Pension Research Council

The Pension Research Council of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is committed to generating debate on key policy issues affecting pensions and other employee benefits. We sponsor interdisciplinary research on the entire range of private pension and social security programs, as well as related benefit plans in the United States and around the world. Olivia S. Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor, is the Executive Director of the Council.

Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas
Stephen J. Kay and Tapen Sinha, Editors
January 2008

Latin American experiments with pension reform began when Chile converted its public pay-as-you-go system to a system of private individual accounts in the early 1980s. Several other Latin American countries then followed suit, inspired both by Chile's reforms and by World Bank recommendations stressing compulsory government-mandated individual saving accounts. Individual accounts were subsequently introduced in a number of countries in Europe and Asia.

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Optimizing the Equity-Bond-Annuity Portfolio in Retirement: The Impact of Uncertain Health Expenses
Gaobo Pang and Mark Warshawsky

The Retirement Decision: Current Influences on the Timing of Retirement among Older Workers
Gaobo Pang, Mark Warshawsky, and Ben Weitzer

Footnotes Aren't Enough: The Impact of Pension Accounting on Stock Values
Julia Coronado, Olivia S. Mitchell, Steven A. Sharpe, and S. Blake Nesbitt

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Washington Post: Women Pathfinders of the '70s, Falling in a Pension Gap [28K PDF]

Knowledge @ SMU: Retirement Planning: Most People Don’t Know How Nor Even Think About It [39K PDF]

Watson Wyatt and the Wharton Pension Research Council: A Long Relationship [192K PDF]

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