As more and more baby boomers move into retirement, there is a growing body of scholars who are fascinated with research related to this topic. One such group of scholars exists at Boston College, which serves as the home to the Center for Retirement Research. In a nutshell, their goals are "to promote research on retirement issues, to transmit new findings to a broad audience, to help train new scholars, and to expand access to valuable data resources." Casual visitors may wish to click on the "About the Center" area for a brief overview, and then move on to the "Recent Publications" area. Here they will find reports titled "The Decline of Career Employment", "The Housing Bubble and Retirement Security", and many others. In their "Special Projects" area, visitors can play the "Get Rich Slow" game, which is meant to serve a form of motivation for active engagement in retirement planning. The site is rounded out by a "Data" area which contains a number of germane data sets for scholars, including those that detail home ownership by age and the average retirement age for men during the period 1961 to 2004.
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