State Savings Initiatives: Lessons from California and Connecticut

* Anek Belbase is senior research project manager at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR). Alicia H. Munnell is director of the CRR and the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Nari Rhee is the manager of the Retirement Security Program at the University of California at Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher is a research economist at the CRR. The authors wish to thank Genevieve Ballinger with the state of Connecticut and the retirement savings team at The Pew Charitable Trusts for helpful comments. Introduction