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Olivia S. Mitchell

Olivia S. Mitchell is IFEBP Professor of Insurance and Risk Management in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Titles by This Author

The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement

By Jeffrey R. Brown, Olivia S. Mitchell, James M. Poterba and Mark J. Warshawsky

Dramatic advances in life expectancy mean that today's retirees must plan on living into their eighties, their nineties, and even beyond. Longer life expectancies are the symbol of a prosperous society, but this progress also means that some retirees will need to plan conservatively and cut back substantially on their living standards or risk living so long that they exhaust their resources. This book examines the role that life annuities can play in helping people protect themselves against such outcomes.

Retirement, Pensions, and Social Security

By Gary S. Fields and Olivia S. Mitchell

American workers are retiring earlier, living longer, and receiving greater retirement benefits for each year out of the labor force than ever before, which has created serious financial pressures on the nation's Social Security system and generated an intense and often heated debate.