From Demographics to Survey Anchors: Evaluating LLM Agents for Modeling Retirement Attitudes

In three linesComparative study of LLM agents predicting responses to the SHARE survey (health, ageing, retirement in Europe). Agents based solely on demographic data (age, income, education, etc.) exhibit central tendency bias and unrealistic accuracy, while survey-anchored agents better reproduce interactions between retirement planning factors.

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