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ELSA analysis

Funded by: Pensions Commission

Part of: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Date started: 01 January 2004

This research involved some secondary analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) to allow the Pensions Commission to carry out comparisons of a MORI survey with the ELSA data, to provide additional information on the pensions arrangements of LSA respondents and to provide additional information on the expectations of ELSA respondents.

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07 February 2011

IFS Working Papers

How much do lifetime earnings explain retirement resources?

We use a unique dataset to construct measures of lifetime earnings and examine how these relate to financial resources in retirement.

21 October 2010

Presentations

Financial circumstances and consumption

These slides were delivered at the ELSA Wave 4 launch, The Royal Society, London.

01 October 2010

Book Chapters

Financial circumstances and consumption

This is a chapter of the wave 4 analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

01 October 2010

Book Chapters

Employment, retirement and pensions

This is a chapter of the wave 4 analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

01 March 2009

Journal Articles

Health disadvantage in US adults aged 50 to 74 years: a comparison of the health of rich and poor Americans with that of Europeans

We compared the health of older US, English, and other European adults, stratified by wealth.

13 August 2007

IFS Working Papers

Better prepared for retirement? Using panel data to improve wealth estimates of ELSA respondents

This paper compares the key assumptions underpinning estimates of the pension wealth of ELSA respondents to outcomes over the period from 2002-03 to 2004-05.

01 June 2007

Journal Articles

Understanding pensions: cognitive function, numerical ability and retirement saving

In a world of declining state pension provision, it is becoming increasingly important that individuals are able to understand the financial choices they face and can choose savings products, portfolios and contribution rates accordingly.

07 July 2006

Presentations

Labour market transitions

Presentation at the launch of the report covering the second wave of the ELSA survey.

07 July 2006

Presentations

Expenditure and consumption

Presentation at the launch of the report covering the second wave of the ELSA survey.

07 July 2006

IFS Press Releases

Longitudinal study of ageing reveals health and wealth relationship

Individuals who are 5059 years-old and from the poorest fifth of the population are over 10 times more likely to die than their peers from the richest fifth.

11 October 2005

Presentations

Prepared for retirement?

These are the slides from the presentation about the adequacy of retirement saving in the England.

11 October 2005

IFS Press Releases

Are retirement resources adequate?

The vast majority of the next generation of pensioners will have resources in excess of the adequacy benchmarks typically used in the policy debate but many may not get as much private pension income as they expect.

11 October 2005

IFS Reports

Prepared for retirement? The adequacy and distribution of retirement resources in England

This report provides new empirical evidence on the level and distribution of retirement saving in England.

01 June 2004

External publications

Not so brief lives: longevity expectations and wellbeing in retirement

This chapter is part of a pamplet looking at the seven ages of man (and woman) in the modern era.

01 December 2003

Book Chapters

Socio-economic position

Possibly one of the most pressing concerns in the debate on the ageing population is whether individuals will have adequate economic resources to maintain sufficient standards of living in retirement, and, if not, what the government can provide, in terms of health care and retirement income, to meet the needs of a population with an increasing fraction of older individuals.

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Consumption and demand

Expectations, psychosocial measures and life experiences

Financial resources

Labour supply

Pensions and retirement

Saving and wealth

James Banks

Carl Emmerson

Zoë Oldfield

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