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Abstract
This study uses data from pre- and post-crash surveys from the Cognitive Economics study to examine the impact of recent stock and labor market wealth losses on the planned retirement ages of older Americans. Regression estimates imply that the average wealth loss between July 2008 and May/June 2009 is associated with an increase in planned retirement age of approximately 2.5 months. Furthermore, pessimism about future stock market returns is found to amplify the impact of wealth losses on retirement timing.Entities:
Year: 2011 PMID: 23413315 PMCID: PMC3570261 DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.3.40
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am Econ Rev ISSN: 0002-8282