🎓 Say hello to our newest network member @janaschuetz.bsky.social from Jönköping University. Her research focuses on #pension and #gender economics. 👷♀️👷♂️
Learn more about her work: sites.google.com/view/janasch...
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jana-schu...
More info: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ne...
The paper is available here:
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We are very grateful to The Hamrin Foundation for supporting our research on digital tools in retirement planning.
Overall, the annual pension statement seems to prompt people to engage with retirement planning by acting as a recurring reminder. It also encourages certain individuals to initiate their pension claims.
2️⃣ The spike is short-lived and fades within four weeks, but similar spikes occur each year.
3️⃣ The number of actual pension claims increases by 33% in the week that the statement is received.
Main results:
1️⃣ There is a strong and immediate increase in planning activity, as measured by registrations and forecasts on the dashboard. People of all ages, genders, incomes and levels of education respond.
Using the staggered regional rollout of the statement and detailed weekly user data from the national pension dashboard, minPension, we examine the impact of this large-scale, personalised, recurring communication on retirement planning and pension claiming.
The figure illustrates the effect of the annual pension statement on users' engagement with the pension dashboard. It displays descriptive trends by region and event-study estimates for registration and forecast probability.
📢 New Working Paper: "A Reminder That Never Gets Old: Behavioral Effects of an Annual Pension Statement"
Happy to share our new working paper (with Johannes Hagen, Amedeus Malisa and Andrea Schneider), where we examine the effects of Sweden's annual pension statement, the Orange Envelope.
Welcome to the FIT Seminar with Johannes Hagen on Wed 5 Nov at 1:00 – 2:00 pm (EET) on site or online!
Theme: Do annual pension statements affect retirement planning?
Venue: Tampere University Pinni B4141
Zoom: tuni.zoom.us/j/65804313290
Grattis!
Earlier this week, I attended the @vfsecon.bsky.social conference in Cologne, where I had the chance to present my research in a great session on pensions. A personal highlight was the Thünen Lecture by Ulrike Malmendier, who gave a fascinating talk on how personal experiences shape decisions.
📚 📣 Are you in the Stockholm area on September 22nd? Come discuss new research about gender gaps in academia at Stockholm University! Email me to sign up. Program below!
🚀Be part of the next round of the Women in Economics Mentoring Programme — a unique opportunity that connects early-career women economists with experienced mentors.
🎯 Programme duration: October 2025 – July 2026
📆 Deadline to apply: August 31st
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Had a great time in Naples last week at the annual conference of the European Society for Population Economics. So many interesting presentation and discussions. Huge thanks to the organizers! #ESPE2025
Had a great time discussing pension dashboards and retirement behavior with academics and practitioners from all over Europe and the US last week in Jönköping. Lots of interesting presentations, discussions and valuable feedback!
📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
Workshop on the economics of ageing and pensions
tinyurl.com/2wez4wp7
Where? Berlin @wzb.bsky.social 🐻
When? November 20-21 November 🍂
For whom? Researchers at all stages in their career
Anything else? Accomodation & travel cost will be covered 🚅🏨
Please circulate!
We find that providing information about gender differences in numeracy skills increases male respondents' confidence, but has no effect on female respondents.
We observe no significant effect of information about age differences.
We conducted a survey experiment in which participants were randomly exposed to information about age or gender differences in numeracy.
We analyse how this affects their financial literacy and confidence, and the implications for investment and savings decisions.
❓How does stereotype salience affect confidence in financial literacy?
Julia Peter (@uni-jena.de) and I address this question in our new working paper:
“Stereotypes, financial literacy, and confidence: An information provision experiment”
ideas.repec.org/p/jrp/jrpwrp...
🚨 FINAL REMINDER: deadline for submissions ends TODAY, 15th of May 🚨
We're so much looking forward to the workshop, featuring keynotes by Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🤩 Don't miss to send your best papers using field experiments! 🥳
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REMINDER: Less than a week to submit to our Workshop on Field Experiments. Please send your best papers and spread the word 🙂🙏🏻💪🏻🚀
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We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵
Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin
📣 We’re hiring! 📣
Join @woessmann.bsky.social and my team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social as a PhD student to conduct super-exciting field experiments in the Economics of Education 🤩🚀
Reach out if you have any questions! 💪🏻🙏🏻
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So cool, congratulations!
Coming up: WEI 2025 - the popular Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki in August with Magne Mogstad & Stephen Machin as keynote speakers!
Submit your paper by 30 March!
verotutkimus.fi/en/wei2025/
Organisers:@tuomaskosonen.bsky.social @oskarnskans.bsky.social
I got mine on Friday (which was earlier than expected), but I know that some German cities could only start sending them out on Friday, so it really seems to depend on where you had to register ... Fingers crossed you'll get them very soon!
📅 One week left to submit your papers to the Workshop on Pension Dashboards and Retirement Behavior
**New working paper**
How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students?
Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.
Vacation? 😅
