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Does Automatic Enrollment Increase Contributions to Supplement Retirement Programs by K-12 and University Employees?

Robert L. Clark and Denis Pelletier

No 26263, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This study examines the impact of the adoption of automatic enrollment provisions by schools and universities in the state of South Dakota for its supplemental retirement saving plan (SRP). In South Dakota, educational personnel are also covered by a defined benefit pension plan and by Social Security. Thus, career public employees in South Dakota can expect a life time annuity from these two programs of around 75 percent of their final salary. Prior to the introduction of automatic enrollment, the proportion of newly hired educators who were contributing to the SRP was less than two percent in their first year of employment. After the introduction of automatic enrollment, over 90 percent of newly hired workers who were auto enrolled were participating in the plan. Thus, auto enrollment is shown to have the same powerful impact on contributions to a retirement saving plan for educational employees even when they also can expect life annuities from a defined benefit pension plan.

JEL-codes: J14 J26 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-09
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