Resource Links

[spoiler title=”Academic Centers” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”plus” anchor=”” class=””]
  1. American College Center for Retirement Income
  2. Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
  3. Duke Center for Population Health and Aging
  4. Georgetown Center for Retirement Initiatives
  5. Pension Research Council of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  6. Stanford Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging
  7. Stanford Center on Longevity
  8. University of California at Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
  9. University of Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center
  10. University of Wisconsin Center for Financial Security
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  1. American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
  2. Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association Retirement Research Center
  3. U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA)
  4. Society of Actuaries Aging and Retirement Research Reports
  5. National Association of Personal Financial Advisors
  6. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Retirement Research Center
  7. Pew Research Center (PEW) on Retirement
  8. RAND Center for the Study of Aging
  9. The Board of Pensions
  10. U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Information on Retirement Plans
[/spoiler] [spoiler title=”Research Journals” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”plus” anchor=”” class=””]
  1. Rankings, with Links: 50 Finance Journals
  2. Journal of Financial Planning
  3. Journal of Investing
  4. Journal of Investment Strategies
  5. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
  6. Journal of Portfolio Management
  7. Journal of Retirement
  8. Retirement Income Journal
  9. Retirement Management Journal
  10. Work, Aging and Retirement
[/spoiler] [spoiler title=”Retirement Books” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”plus” anchor=”” class=””]
  1. Advanced Retirement Income Planning
  2. Are You a Stock or a Bond?
  3. Control Your Retirement Destiny
  4. Financial Planning Diagnostics
  5. Financial Planning Literacy
  6. Financial Terms Dictionary
  7. How Much Can I Spend in Retirement?
  8. Index Funds and ETFs
  9. IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans
  10. King William’s Tontine
  11. Life Annuities
  12. Lifetime Financial Advice
  13. Long-Term Care
  14. Longevity Insurance for a Biological Age
  15. Longevity Risk and Retirement Income Planning
  16. Pensionize Your Nest Egg
  17. Redefining Financial Literacy
  18. Replace Retirement
  19. Retirement Communities 101
  20. Retirement Income Recipes in R
  21. Retirement Portfolios
  22. Retirement Portfolios Workbook
  23. Reverse Mortgages
  24. Safety-First Retirement Planning
  25. Shifting Gears
  26. Social Security & Medicare Benefits Guide
  27. Social Security Sense
  28. Strategic Financial Planning over the Lifecycle
  29. The Day the King Defaulted
  30. Where to Retire
[/spoiler] [spoiler title=”Computing Resources” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”plus” anchor=”” class=””]
  1. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (with free R download)
  2. RStudio (with free downloads)
  3. R for Data Science
  4. Data Science with R: A Resource Compendium
  5. R Package: LifeContingencies
  6. R Shiny App: A Retirement Simulation
  7. FlowingData: A Life Expectancy Simulation
  8. The Flexible Retirement Planner: A Stand-alone Simulation
  9. R-MAP Planner: an Excel-based (and fee-based) Retirement Planner
  10. The Ultimate Guide to Google Sheets (a free online spreadsheet)
[/spoiler] [spoiler title=”Data Sources” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”plus” anchor=”” class=””]
  1. Data.Gov Retirement Datasets
  2. DataWorld Retirement Datasets
  3. Public Plans Data Site
  4. Health and Retirement Study
  5. Quandl Financial Data
  6. The New York Fed
  7. The St. Louis Fed
  8. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
  9. U.S. Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-related Statistics
  10. U.S. Federal Reserve Data
[/spoiler] [spoiler title=”Blogs and Podcasts” open=”no” style=”default” icon=”plus” anchor=”” class=””]
  1. Aging with Dignity
  2. Getting Your Financial Ducks in a Row
  3. Nerd’s Eye View
  4. New Retirement
  5. Retirement Researcher Blog
  6. The Balance
  7. The Oblivious Investor
  8. The Retirement Answer Man
  9. The Retirement Cafe
  10. The Retirement Manifesto
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