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Financial advisers and retirement experts say the best advice they can give workers to prepare for old age is to save, save, save. But two young researchers might argue this advice isn’t sensitive to the hurdles that Black and Hispanic workers face when they try to save. At a recent panel discussion, the researchers presented…

Working together on their budget

Abstract This paper examines transfers of time and money between retirees and their children.  It uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to test whether numbers of children, parent-child wealth differentials, geographic proximity, and gender contribute to racial and ethnic differences in transfers of time and money between retirement-aged adults and their children. …