In recognition of their paper, “Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds,” Brigitte Madrian, David Laibson, and James Choi were given the 2011 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on LIfelong Financial...
Funded by the NIA, LASI is a survey of persons 45 years and older in India, and their spouses. For the pilot wave, a representative sample of 1,683 people was surveyed on family structure, social interactions, health and health behaviors, cognition and well-being,...
In this story on the reasons that many Americans are postponing retirement, David Weir says that not only does postponement reduce retirement years and increase years of asset growth, but saving in the several years preceding retirement is generally easier: “In...
Who qualifies as a “senior citizen”? As William Frey suggests here, as the 80 million or so Boomers reach retirement age, the status of seniorhood may be somewhat of a moving target. For example, marketers may stretch their intended audience age limit, or...
University of Pennsylvania’s Claudia Valeggia was selected as a 2011 winner of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in...
