caa a22 4500 378936328 CHVBK 20180305123641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040621xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1538-0645.1262 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1538-0645.1262 Hrung Warren B. 1Office of Tax Analysis, US Department of the Treasury, whrung@yahoo.com Information, the Introduction of Roths, and IRA Participation [Elektronische Daten] [Warren B. Hrung] This study investigates the issue of whether part of the increase in total IRA contributions from 1997 to 1998 can be attributed to increased advertising due to the introduction of Roth IRAs in 1998. In this study, the use of a tax preparer will proxy for exposure to information regarding IRAs. A preparer is expected to have less of an influence on IRA participation in 1998 relative to 1997. I find evidence supporting this prediction amongst taxpayers eligible for an IRA contribution in both 1997 and 1998. However, I also find evidence suggesting that more information would have led to a potentially sizable increase in participation for taxpayers newly eligible for an IRA contribution in 1998. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston H20, D12 nationallicence Individual Retirement Accounts nationallicence tax preparers nationallicence advertising nationallicence Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 3/1(2004-06-21) 3:1 2004 3 bejeap https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0645.1262 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0645.1262 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hrung Warren B. 1Office of Tax Analysis, US Department of the Treasury, whrung@yahoo.com NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 3/1(2004-06-21) 3:1 2004 3 bejeap CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter