Olivia S. Mitchell

Joe and I overlapped at UW-Madison - he will be missed! Joseph Cordes Obituary gwtoday.gwu.edu/memoriam-josep…

President Trump says new child savings accounts can build #generationalwealth, but @Wharton economist @OS_Mitchell emphasizes that consistent contributions and #longterminvesting are key to realizing meaningful rewards. bit.ly/3MY32q8

Spring is just around the corner in Philly 😁

Our new study "Optimizing #retirement financial strategies: Integrating #annnuities, #definedcontributionplans, and #longtermcare costs" gets a new webpage! Thanks to TIAA! tiaa.org/public/institu…

What? "Fed researchers should be punished for Trump tariff analysis" thehill.com/business/57437…

It's Deeply distressing that #Congress can't get it together to #fixSocialSecurity! I tend to agree with @RominaBoccia - "lawmakers should focus reforms where they do the least harm and the most good." thedailyeconomy.org/article/to-sav…

READ Financial regret at older ages and longevity awareness Published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance By Abigail Hurwitz & Olivia S. Mitchell (PARC Research Associate) doi.org/10.1111/jori.7…

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

Are female economists treated differently than male economists in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023. They didn’t rely on surveys or self-reports. Instead, what they did was really cool: They had humans and LLMs code audio recordings of talks to measure: -Who interrupts -How often they interrupt -When interruptions occur -Whether interruptions are neutral or adversarial Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20%. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature These gaps persist even after controlling for: -Field -Topic -Presenter seniority -Audience size Importantly, talks by women often draw larger and more diverse audiences. So pattern this isn’t about lower engagement. Bottom line: Economics seminar culture isn’t gender-neutral. In elite research settings, women face systematically different treatment that could affect their evaluation, visibility, and career trajectories.

This confirms my @JRI paper w/ @AbigailHurwitzon 'Financial Regret at Older Ages' planadviser.com/more-than-half…

More Than Half of Recent Retirees Report Regrets Over How They Saved for Retirement planadviser.com/more-than-half…

This report from #Nationwide confirms my work with @AbigailHurwitz on 'Financial Regret at Older Ages:' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…. planadviser.com/more-than-half…

In the last 20 years, the share of tenured Harvard professors who keep working after they turn 74 has increased from 3% to 43%, according to the Crimson. (via @StefanFSchubert's fantastic newsletter)

I totally agree! "If you don't budget, you can't govern." crfb.org/press-releases…

Note that Social Security’s Trustees assume a similar fertility recovery for their (already pretty scary) projections of Social Security’s finances. If birth rates don’t rise, the funding gap rises by about 1/5th. Have a great day.

Video posted: NY FRB conference on "An Economy That Works for All: Financial Inclusion." My session on Advancing #FinancialLiteracy & #EconomicEducation included Steve Bumbaugh, Council for Economic Education; Daniel Mangrum, FRB; and me (starts @ 31"). newyorkfed.org/newsevents/eve…

In a recent follow-up article for WSJ, she addresses readers’ concerns about cost, flexibility, and overall appeal.

The Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that Great Gray Trust has rejoined the Council as an Associate Level Member for 2026. bit.ly/4ssq1cR

Happy to post our most recent blog from the Pension Research Council! …sionresearchcouncil.wharton.upenn.edu/blog/beshears-…

Fascinating (& terrifying) article published in Science, on AI-assisted writing of scientific manuscripts. Authors find evidence of: 1) accelerated research output due to LLMs 2) especially true of non-native English speakers 3) a complete reversal in correlation between writing complexity and publishability (!) science.org/doi/abs/10.112…