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DAVID A.WISE is the John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has written extensively about the saving effect of personal retirement programs such as Individual Retirement Accounts and 401(k) plans in the United States, and more recently has been evaluating the implications of the rapid spread of these programs, which now are the dominant form of saving for retirement in the United States. He is currently engaged in an ongoing analysis of the retirement incentives in public social security programs around the world and has begun work on the drawdown of personal retirement account assets. He has also written extensively on the retirement incentives of defined benefit pension programs in the United States. In addition, he has been analyzing the financial implications of housing wealth for the elderly, social security reform, and other economics of aging issues.
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Aging Program National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138