This paper examines how Indian households allocate their savings portfolio across gold,
financial assets, and cash during the COVID-19 crisis. Our study relies on an extensive …

Using Health and Retirement Study data linked to summary plan descriptions and W-2s, this
study reports trends in retirement wealth inequality of older employees 1992–2010. The …

Social Security benefits are progressive and offset the unequal distribution of retirement
wealth generated by a broken employer-based retirement system. Though Social Security …

This paper examines how Indian households allocate their savings portfolio across gold,
financial assets, and cash during the COVID-19 crisis. Our study relies on an extensive …

The recent decade has witnessed a growing interest in people's ability to manage their
financial affairs. Leading organizations such as the OECD and the World Bank are …

Plan liquidity provisions will impact retirement security—negatively for some (evil) but
favorably for others (es sential). Since the Great Recession, there have been dozens of …

Worry about running out of money in retirement (hereinafter referred to as retirement worry)
is Americans' number one financial worry since 2001 (Gallup, 2018a, 2018b, 2019) …

Medical hardships are common in the United States due to rising medical expenditures and
patient-financial responsibilities. Meanwhile, every year, billions of dollars are lost to …

Policy Note| Social Security is the most essential and well-functioning part of the US
retirement system. Any reforms to federal retirement policy—while necessary and long …

Over 40 million people over the age of 55 work or would like to work but were pushed out of
the labor force. The sheer scale and fast growth of older workers—45 percent of the 11.9 …