How Much Choice is Too Much? Contributions to 401(k) Retirement Plans

Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Sethi Iyengar, Sheena ^a   Huberman, Gur ^b   Jiang, Gur ^a  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b Graduate School of Business Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

401(k) retirement plans; Choice; Investment; Motivation; Pension plans; Plan contributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917423285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199273391.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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