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Savings, pensions and retirement
Funded by: Saving Consortium
Date started: 01 May 2004
This project investigates the nature of retirement saving. In particular we make use of the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing to examine the determinants of retirement saving and retirement ages. This knowledge will be important to help the government and pensions companies plan their policies.

Funding for the project comes from a consortium of organisations with an interest in pensions policy. These are:

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IFS Working Papers
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Book Chapters
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IFS Reports
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IFS Working Papers
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IFS Working Papers
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This paper explains the methodology used for calculating pension wealth for all individuals in the first wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).

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