Study: Many Americans die with 'virtually no financial assets'

Friday, August 3, 2012 - 06:00 in Psychology & Sociology

It is a central worry of many Americans: not having enough money to live comfortably in old age. Now an innovative paper co-authored by an MIT economist shows that a large portion of America’s older population has very little savings in bank accounts, stocks and bonds, and dies “with virtually no financial assets” to their names.

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