Saving for retirement on the path of least resistance

Behavioral Public Finance

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 304-351

  Choi, James J ^a   Laibson, David ^b   Madrian, Brigitte C ^c   Metrick, Andrew ^c  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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