Financial Inclusion Across the United States

Motohiro Yogo, Andrew Whitten and Natalie Cox

No 33256, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We study retirement and bank account participation for the universe of U.S. households with a member aged 50 to 59 in the administrative tax data. ZCTA-level average income, income inequality, and racial composition predict retirement account participation for low-income households, conditional on household income and regional price parities. Income inequality also predicts bank account participation for low-income households. We estimate the causal effect of access to an employer retirement plan on participation. Recent policy proposals for universal access with automatic enrollment could increase participation by 19 percentage points in the lowest income quintile over ten years.

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Date: 2024-12
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Published as Motohiro Yogo & Andrew Whitten & Natalie Cox, 2025. "Financial Inclusion Across the United States," Journal of Financial Economics, vol 166.

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