US employers and the federal government devote more than 1.5% of GDP annually toward
promoting defined contribution retirement saving. We study the distributional and lifetime …

This report discusses how public policy should change to bring about better outcomes in
retirement for employees through their accumulation of private pension wealth. In doing so …

Does automatic enrollment into retirement saving increase household debt? We study the
randomized roll-out of automatic enrollment pensions to~ 160,000 employers in the United …

We use administrative data from a large public university to study employee responses to
mandatory retirement saving, which represent a policy alternative to nudges. In response to …

ABSTRACT US employers and the federal government devote over 1.5% of GDP annually
toward promoting defined contribution (DC) retirement saving. Using a new employer …

This paper provides a state-of-the-art overview of defined contribution retirement plan
design for academics, policy makers, and industry participants. I begin by considering the …