Publications

Ravit Rubinstein-Levi and Haim Kedar-Levy

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March 2019

Financial illiteracy, irrational thinking prevents people from saving for retirement​

Most people in Western countries fail to plan sufficiently for retirement. As a result, most OECD countries will be faced in coming years with large social security expenditures to support aging populations at a time of expanding life-expectancy.

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