Nikolai Roussanov – författare

Over the last decade, behavioral research has revolutionized our understanding of financial decision-making, reshaping how we approach retirement planning. Bringing together leading scholars from economics, finance, and psychology, this volume explores the intricate relationship between human behavior and financial security in later life and uncovers innovative ways to craft retirement strategies that are both financially sound and psychologically intuitive. Across three sections, chapter authors unpack the psychological, social, and economic factors that influence saving patterns, investment behavior and strategies, and spending habits and challenges among retirees. Including key studies, practical examples, and real-world applications, the volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the forces shaping retirement outcomes in today's complex financial landscape. Timely, insightful, and thoroughly researched, Retirement Saving, Investment, and Spending is an essential resource for economists, policymakers, financial advisors, and investment professionals eager to design smarter, more effective retirement plans.This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Global population aging is transforming how societies think about longevity, health, work, and financial security. As people live longer, responsibility for retirement is increasingly shifting to individuals and households, and the risks and rewards of longer lives are being reshaped in profound ways. The Future of Healthy Aging and Successful Retirement explores what these changes mean for healthy aging and successful retirement in the decades ahead. Surya Kolluri, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Nikolai Roussanov bring together leading experts from economics, public policy, and health sciences to examine how health, wealth, and work interact over the life-course. Contributors address a wide range of issues, including changing mortality patterns and healthspan, cognitive aging and financial decision-making, retirement income and pension design, healthcare and long-term care costs, caregiving, and the evolving role of older workers in a technology-driven economy. Across countries and institutional settings, the book highlights how individuals, employers, and policymakers shape outcomes at older ages. It also draws attention to widening inequalities in later life, particularly as lower- and middle-income households face growing uncertainty in preparing for retirement.By combining new evidence with forward-looking perspectives, this volume offers a clear and accessible framework for understanding the challenges and opportunities of aging societies--and for promoting longer, healthier, and more secure retirements.This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Many older Americans today are poorly prepared to finance their retirement years, and such under-preparedness is especially acute for members of disadvantaged racial and ethnic minority groups. Black and Hispanic families, for example, have only a quarter of the amount of net private wealth (assets minus liabilities) compared to White families. Moreover, racial wealth gaps have not diminished much in the past four decades, in part because Whites tend to save more in and withdraw less from employer-sponsored retirement plans than do their Black and Hispanic counterparts. The studies herein provide a range of perspectives on the causes and consequences of retirement wealth inequality, along with suggested opportunities to close the gaps. The contributors explore new datasets, analyze historical trends in income and wealth disparities, and evaluate alternative wealth and inequality measures. They also evaluate the roles of differential access to financial, housing, and human capital, and the role of the social security program. While the latter is a great equalizer, narrowing racial gaps considerably, the program faces insolvency and, without reform, it will be unable to pay full scheduled benefits within a decade.This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Many older Americans today are poorly prepared to finance their retirement years, and such under-preparedness is especially acute for members of disadvantaged racial and ethnic minority groups. Black and Hispanic families, for example, have only a quarter of the amount of net private wealth (assets minus liabilities) compared to White families. Moreover, racial wealth gaps have not diminished much in the past four decades, in part because Whites tend to save more in and withdraw less from employer-sponsored retirement plans than do their Black and Hispanic counterparts. The studies herein provide a range of perspectives on the causes and consequences of retirement wealth inequality, along with suggested opportunities to close the gaps. The contributors explore new datasets, analyze historical trends in income and wealth disparities, and evaluate alternative wealth and inequality measures. They also evaluate the roles of differential access to financial, housing, and human capital, and the role of the social security program. While the latter is a great equalizer, narrowing racial gaps considerably, the program faces insolvency and, without reform, it will be unable to pay full scheduled benefits within a decade.This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.