Working Papers Press Mentions
Goda, G., M. Levy, C. Manchester, A. Sojourner, & J. Tasoff (2019) Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias. Economic Inquiry. 57(3): 1636-1658.
Working Papers Summaries
- 2015 NBER Retirement Research Consortium annual meeting brief and slides.
- Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Brief: The Role of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias in Retirement Savings
- The Atlantic: The Two Biases that Keep People from Saving Money
- WBUR: Study Finds Two Biases That Hurt Americans' Savings
- NBER Bulletin on Aging & Health: How Biases Affect Retirement Savings
- Dow Jones MarketWatch Retirement Weekly: How Does Your 401(k) Contribution Translate Into Retirement Income?
- PBS Next Avenue: Two Mental Roadblocks That Keep Us From Saving
- Picked up by: Forbes and Yahoo! Finance Canada
- Money Magazine: The Real Reasons Americans Aren't Saving Enough for Retirement
- PBS Next Avenue: The $24 Billion Workers Are Leaving on the Table: Why are employees passing up so much free 401(k) money
- Squared Away: Our Blind Spots Cut Retirement Savings. One of most popular posts of 2016.
- Think Advisor: These 2 Behavioral Biases Could Mean Up to 70% Less in Retirement
- PolicyGenius: Struggling to save money? Blame your brain
- ETF Trends: 5 Behavioral Finance Biases That Hurt Investment Decisions
Goda, G., C. Manchester & A. Sojourner (2014) What Will My Account Really Be Worth? Experimental Evidence on How Retirement Income Projections Affect Saving. Journal of Public Economics. 119: 80-92
Summaries
- TIAA-CREF Institute Trends & Issues brief [pdf]
- Video and slides from George Washington U. business school - U.S. Federal Reserve Board joint seminar on financial literacy
- U.S. Department of Labor Clearinghouse for Labor and Evaluation Research summary
- U.S. Dept. of Labor's advance notice of proposed rulemaking on lifetime income projections
- Wall Street Journal Market Watch: The More You Know, The More You Save
- Business Insider: This Mental Trick Could Help You Save More Money 5/2814
- U.S. News & World Reports blog: The Easiest Way to Get People to Save More
- FinSights blog on round table for industry leaders on retirement income
- WorldatWork's WorkSpan article: Compensation Research Summer Camp 8/2013
- Next Avenue article: The Most Important Thing to Know About Your 401(k)
- Stanford University Report: Knowledge is power when it comes to retirement planning
- BenefitsPro article: Type of retirement education determines how much employees save
- Boston College Center for Retirement Research policy brief and Squared Away Blog post
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Bulletin on Aging and Health article [pdf]
- Retirement Income Journal: Income projections have small but significant effects on participant saving rates
- Nerd's Eye View blurb
- Wall Street Journal Market Watch Encore: A Scare Tactic Could Boost Saving
- RAND Insight brief
- National Center for Policy Analysis summary
Goda, G., M. Levy, C. Manchester, A. Sojourner, & J. Tasoff (2020) Who Is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 173: 301-321.
Working Papers Summaries
- VoxEU: Auto-Enrollment Changes Who Is a Passive Saver
- TIAA Institute: Mechanisms Behind Retirement Saving Behavior. Paper & brief
- RRC brief: Do Defaults Have Spillover Effects?
- Minneapolis Fed: Saving for retirement
Aaron Sojourner
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org