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Future You

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Importance of Saving for the Future

When people are exposed to their future selves, they express a little more desire to save for the future. People who got exposed end up being about 16% more likely to make a contribution. These are relatively small effects, but as a social scientist, that excites me because anything we can do to move the needle that ends up compounding over time is quite important.

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