%0 Book Section %B Reimagining Pensions: The Next 40 Years %D 2016 %T Are Retirees Falling Short? Reconciling the Conflicting Evidence %A Alicia H. Munnell %A Matthew S. Rutledge %A Anthony Webb %E Olivia S. Mitchell %E Shea, Richard C. %K Net Worth and Assets %K Retirement Planning and Satisfaction %X This paper examines conflicting assessments of whether people will have adequate retirement income to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living. The studies that it examines use data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and the HRS supplement Consumption and Activities Mail Survey (CAMS). Critical components of the analysis are behavioral assumptions about household consumption patterns when children leave home and when households retire. A key limitation is that the behavioral assumptions in the different studies are based on incomplete knowledge of actual household behavior. %B Reimagining Pensions: The Next 40 Years %I Oxford University Press %C Oxford, United Kingdom %P 11-36 %G eng %4 household consumption/retirement preparedness/pre-retirement standard of living %! Are Retirees Falling Short? Reconciling the Conflicting Evidence