Baby boomer retirement security: the roles of planning, financial literacy and housing wealth
- We compare wealth holdings across two cohorts of the Health and Retirement Study: the early Baby Boomers in 2004, and individuals in the same age group in 1992. Levels and patterns of total net worth have changed relatively little over time, though Boomers rely more on housing equity than their predecessors. Most important, planners in both cohorts arrive close to retirement with much higher wealth levels and display higher financial literacy than non-planners. Instrumental variables estimates show that planning behavior can explain the differences in savings and why some people arrive close to retirement with very little or no wealth. Klassifizierung: D91, E21
| Author: | Annamaria Lusardi, Olivia S. MitchellORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-33268 |
| Parent Title (German): | Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2006,20 |
| Series (Serial Number): | CFS working paper series (2006, 20) |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2006 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2006/11/18 |
| Tag: | Cohorts; Housing Wealth; Lack of Planning; Literacy; Wealth Holdings |
| Issue: | September 2006 |
| Page Number: | 42 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 190329785 |
| Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
