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2024: How Much Could Will-Writing Reduce the Racial Wealth Gap?

Jean-Pierre Aubry, Alicia H. Munnell, Gal Wettstein and Oliver Shih

2024: The Importance of Medicaid for Older Americans

Alicia H. Munnell

2024: Will Auto-IRAs Help Households Cope with Emergency Expenses?

Siyan Liu and Anqi Chen

2024: Will Auto-IRAs Help Households Cope with Emergency Expenses?

Siyan Liu and Laura D. Quinby

2024: Does Remote Work Help Older People with Disabilities?

Siyan Liu and Laura D. Quinby

2024: Is the Retirement Picture for Millennials Looking Better?

Anqui Chen, Nilufer Gok and Alicia H. Munnell

2024: Washington State Establishes a Long-Term Care Program

Alicia H. Munnell

2024: Medicare Finances: A 2024 Update

Alicia H. Munnell

2024: Will Multiple Employer Plans Help Close the Coverage Gap?

Anqui Chen and Alicia H. Munnell

2024: How Do Older Households React to Inflation?

Jean-Pierre Aubrey and Laura D. Quinby

2024: How Do Older Households React to Inflation?

Jean-Pierre Aubry and Laura D. Quinby

2024: How Do Public Pension Plan Returns Compare to Simple Index Investing?

Jean-Pierre Aubrey and Yimeng Yin

2024: Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2024 Update in Perspective

Alicia H. Munnell

2024: Does Temporary Disability Insurance Reduce Reliance on Social Security?

Siyan Liu, Laura D. Quinby and James Giles

2024: Can Incentives Increase the Writing of Wills?

Jean-Pierre Aubry, Alicia H. Munnell and Gal Wettstein

2024: How Will Employer Health Insurance Affect Wages and Social Security?

Anqi Chen, Alicia H. Munnell and Diana Horvath

2024: Small Business Retirement Plans: How Firms Perceive Benefits & Costs

Anqi Chen

2024: Can Employer Demand Support Older Workers Today…And Tomorrow?

Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher

2024: The National Retirement Risk Index: An Update from the 2022 SCF

Yimeng Yin, Anqi Chen and Alicia H. Munnell

2024: Why Did IBM Reopen Its Defined Benefit Plan? Will Others Follow?

Alicia H. Munnell, Yimeng Yin and Jean-Pierre Aubry

2024: What Is the Insurance Value of Social Security by Race and Education?

Gal Wettstein, Karolos Arapakis and Yimeng Yin

2024: The Case for Using Subsidies for Retirement Plans to Fix Social Security

Andrew G. Biggs and Alicia H. Munnell

2024: How Much Do People Value Annuities and Their Added Features?

Karolos Arapakis and Gal Wettstein

2023: Do Financial Professionals Recommend Annuities?

Karolos Arapakis and Gal Wettstein

2023: 401(k)/IRA Holdings in 2022: An Update from the SCF

Anqi Chen and Alicia H. Munnell

2023: Are Older Workers Good for Business?

Laura D. Quinby, Gal Wettstein and James Giles

2023: The National Retirement Risk Index with Varying Claiming Ages

Yimeng Yin, Anqi Chen and Alicia H. Munnell

2023: Could Social Security Child Benefits Help Grandparent Caregivers?

Siyan Liu and Laura D. Quinby

2023: How Satisfied Are Retirees with the Social Security Claiming Process?

Jean-Pierre Aubry

2023: What Are the Implications of Rising Debt for Older Americans?

Anqi Chen, Siyan Liu and Alicia H. Munnell

2023: How Does the Social Security Claiming Process Vary by Race?

Jean-Pierre Aubry

2023: Why Did Disability Insurance Rolls Drop from 2015 to 2019?

Siyan Liu and Laura D. Quinby

2023: Wills, Wealth, and Race

Jean-Pierre Aubry, Alicia H. Munnell and Gal Wettstein

2023: What Happened to Late Boomers’ Retirement Wealth?

