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Working Paper
December 2022, No. 22-12

The three leading explanations for the "retirement savings puzzle" are the desire to insure against uncertain lifespans and medical expenses, the desire to leave bequests to one's heirs, and the desire to remain in one's own home. We discuss the empirical strategies used to differentiate these motivations.

Eric French, John Bailey Jones and Rory McGee

Podcast
Dec. 14, 2022

Adam Scavette provides an approach to interpreting news coverage of the economy and applies that framework to the major economic stories of 2022. Scavette is a regional economist based at the Baltimore, Md., branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.