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
Trump Accounts as an Opportunity to Reduce Exponential Growth Bias and Increase Financial Security, Briefing Book (with Gopi Shah Goda and Colleen Manchester), 2/17/26
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