Anqi Chen, Alicia H. Munnell and Laura D. Quinby

2023: Public Pension Funded Levels Improve Amidst Rising Interest Rates

Jean-Pierre Aubry and Yimeng Yin

2023: Should Social Security Invest in Equities?

Alicia H. Munnell and Michael Wicklein

2023: Transferring Control of Finances: Timing Poses a Risk

John Ameriks, Anderew Caplin, Minjoon Lee, Matthew Shapiro and Christopher Tonetti

2023: How Well Do People Perceive Their Retirement Preparedness?

Anqi Chen, Yimeng Yin and Alicia H. Munnell

2023: Medicare Finances: A 2023 Update

Alicia H. Munnell and Michael Wicklein

2023: Medicare Finances: A 2023 Update

Alicia H. Munnell and Michael Wicklein

2023: Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2023 Update in Perspective

Alicia H. Munnell

2023: The Sustainability of State & Local Pensions: A Public Finance Approach

Louise Sheiner

2023: What Drives the Racial Housing Wealth Gap for Older Homeowners?

Siyan Liu and Laura D. Quinby

2023: How Did the Pandemic Affect Household Balance Sheets?

Andrew G. Biggs, Anqi Chen and Alicia H. Munnell

2023: Are Older Mortgage Applicants More Likely to Be Rejected?

Natee Amornsiripanitch

2023: What Matters for Annuity Demand: Objective Life Expectancy or Subjective Survival Pessimism?

Karolos Arapakis and Gal Wettstein

2023: How Will COVID Affect Completed Fertility?

Anqi Chen, Nilufer Gok and Alicia H. Munnell

2023: How Do Unpaid Student Loans Impact Social Security Benefits?

Gal Wettstein and Siyan Liu

2022: Why Do Some Small Businesses Offer Retirement Plans?

Anqi Chen and Alicia H. Munnell

2022: How Does Local Cost-of-Living Affect Retirement?

Laura D. Quinby and Gal Wettstein

2022: Will Older Individuals Avoid Nursing Homes After the Pandemic?

Bertrand Achou, Philippe De Donder, Franca Glenzer, Minjoon Lee and Marie-Louise Leroux

2022: Social Security Claiming: COVID-19 vs. Great Recession

Anqi Chen, Siyan Liu and Alicia H. Munnell

2022: Will Survivors of the First Year of the Pandemic Have Lower Mortality?

Gal Wettstein, Nilufer Gok, Anqi Chen and Alicia H. Munnell

2022: How Much Does Inflation Vary by Income? Depends on How It’s Measured

Alicia H. Munnell and Diana Horvath

2022: After 50 Years of Progress, How Prepared Are Women for Retirement?

Alicia H. Munnell, Siyan Liu and Laura D. Quinby

2022: How Much Do Retirees Spend on Uncertain Health Costs?

Karalos Arapakis

2022: Public Pensions Contend with Falling Markets and Rising Inflation

Jean-Pierre Aubry

2022: How Much Does Health Spending Eat Away at Retirement Income?

Melissa McInerney, Matthew Rutledge and Sara Ellen King

2022: How to Think About Recent Trends in the Average Retirement Age?

Alicia H. Munnell

2022: How Well Do Retirees Assess the Risks They Face in Retirement?

Wenliang Hou

2022: Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2022 Update in Perspective

Alicia H. Munnell

2022: Will the Jobs of the Future Support an Older Workforce?

Geoffery T. Sazenbacher and Gal Wettstein

2022: Can We Predict Boomers’ Drawdown Behavior from Earlier Cohorts?

Gal Wettstein and Robert L. Siliciano

2022: Does Employer Concentration Reduce Labor Force Participation?

Geoffery T. Sazenbacher and Gal Wettstein

2022: Do Households Save More When the Kids Leave? Take Two

Andrew G. Biggs, Anqi Chen and Alicia H. Munnell

2022: Will Unretirement Help Solve the Labor Shortage?

Geoffery T. Sazenbacher and Matthew Rutledge

2022: Medicare’s Finances and the Aduhelm Saga

Alicia H. Munnell and Patrick Hubbard

2022: How to Increase Usage of Social Security’s Online Tools

Jean-Pierre Aubry