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Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs
edited by Annamaria Lusardi
University of Chicago Press, 2009
Cloth: 978-0-226-49709-9 | eISBN: 978-0-226-49710-5

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The great majority of working Americans are unprepared to face the difficult task of planning for retirement. In fact, the personal savings rate has been holding steady at zero for several years, down from 8 percent in the mid-1980s. Overcoming the Saving Slump explores the many challenges facing workers in the transition from a traditional defined benefit pension system to one that requires more individual responsibility, analyzing the considerable impediments to saving and evaluating financial literacy programs devised by employers and the government.
 
Mapping the changing landscape of pensions and the rise of defined contribution plans, Annamaria Lusardi and others investigate new methods for stimulating saving and promoting financial education drawing on the experience of the United States as well as countries that have privatized their welfare systems, including Sweden and Chile.  This timely volume pinpoints where human resources departments, the financial industry, and government officials have succeeded—or failed—in bridging the way to a new retirement system. As the workforce ages and more pensions disappear each second, Lusardi’s findings will be invaluable for economists and anyone facing retirement.
 
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Annamaria Lusardi is professor of economics at Dartmouth College and a research associate of the NBER. She won the Fidelity Pyramid Prize for her work on improving lifelong financial well-being for Americans.
 
 
 
 
REVIEWS
“Financial literacy is increasingly important in a world where individuals from all economic strata, rather than institutions, are being given a significantly greater role in financial decision making over the life course. Lusardi’s approach is balanced, innovative, and insightful, drawing perspectives from law, economics, marketing, and sociology, as well as American and international experiences in these domains. This book is well written and will be of interest to a wide variety of readers.”
— Gary Engelhardt, Syracuse University

“Rather than simply reporting on the savings slump, Lusardi assembles a remarkable collection of researchers focused on halting this slide. Rather than limiting their attention to a single solution, they explore a wide range of prescriptions from social marketing and financial education, to product design, policy changes, and process innovations. Lusardi and her collaborators exemplify how careful scholarship can inform an important challenge facing our society.”

— Peter Tufano, Harvard Business School

“This book tells you everything you want to know about financial education and how it can be used to improve financial decisions. It draws on different scientific disciplines, uses evidence from many countries, and discusses the main findings and puzzles in the literature. Indispensable for anyone who is interested in better financial decision making.”

— Arie Kapteyn, Director, RAND Labor and Population

TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Preface

    Introduction
    Annamaria Lusardi

    Part 1. The Shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution Pensions and Financial Regulation

    1. The Changing Landscape of Pensions in the United States
    James M. Poterba, Steven F. Venti, and David A. Wise

    2. Do Workers Know about Their Pension Plan Type? Comparing Workers’ and Employers’ Pension Information
    Alan L. Gustman, Thomas S. Steinmeier, and Nahid Tabatabai

    3. The Trilateral Dilemma in Financial Regulation
    Howell E. Jackson

    Part 2. Portfolio Choice, Life-Cycle Funds, and Annuities

    4. Red, Yellow, and Green: Measuring the Quality of 401(k) Portfolio Choices
    Gary R. Mottola and Stephen P. Utkus

    5. Life-Cycle Funds
    Luis M. Viceira

    6. Understanding the Role of Annuities in Retirement Planning
    Jeffrey R. Brown

    Part 3. Improving Financial Education and Saving Programs

    7. New Ways to Make People Save: A Social Marketing Approach
    Annamaria Lusardi, Punam Anand Keller, and Adam M. Keller

    8. Adjusting Retirement Goals and Saving Behavior: The Role of Financial Education
    Robert L. Clark and Madeleine D’Ambrosio

    9. Financial Education in High School
    LewisMandell

    10. Learning from Individual Development Accounts
    Michael Sherraden and Ray Boshara

    Part 4. Learning from the United States and Other Countries

    11. Learning from the Chilean Experience: The Determinants of Pension Switching
    Olivia S. Mitchell, Petra E. Todd, and David Bravo

    12. Learning from the Experience of Sweden: The Role of Information and Education in Pension Reform
    Annika Sundén

    13. Learning from the Experience of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Countries: Lessons for Policy, Programs, and Evaluations
    Barbara A. Smith and Fiona Stewart

    List of Contributors
    Author Index
    Subject Index
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