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- Faculty Publications (253)
- 1998
- Working Paper
The Design and Production of New Retirement Savings Products
By: Zvi Bodie and Dwight B. Crane
- February 1, 2024
- Editorial
Retired Military Officials: Protecting Abortion Care Keeps America Safe
By: Louis Caldera, Ray Mabus and Deborah James
Caldera, Louis, Ray Mabus, and Deborah James. "Retired Military Officials: Protecting Abortion Care Keeps America Safe." Washingtonpost.com (February 1, 2024).
- January 2025
- Article
Automatic Enrollment with a 12% Default Contribution Rate
By: John Beshears, Ruofei Guo, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and James J. Choi
We study a retirement savings plan with a default contribution rate of 12% of income, which is much higher than previously studied defaults. Twenty-five percent of employees had not opted out of this default 12 months after hire; a literature review finds that the... View Details
Keywords: Retirement Savings; Defined Contribution Retirement Plan; Automatic Enrollment; Retirement; Saving; Income; Decision Choices and Conditions
Beshears, John, Ruofei Guo, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and James J. Choi. "Automatic Enrollment with a 12% Default Contribution Rate." Journal of Pension Economics & Finance 24, no. 1 (January 2025): 152–182. (20th Anniversary Special Issue.)
- January 2012 (Revised February 2013)
- Teaching Note
Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market (TN)
By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and Timothy Gray
- Article
The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Katherine L. Milkman
Using a field experiment in a 401(k) plan, we measure the effect of disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of... View Details
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman. "The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions." Journal of Finance 70, no. 3 (June 2015): 1161–1201.
- June 2015
- Teaching Note
AIP Healthcare Japan: Investing in Japan's Retirement Home Market
By: John A. Quelch
- 21 Feb 2014
- News
Why myRa is not the way to save for retirement
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
Goldman Sachs’s Eric Dobkin, Father of Modern I.P.O., to Retire
- February 2013
- Supplement
Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market (CW)
By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy
- 08 Jun 2015
- News
USA TODAY publisher Kramer to retire before Gannett print spinoff
- 04 Apr 2025
- News
How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge
- 26 Oct 2024
- News
Author Q&A: How to Know When and How to Retire
- 2024
- Working Paper
Automating Short-Term Payroll Savings: Evidence from Two Large U.K. Experiments
By: Sarah Holmes Berk, James J. Choi, Jay Garg, John Beshears and David Laibson
Automatic enrollment is often used to increase retirement savings. What are the effects of using it (or, alternatively, requiring an active enrollment choice) to increase short-term savings? We evaluate two experiments in the U.K. at employers that enable workers to... View Details
Berk, Sarah Holmes, James J. Choi, Jay Garg, John Beshears, and David Laibson. "Automating Short-Term Payroll Savings: Evidence from Two Large U.K. Experiments." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32581, June 2024.
- November 2013
- Article
Simplification and Saving
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to procrastination. We evaluate a low-cost intervention that substantially simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement... View Details
Keywords: Retirement Savings; Simplification; Procrastination; Behavioral Economics; Saving; Motivation and Incentives; Retirement
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Simplification and Saving." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 95 (November 2013): 130–145.
- December 2019
- Article
Understanding Retirement Requires Getting Inside People's Stories: A Call for More Qualitative Research
Amabile, Teresa M. "Understanding Retirement Requires Getting Inside People's Stories: A Call for More Qualitative Research." Work, Aging and Retirement 5, no. 3 (July 2019): 207–211.