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Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt / John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, William L. Skimmyhorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beshears, John.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25876.
- NBER working paper series no. w25876
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- Does automatic enrollment into a retirement plan increase borrowing outside the plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan. Four years after hire, automatic enrollment causes no significant change in credit scores (point estimate 0.001 standard deviations) or debt balances excluding auto loans and first mortgages (point estimate -0.6% of annual salary). We also find no significant increase in auto loan and first mortgage balances in our main regression specification, although the estimated increases in these categories are economically and statistically significant in alternative specifications.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2019.
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