Wealth Accumulation and the Propensity to Plan

By J. Ameriks, Andrew Caplin, John Leahy. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Baby Boomer Retirement Security: The Roles of Planning, Financial Literacy, and Housing Wealth (2006, unknown): “Similar findings are offered by Ameriks et al. (2003). Another possible confound is that planning may reduce uncertainty concerning future asset returns and future income.”
Financial literacy and financial behavior: Evidence from the emerging Asian middle class (2018, unknown): “The literature of financial literacy first developed to study the link between financial literacy and retirement planning (Ameriks et al., 2003, Lusardi and Mitchell, 2007, Bucher-Koenen and Lusardi, 2015, Van Rooij et al., 2011b).”
FINANCIAL LITERACY AROUND THE WORLD: AN OVERVIEW (2011, unknown): “Planning has also been associated with higher wealth even among the better educated (Ameriks et al., 2003).”
Investment in Financial Literacy and Saving Decisions (2013, background): “Ameriks et al. (2003) and Lusardi and Mitchell (2007) also provide evidence of a link between financial literacy and saving decisions. In all these studies financial literacy is taken as an exogenous determinant of saving and portfolio decisions, with no recognition that, like other forms of human c”
FINANCIAL LITERACY, FINANCIAL EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES (2012, unknown): “Subsequent research has found that financial literacy is positively correlated with planning for retirement, savings, and wealth accumulation (Ameriks et al. 2003; Lusardi 2004; Lusardi & Mitchell 2006, 2007; Stango & Zinman 2009; Hung et al. 2009; van Rooij et al. 2012).”
Financial literacy and retirement planning in Germany* (2011, unknown): “Previous research by Ameriks et al. (2003) and Lusardi (1999) as well as Lusardi and Mitchell (2007a) and Lusardi and Beeler (2007) has shown that planning matters for the accumulation of wealth.”
Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare? (2008, unknown): “Those who do not plan are less likely to accumulate substantial retirement wealth (Lusardi,1999, 2002, 2003; Lusardi and Mitchell 2007a; Lusardi and Beeler, 2006; Ameriks et al., 2003) and they are also”
Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning: New Evidence from the Rand American Life Panel (2007, unknown): “2 See Miles (2004) and Christelis et al. (2006).”
Financial Literacy: Implications for Retirement Security and the Financial Marketplace (2012, unknown): “To do so, we replicate a question on whether people plan for retirement asked by Employee Beneﬁts Research Institute (EBRI) in its Retirement Conﬁ-dence Survey and in TIAA-CREF surveys (Ameriks et al., 2003; EBRI, 1996, 2001).”
Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning in Australia (2013, background): “Finally, a growing body of research finds that financial literacy relates to retirement planning, which may lead to greater wealth (for example, Ameriks et al. 2003; Behrman et al. 2010; Lusardi 2009; Lusardi and Mitchell 2011a).”
Self-Control, Financial Literacy and Consumer Over-Indebtedness (2012, background): “Ameriks et al. (2003) use a series of statements relating to ﬁnancial planning activity, which also include examples where individuals are asked to associate themselves with stated behaviours which might be perceived as sub-optimal, such as failure to produce a plan.”