Sarah is Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol. Her research interests concern the empirical analysis of public policy, including pro-social behaviour, retirement and pensions. Her past work encompasses retirement and the employment of older workers and the link between pension incentives and retirement, as well as saving and asset-holding and charitable giving and volunteering.
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 2007
MSc Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1994
BA (First Class Honours) Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford, 1992
Using a sample of individuals from the UK Retirement Survey, the paper models the probability of retirement in terms of the incentives underlying the individual's pension plan as well as other socio-economic factors.
Using a sample of individuals aged 55 and over from the UK Retirement Survey, this paper models the probability of retirement in terms of the incentives underlying the individual\'s pension plan as well as other socio-economic factors.
Should the UK switch from a pay-as-you-go to a funded pension scheme? Continuing her discussion of this subject, Sarah Smith, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies investigates the pros and cons.
In the first of two articles, Sarah Smith of the Institute for Fiscal Studies explores aspects of the pension problem faced by many OECD countries with ageing populations.
In this paper we describe the information available in the Retirement Survey, together with other sources of data that might be used by someone wanting to study retirement behaviour in the UK.
This paper addresses whether households save enough for their retirement. For successive date-of-birth cohorts we analyze income and expenditure patterns around the time of retirement.
The late 1980s saw a dramatic fall in personal saving rates in Britain and the United States which attracted the attention of academics and policymakers alike.
