Rising age gap in economic well-being
2011 report from the Pew Research Center on the growing wealth gap between households headed by younger versus older members.
aging
Expert Commentary
Decision-making capacities in older adults
2011 study from Texas A&M and U.T. Austin in Psychological Science on decision-making abilities in younger and older adults.
Expert Commentary
Assessing the impact of the Great Recession on income and poverty across states
2011 fact sheet published by Congress’s Joint Economic Committee on the recession’s impact at the state level.
Expert Commentary
Who never receives Social Security benefits?
2011 paper by the federal Office of Retirement Policy analyzes demographic information for “never-beneficiaries” aged 62 to 84.
Expert Commentary
2011 annual report by the Social Security Board of Trustees
2011 U.S. Government report on the challenges facing the Social Security system and its ability to meet its obligations to retirees and those on disability.
Expert Commentary
Outlook for stocks, equity in the coming decade
2011 report by Boston College on underlying trends in stock values and the outlook for personal retirement investments.
Expert Commentary
Health and medical research websites
Open access database of scientific research, including on biology, disease, genetics and much more.
Expert Commentary
Role of financial literacy in retirement plans
2010 study for National Bureau of Economic Research on lack of financial knowledge and retirement decisions.
Expert Commentary
Mental retirement: Cognition, memory and outcomes
2010 study in the Journal of Economic Perspectives on the effect of early retirement on cognitive function of people in their early 60s.
Expert Commentary
The troubled U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
2008 study published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives on the factors that have hurt the U.S. pension-insurance corporation.
Expert Commentary