Long-term Care Costs and the National Retirement Risk Index
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* Alicia H. Munnell is the Director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) and the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Anthony Webb is a research economist at the CRR. Francesca Golub-Sass and Dan Muldoon are research associates at the CRR. The Center gratefully acknowledges Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company for its exclusive financial support of the National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI). This brief provides updated NRRI results; prior Index-related publications are available at http://crr.bc.edu. The authors would like to thank Gary Burtless, Robert Clark, and Tim Poland for helpful comments. Introduction
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