Defined Contribution Plans, Defined Benefit Plans, and the Accumulation of Retirement Wealth

James Poterba, Joshua Rauh, Steven Venti, David Wise

NBER Working Paper No. 12597
Issued in October 2006

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We are extremely grateful to Tonja Bowen for extraordinary and tireless research assistance, to Gary Engelhardt and Anil Kumar for graciously providing us with tabulations from their HRS Defined Contribution Plan imputation algorithm, to Paul Bingley, Peter Diamond, Gary Engelhardt, Jon Gruber, Helena Stolyarova, and many seminar participants for helpful comments, and to the National Institute of Aging for research support under grant number P01 AG005842. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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