available US and UK evidence is somewhat mixed on both the measures that …

This paper examines the retirement savings investment choices of Australian workers over a three year period, including …

savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a … strong link to household wealth. -- Financial Education ; Savings and Wealth Accumulation ; Retirement Preparation …

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …

expected to hold less precautionary savings …

Are retirement savings sufficient to finance a good pension income? This highly uncertain and subjective dimension of … replacement rates are systematically higher than the American rates - the perceived savings adequacy is more or less the same … across Dutch and American workers. Moreover, individuals' perceived savings adequacy was found to be influenced by the three …