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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

How Much Should Americans Be Saving for Retirement?

  • B. Douglas Bernheim
  • Lorenzo Forni
  • Jagadeesh Gokhale
  • Laurence J. Koltikoff
American Economic Review
vol. 90, no. 2, May 2000
(pp. 288–292)
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Citation

Bernheim, B., Douglas, Lorenzo Forni, Jagadeesh Gokhale, and Laurence J. Koltikoff. 2000. "How Much Should Americans Be Saving for Retirement?" American Economic Review 90 (2): 288–292. DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.2.288

JEL Classification

  • D15 Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
  • D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
  • J26 Retirement; Retirement Policies