Choice, Behavior, and Retirement Saving

The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Venti, Steven F ^a,b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Consumer choice; Conventional models; Models of retirement; Retirement saving; Saving decision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924066678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199272464.003.0030     Document Type: Chapter

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