Replication Data: Set It and Forget It? Financing Retirement in an Age of Defaults
Creators:
Lucas Goodman, Anita Mukherjee, and Shanthi Ramnath
Publication Date:
2023-02-06
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This dataset, hosted on Mendeley Data, contains the replication data for the study "Set It and Forget It? Financing Retirement in an Age of Defaults" (Goodman, Mukherjee & Ramnath, 2023, Journal of Financial Economics). It includes individual-level retirement savings and tax data used to examine how default options in employer-sponsored retirement plans, such as automatic enrolment and default contribution rates, shape workers' long-term retirement savings behaviour and wealth accumulation, with implications for retirement security and policy design.
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