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The Wharton School’s Olivia S. Mitchell has been named EBRI’s Lillywhite Award Winner. Click here to read the full article from Pensions & Investments.

The Wharton School’s Dr. Olivia S Mitchell was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Goethe University Frankfurt on May 24th, 2017. Click here to view the full press release.

The Pension Research Council is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with CEPAR at the University of New South Wales (Australia), and Netspar at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), to launch the International Network for Pensions, Aging, and Retirement Research (INPARR). Click here for the full press release.

According to a study conducted by Olivia Mitchell and Donald Kleim at The Wharton School, less is more when it comes to 401(k) investment options. Click here to find out more.

The Pension Research Council, in collaboration with CEPAR, Netspar and the OECD, held a conference on pensions at the OECD headquarters in Paris on June 8, 2016. Click here to see the agenda.

Published on Sep 22, 2015 On September 18, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings explored lessons from behavioral economics for fiscal and monetary policy with leading scholars in the field, who shared their findings and suggestions for policy. http://www.brookings.edu/events/2015/09/18-policy-lessons-behavioral-economics

Two of the nation's leading authorities in retirement research, the  TIAA-CREF Institute and the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, today publicly released several research papers that promote financial well-being and sound retirement planning. From left: Roger Ferguson, Jr., TIAA-CREF; U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson;…Read More

A recent study, “Lessons for Public Pensions from Utah’s Move to Pension Choice,” showed that many public sector workers offered less generous pensions did not boost their supplemental saving to make up for it. Robert L. Clark (Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University); Olivia S. Mitchell (Wharton…Read More

Two-fifths of workers allowed to borrow from their plans have done so within the past five years, according to a recent Pension Research Council study, “Borrowing from the Future: 401(k) Plan Loans and Loan Defaults .” Co-authors Timothy Lu Jun, Olivia S. Mitchell, Steve Utkus, and Jean Young also show…Read More

Robert Powell recently interviewed Olivia S. Mitchell, Wharton Professor of Insurance/Risk Management & Applied Economics/Policy, and Director of the Pension Research Council, to discuss solutions for America’s retirement system problems. Dr. Mitchell and a few of the country’s other leading retirement experts outlined several ways to help Americans preserve their…Read More