Recent Publications:
Books
Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans, co-authored with Tony James (Disruption Books, 2016)
How to Retire with Enough Money and How to Know What Enough Is (Workman Publishing, 2015)
Articles and Book Chapters
“The Distribution of Time in Retirement: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Survey.” With Anthony Webb. Work, Aging and Retirement. 2018.
“The Labor Consequences of Financializing Pensions.” With Amanda Novello. In The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism. Edited by Kevin Skerrett, Chris Roberts, Johanna Weststar, Simon Archer. Labor and Employment Research Association, LERA Research Volume. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2018.
“Innovations in Protecting the Old: Mostly Social Insurance and Some Assets." In The Welfare State Revisited. Edited by José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University Press 2018
“Earnings Volatility and 401(k) Contributions.” With Joelle Saad-Lesler and Gayle Reznik. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. 2017.
"Explaining the Decline in the Offer Rate of Employer Retirement Plans Between 2003 and 2012," with Joelle Saad-Lessler, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015.
"The Surprising Equality of Retirement Time: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey," co-authored with Anthony Bonen, ed. by Danielle M. Jaffe, The Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, 2014.
"Private Pensions," in The Oxford Handbook of US Social Policy, ed. Daniel Beland and Christopher Howard (Oxford University Press, 2014).
"Are US Workers Ready for Retirement? Trends in Plan Sponsorship, Participation and Preparedness," with Joelle Saad-Lessler & Kate Bahn, Journal of Pension Benefits, 2014.
"Retirement Security Worse on ERISA's 40th Anniversary," Drexel Law Review, 2014.
“How to Supplement Social Security Fairly and Effectively," Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 2010.
"The macroeconomic stabilisation effects of Social Security and 401(k) plans," with Joelle Saad-Lessler & Eloy Fisher, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2012.