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The House and Living Standards in Retirement

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Alicia H. Munnell
Mauricio Soto

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Do today's retirees have sufficient income to meet their needs? This brief is the third in a series examining replacement rates for current retirees. The first one looked solely at Social Security, the single most important source of retirement income. The second one added employer-sponsored pensions and other financial assets to provide a more comprehensive picture of replacement rates. This brief builds on the previous findings by considering how the addition of housing equity affects replacement rates...

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Paper provided by Center for Retirement Research in its series Issues in Brief with number ib2005-39.

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Date of creation: Dec 2005
Date of revision: Dec 2005
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  1. James F. Moore & Olivia S. Mitchell, 1997. "Projected Retirement Wealth and Savings Adequacy in the Health and Retirement Study," NBER Working Papers 6240, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Alicia H. Munnell & Mauricio Soto, 2006. "What Replacement Rates Do Households Actually Experience In Retirement?," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2005-10, Center for Retirement Research. [Downloadable!]
  3. Alicia H. Munnell & Mauricio Soto, 2005. "How Much Pre-Retirement Income Does Social Security Replace?," Issues in Brief ib2005-36, Center for Retirement Research, revised Nov 2005. [Downloadable!]
  4. Eric M. Engen & William G. Gale & Cori R. Uccello, 1999. "The Adequacy of Retirement Saving," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 30(1999-2), pages 65-188. [Downloadable!]
  5. Gustman, Alan L. & Steinmeier, Thomas L., 1999. "Effects of pensions on savings: analysis with data from the health and retirement study," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(1), pages 271-324, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Steven A. Sass & Francis Vitagliano & Luke Delorme, 2006. "Learning by Teaching," Issues in Brief ib2006-47, Center for Retirement Research, revised May 2006. [Downloadable!]
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