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| John Beshears | David Laibson | Brigitte C. Madrian
Potential vs. realized savings under automatic enrollment. John Beshears, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian, July 2018, Paper, "Previous research has documented the powerful impact that automatic enrollment has on retirement savings outcomes. When a savings plan’s default—the option that is implemented on behalf of any employees that do not actively elect an alternative option—is changed from not participating in the plan to contributing a…
| John Beshears | David Laibson | Brigitte C. Madrian
Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt. John Beshears, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian, December 6, 2017, Paper, "How much of the retirement savings induced by automatic enrollment is offset by increased borrowing outside the retirement savings plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling its newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) at a default…