Do Retirement Saving Programs Increase Saving

By D. Wise. 1995

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Generalized random forests (2016, methodology): “Other classical uses of instrumental variables regression include measuring the impact of military service on lifetime income by using the Vietnam draft lottery as an instrument (Angrist, 1990), and measuring the extent to which 401(k) savings programs crowd out other savings, using eligibility for ”
Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Choices, and the Path of Least Resistance (2002, unknown): “See Poterba, Venti, and Wise (1996, 1998b) for evidence that asset shifting effects are not large.”
Save More Tomorrow™: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving (2004, background): “evidence that both tax incentives ( Poterba et al, 1996 ) and education (Bernheim et al, 1997)”
Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model (2008, unknown): “These alternative models imply that a laissez-faire approach to saving policy is likely to be inefficient (Bernheim 1994; Poterba, Venti, and Wise 1996; Laibson, Repetto, and Tobacman 1998; Ameriks, Caplin, and Leahy 2003; Thaler and Benartzi 2004).”
The Effects of 401(k) Plans on Household Wealth: Differences Across Earnings Groups (2000, unknown): “Second, Poterba, Venti, and Wise (1996a, 1996b) note that at the beginning of the sample period, eligibles as a group had higher housing wealth than ineligibles did.”
Defined Contribution Pensions: Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance (2002, background): “See Poterba , Venti , and Wise ( 1996 , 1998b ) for evidence that asset shifting effects are not large . many different effects .”
Pension design and structure : new lessons from behavioral finance (2004, background): “Even comparing employees in firms that offer a plan to those in firms which do not offer a plan may not solve the problem, if firms that offer 401(k) plans employ different types of people (Poterba et al., 1996).”
Wealth Accumulation Over the Life Cycle and Precautionary Savings (2003, background): “Some authors (e.g., Poterba, Venti, and Wise 1996) found large effects.”
Employer matching and 401(k) saving: Evidence from the health and retirement study (2007, background): “Engen, Gale, and Scholz (1996), Poterba, Venti, and Wise (1996), Bernheim (2002), and Engelhardt (2001), among others, have discussed the potential interactions between housing and 401(k)s. 5 We assume that all non-pension wealth earns the same gross rate of return.”
The Role of Wealth Transformations: An Application to Estimating the Effect of Tax Incentives on Saving (2006, methodology): “…been used by Venti and Wise (1992, 1995), Engen, Gale, and Scholz (1994), and Attanasio and DeLeire (2002) to assess the effectiveness of IRAs; by Poterba, Venti, and Wise (1995, 1996, 1998), Engen, Gale, and Scholz (1994, 1996), Engen and Gale (1997, 2000), Sabelhaus and Ayotte (1997), and…”