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Missing the Target? Retirement Expectations and Target Date Funds

SSRN Electronic Journal
2021
  • 1
    Citations
  • 2,376
    Usage
  • 1
    Captures
  • 5
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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Metrics Details

  • Citations
    1
    • Citation Indexes
      1
  • Usage
    2,376
    • Abstract Views
      2,088
    • Downloads
      288
  • Captures
    1
    • Readers
      1
      • SSRN
        1
  • Mentions
    5
    • News Mentions
      5
      • News
        5
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      108,735

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Article Description

Do households make errors when forming retirement expectations, and if so, are they economically important? Leveraging nearly three decades of panel data, we reveal that individuals consistently underestimate their long-term labor participation. This paper introduces a novel model of endogenous retirement choice, integrating biases in life expectancy to quantify the welfare costs. While sub-optimal risk allocation has a marginal impact, inconsistent choices over time lower overall welfare. Errors cost the median respondent over $22,216 in retirement wealth or 12% of certainty equivalent wealth. Cross-sectional analysis suggests that a combination of behavioral biases, risk-aversion, and socioeconomic factors relate to expectation errors.

Bibliographic Details

Byeong-Je An; Kunal Sachdeva

Elsevier BV

Financial Instruments; Target-date Funds; Retirement; Expectations; Longevity

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