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John Beshears
John Beshears
Research Associate
Harvard University
Harvard Business School
Programs
Economics of Aging
Contact
jbeshears@hbs.edu
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http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=8943
Projects
Center for Aging and Health Research
Retirement and Disability Research Center
Fellowships on Consumer Financial Management
Grants
Default Home Delivery of Prescription Medicines
A Commitment Device for Medication Adherence Among HIV Patients
Planning Prompts for Preemptive Screenings
The Effect of Proximity on Flu-Shot Participation
Healthy Habit Mailer and Flu-Shot Participation
Predicting Time Series: Intuitive Forecasting
The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions
Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking?
Incentives and Messaging Providers to Increase Medication Adherence
Liquidity in a Socially Optimal Retirement Savings System
Deciding Now to Save More Later
The Total Savings Impact of Automatic Enrollment
Creating Exercise Habits through Incentives for Routines
NB18-09: Late-Life Income from Pre-Retirement to Death: Evidence from IRS Tax Data
NB19-06: Changes Across Birth Cohorts in Income Adequacy from Pre-Retirement to Death: Evidence from IRS Tax Data
NB20-04: Comparing Trends in Late-Life Income Across Data Sets
