Resource Links

Academic Centers
  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
Government & Industrial Centers
  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
Research Journals
  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
Topical Reports
Hidden content
Computing Resources
  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)
Data Sources
  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
Blogs and Podcasts
  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