Browsing Harvard Kennedy School by Author "Venti, Steven F."

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    • The Asset Cost of Poor Health 

      Poterba, James; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David Alsgaard (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in the first nine waves of the Health and Retirement Survey. Rather than enumerating the specific costs of poor health, such as ...

    • The Drawdown of Personal Retirement Assets 

      Poterba, James M.; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David Alsgaard (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      How households draw down the balances that they accumulate in retirement saving accounts such as 401(k) plans and Individual Retirement Accounts can have an important effect on the contribution of these accounts to retirement ...