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2013: Will the Rebound in Equities and Housing Save Retirement?

Alicia Munnell, Anthony Webb and Rebecca Rebecca Cannon Fraenkel

2013: Social Security and Equities: Lessons from Railroad Retirement

Steven Sass

2013: Social Security’s Real Retirement Age Is 70

Alicia Munnell

2013: How Does 401(k) Auto-Enrollment Relate to the Employer Match and Total Compensation?

Barbara Butrica and Nadia Karamcheva

2013: Can Educational Attainment Explain the Rise in Labor Force Participation at Older Ages?

Gary Burtless

2013: How Has the Financial Crisis Affected the Consumption of Retirees?

Richard W. Kopcke and Anthony Webb

2013: How Does Women Working Affect Social Security Replacement Rates?

Alicia Munnell, April Yanyuan Wu, Nadia Karamcheva and Patrick Purcell

2013: The Impact of Interest Rates on the National Retirement Risk Index

Alicia Munnell, Anthony Webb and Rebecca Cannon Fraenkel

2013: Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2013 Update in Perspective

Alicia Munnell

2013: How Important Is Medicare Eligibility in the Timing of Retirement?

Norma Coe, Mashfiqur R. Khan and Matthew Rutledge

2013: Can Incentives for Long-Term Care Insurance Reduce Medicaid Spending?

Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

2013: Australia’s Retirement System: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Reforms

Julie Agnew

2013: Do Income Projections Affect Retirement Saving?

Gopi Goda, Colleen Flaherty Manchester and Aaron Sojourner

2013: Subsidies vs. Nudges: Which Policies Increase Saving the Most?

Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Søren Leth-Petersen, Torben Nielsen and Tore Olsen

2013: Will Regulations to Reduce IRA Fees Work?

Alicia Munnell, Anthony Webb and Francis Vitagliano

2013: How Do Employers’ 401(k) Mutual Fund Selections Affect Performance?

Edwin J. Elton, Martin J. Gruber and Christopher R. Blake

2012: A Nudge Isn’t Always Enough

Erin Bronchetti, Thomas Dee, David Huffman and Ellen Magenheim

2012: The National Retirement Risk Index: An Update

Alicia Munnell, Anthony Webb and Francesca Golub-Sass

2012: Can Retirees Base Wealth Withdrawals on the IRS’ Required Minimum Distributions?

Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

2012: Are Aging Baby Boomers Squeezing Young Workers Out of Jobs?

Alicia Munnell and April Yanyuan Wu

2012: Using Participant Data to Improve 401(k) Asset Allocation

Zhenyu Li and Anthony Webb

2012: The Pension Coverage Problem in the Private Sector

Alicia Munnell, Rebecca Cannon Fraenkel and Josh Hurwitz

2012: 2010 SCF Suggests Even Greater Retirement Risks

Alicia Munnell

2012: Who Claimed Social Security Early Due to the Great Recession?

Matthew Rutledge, Norma Coe and Kendrew Wong

2012: 401(k) Plans in 2010: An Update from the SCF

Alicia Munnell

2012: National Retirement Risk Index: How Much Longer Do We Need to Work?

Alicia Munnell, Anthony Webb, Luke Delorme and Francesca Golub-Sass

2012: How Important Is Asset Allocation to Retirement Security?

Alicia Munnell, Natalia Sergeyevna Orlova and Anthony Webb

2012: Should You Buy an Annuity from Social Security?

Steven Sass

2012: Social Security's Financial Outlook: the 2012 Update in Perspective

Alicia Munnell

2012: Why Do More People Die During Economic Expansions?

Ann Stevens, Douglas Miller, Marianne Page and Mateusz Filipski

2012: How Can Employers Encourage Young Workers to Save for Retirement?

Nicole Votolato Montgomery, Lisa R. Szykman and Julie R. Agnew

2012: Can the Actuarial Reduction for Social Security Early Retirement Still Be Right?

Alicia Munnell and Steven Sass

2012: The Rise of Financial Fraud

Kimberly Blanton

2012: What’s the Tax Advantage of 401(k)s?

Alicia Munnell, Laura Quinby and Anthony Webb

2012: Do Income Taxes Affect the Progressivity of Social Security?

Norma Coe, Zhenya Karamcheva, Richard Kopcke and Alicia Munnell

2012: Why Do State Disability Application Rates Vary Over Time?

Norma Coe, Kelly Haverstick, Alicia Munnell and Anthony Webb

2012: What Explains Variation in Disability Application Rates Across States?

Norma Coe, Kelly Haverstick, Alicia Munnell and Anthony Webb

2011: Do Low-Income Workers Benefit From 401(k) Plans?

Eric Toder and Karen Smith

2011: Disability Insurance: Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Help?

Matthew Rutledge

2011: How Much to Save for a Secure Retirement

Alicia Munnell, Anthony Webb and Francesca Golub-Sass

2011: Implications of a 'Chained' CPI

Alicia Munnell and William M. Hisey

2011: What Is the Average Retirement Age?

Alicia Munnell

2011: Did the Housing Boom Increase Household Spending?

Shenyi Jiang, Wei Sun and Anthony Webb

2011: Social Security's Financial Outlook: The 2011 Update in Perspective

Alicia Munnell

2011: Does Medicare Part D Protect the Elderly from Financial Risk?

Gary V. Engelhardt and Jonathan Jonathan Gruber

2011: Is Today's Price-Earnings Ratio Too High?

Richard W. Kopcke and Zhenya Karamcheva

2011: Do Social Security Statements Affect Knowledge and Behavior?

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

2011: Equity Returns in the Coming Decade

Richard W. Kopcke and Zhenya Karamcheva

2011: How Can Customized Information Change Financial Plans?

Norma Coe and Kelly Haverstick

2011: What Is 'CLASS'? And Will It Work?

Alicia Munnell and Josh Hurwitz

2011: Improving Sweden's Automatic Pension Adjustment Mechanism

Nicholas Barr and Peter Diamond

2011: How Important Are Inheritances for Baby Boomers?

Alicia Munnell, Anthony Webb, Zhenya Karamcheva and Andrew Eschtruth