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Do Required Minimum Distribution 401(k) Rules Matter, and For Whom? Insights from a Lifecycle Model / Vanya Horneff, Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horneff, Vanya.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28490.
- NBER working paper series no. w28490
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Do Required Minimum Distribution 401
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- Tax-qualified vehicles helped U.S. private-sector workers accumulate $25Tr in retirement assets. An often-overlooked important institutional feature shaping decumulations from these retirement plans is the "Required Minimum Distribution" (RMD) regulation, requiring retirees to withdraw a minimum fraction from their retirement accounts or pay excise taxes on withdrawal shortfalls. Our calibrated lifecycle model measures the impact of RMD rules on financial behavior of heterogeneous households during their worklives and retirement. We show that proposed reforms to delay or eliminate the RMD rules should have little effects on consumption profiles but more impact on withdrawals and tax payments for households with bequest motives.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2021.
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