Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31390 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 05-18
Publisher: 
University of California, Department of Economics, Davis, CA
Abstract: 
This paper provides an answer to an important empirical puzzle in the retirement literature: while most people know little about their own pension plans, retirement behavior is strongly affected by pension incentives. We combine administrative and self-reported pension data to measure the retirement response to actual and perceived financial incentives. While virtually all recent empirical work has relied on administrative- or employer-reported data, we document an important role for self-reported pension data in determining retirement behavior. Well-informed individuals are five times more responsive to pension incentives than the average. In contrast, ill-informed individuals respond to their own misperceptions of the incentives rather than being unresponsive to any measured incentives.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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