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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w27575 |
来源ID | Working Paper 27575 |
How Much to Save? Decision Costs and Retirement Plan Participation | |
Jacob Goldin; Tatiana Homonoff; Richard W. Patterson; William L. Skimmyhorn | |
发表日期 | 2020-07-27 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Deciding how much to save for retirement can be complicated. Drawing on a field experiment conducted with the Department of Defense, we study whether such complexity depresses participation in an employer-sponsored retirement saving plan. We find that simplifying one dimension of the enrollment decision, by highlighting a potential rate at which non-participants might contribute, increases participation in the plan. Similar communications that did not include a highlighted rate yield smaller effects. The results highlight how reducing complexity on the intensive margin of a decision (how much to contribute) can affect extensive margin behavior (whether to contribute at all) in a setting of policy interest. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Financial Economics ; Behavioral Finance |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27575 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585247 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jacob Goldin,Tatiana Homonoff,Richard W. Patterson,et al. How Much to Save? Decision Costs and Retirement Plan Participation. 2020. |
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