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The Boettner Center

WebThe Center encourages research on saving behavior and how resources are managed during retirement, evaluating links between older peoples’ physical and mental health …

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What’s Happening with Higher Education Benefits

WebThere has been a slow but steady growth in total benefits for faculty over time. Average total benefits for faculty have increased from $25,205 in 2005, to $29,123 in …

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Identifying the Retirement Plan Features Most Sought by Employees

WebHealth and wellness; Testing Alternative Situations. These features may be assembled into a traditional defined benefit (DB) or a defined contribution (DC) structure, …

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Effect of Health Costs on Retirement Security

WebThe burden of health care spending depends on the share of health spending in the consumption basket. • A 10% increase in health costs has much larger effects on …

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The Impact of Health Status and Out-of-Pocket Medical …

WebCassio M. Turra and Olivia S. Mitchell WP2004-02. Abstract —This paper describes how differences in health status at retirement can influence the decision to purchase a life …

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How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement …

Webis similar to the US Health and Retirement Study, and it is a nationally representative panel of respondents followed every two years, fielded by the University of Chile’s Microdata …

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Cognitive Ability, Financial Literacy, and the Demand for …

WebOlder Ages: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study Hugh H. Kim, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell January 2018 PRC WP2018 Pension Research Council Working …

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Global Developments in Employee Benefits

Webretirement and health benefits, there is a lingering question whether, in a world of low growth, stagnating incomes and increasingly diverse workforces, one-size-fits-all benefits …

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Retirement Wellness: Toward A More Complete Framework

WebFor all these reasons, good retirement planning should include a number of goals – financial, social, health management, housing – and find ways to make these …

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Providing Health Care Benefits in Retirement

Webtiree health coverage, and thatabout5 million retirees (2 million below age 65) were covered at thatpoint by employer-sponsoredhealth plans. Predictably, retiree health coverage was …

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Providing Health Care Benefits in Retirement

Webbenefits; however, nosimilar restrictions wereimposedon health benefit promises. Recently, however, the astronomical rise in health care costs and the lack ofaccess to and …

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Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement …

WebThe Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative longitudinal dataset. of Americans over the age of 50, has been designed to address these questions by tracking …

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What’s Next for VEBAs

Web65 aged retirees not yet eligible for Medicare had few good options for affordable health insurance. This has now changed with the establishment of national health insurance …

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Providing Health Care Benefits in Retirement

Weboffer health insurance to current workers or to retirees, these relative measures understate the burden assumed by firms thatdo offer them. Most employer payments for health …

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Health Savings Accounts through a Gender Lens

WebA Health Savings Account (HSA) is a resource that many employees can use to save and pay for their immediate as well as longer term healthcare expenses. Since …

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Providing Health Care Benefits in Retirement

WebThe United States health delivery and financing system is changing quickly, but few studies address the special circumstances of retirees and how health care reforms might affect …

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Providing Health Care Benefits in Retirement

Webretiree health financing issue to be tackled in the health care reform debate. Role ofRetiree Health in Financing Care Employer-providedbenefits are an important part of the …

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Providing Health Care Benefits in Retirement

Weboffer reduced retiree health benefits in exchange for meeting retiree in­ come needs throughcash-incomeretirementplans. Thisis likely because current retiree health …

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Insights on Economic Well-being at Older Ages from Analyses …

Webhealth, some are complements, and others are neutral (gifts and donations). When in good health, individuals derive utility from spending on goods and services that are …

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Unexpected Risks and Retirement Planning

WebThe top five risks were as follows: Climate change: number 1 in 2019 and 2020 – was in the top 5 in 2018. Cyber/networks: number 2 in 2019 and 2020 – was …

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