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Pill, Patch or Shot? Subjective Expectations and Birth Control Choice
Delavande, Adeline - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
When choosing a contraception method, women base their decisions on their subjective expectations about the realizations of method-related outcomes. Examples of such outcomes include getting pregnant, contracting a sexually transmitted disease (STD) or experiencing side effects. By conducting a...
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Does Information Increase Political Support for Pension Reform?
Boeri, Tito; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
An opinion poll on a representative sample of Italian citizens suggests that it does. We focus on reforms that would lengthen retirement age and/or cut pension benefits. After controlling for individual features of the respondent, we find that individuals who are more informed about the costs...
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The Impact of Changing Demographics and Pensions on The Demand for Housing and Financial Assets
Cerny, Ales; Miles, David K; Schmidt, Lubomir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Using a calibrated OLG model with several sources of uncertainty we find that the impact of ageing and of reform of …
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Retirement Expectations, Pension Reforms and Their Effect on Private Wealth Accumulation
Bottazzi, Renata; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households’ expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth accumulation decisions exploiting a decade of Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation in expected pension wealth. Two parameters are crucial to estimate pension...
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The Portfolio Effect of Pension Reforms
Bottazzi, Renata; Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We estimate the portfolio effect of changes in social security wealth exploiting a decade of Italian pension reforms as a source of exogenous variation. The Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth records detailed portfolio data and elicits expectations of retirement outcomes, thus...
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Population, Pensions and Endogenous Economic Growth
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
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Framing Effects in Political Decision Making: Evidence From a Natural Voting Experiment
Bütler, Monika; Maréchal, Michel André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper analyzes a recent ballot in which two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based on this unique natural experiment, the existence of...
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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Frías, Judith A; Kumler, Todd; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...
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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James; Karlan, Dean S.; Pradhan, Menno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked … money box. After nine months, both programs had significant impacts on savings behavior relative to the control group …, mostly because children moved savings from home to school. We observed few other impacts. We do find that financial education …
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The Crisis of Germany's Pension Insurance System and How It Can Be Resolved
Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
crisis. The paper recommends obligatory private savings at a variable rate where the time path of the savings rate is chosen …
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