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MEANS-TESTED INCOME SUPPORT, PORTFOLIO CHOICE AND DECUMULATION IN RETIREMENT
Thorp, Susan; Hulley, Hardy; McKibbin, Rebecca; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
wealth for pensioner households show evidence of more rapid spending early in retirement. However they also show that better …-off households continue to accumulate, even when facing a steeper implicit tax rate on wealth than applies to poorer households …. Wealthier households also hold riskier portfolios. Results from tests for Lorenz dominance of the panel wealth distribution show …
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Offsets to compulsory superannuation: do people consciously choose their level of retirement saving?
Shanker, Akshay; Vidler, Sacha - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
Australian employers are obliged by law to make a minimum compulsory contribution as a proportion of salaries into employees’ superannuation (pension) funds. Individuals can also make voluntary contributions on top of the compulsory amount. We examine voluntary contributions amongst two groups...
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How Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: Evidence from Australia
Spicer, Alexandra; Stavrunova, Olena; Thorp, Susan - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
Households in many developed economies now reach retirement with lump sums of financial wealth accumulated through … defined contribution retirement plans. Managing wealth from individual accumulations and public provision is critical to … retirement welfare. We study the dynamics of retirement wealth and asset allocation using the three wealth waves of the Household …
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Fiscal Stimulus and HouseholdsÕ Non-Durable Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the 2009 Australian Nation Building and Jobs Plan
Aisbett, Emma Kate; Brückner, Markus; Steinhauser, Ralf; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
In 2009 the Australian government delivered approximately $8 billion in direct payments to households. These payments were pre- announced and randomly allocated to households based on postal codes over a 5-week period. We exploit this random allocation to estimate the causal response of...
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Public Services and the poor in Laos
Warr, Peter; Menon, Jayant; Rasphone, Sitthiroth - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
Both cross sectional and panel methods of analysis for Laos confirm that for public education and health services, the poorest quintile groups receive the smallest shares of total provision of these services. Nevertheless, poor groups’ shares of an increase in the level of provision...
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The Household Effects of Government Spending
Giavazzi, Francesco; McMahon, Michael - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
estimating the wealth effects associated with a shift in spending. We find significant heterogeneity in households' response to a …
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Calorie Thresholds and Undernutrition in India, 1993–2004
Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
in calorie share to a measure of wealth. The calorie threshold is suspect as it is influenced by several other factors …
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THE DETERMINANTS OF PRIVATE SAVING IN INDIA
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Sen, Kunal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of private saving in the process of economic development, in the light of the Indian experience during the period 1954 - 1998. The methodology involves the estimation of a saving rate function derived within the life cycle framework while paying attention to...
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The Determinants of Private Saving in India
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Sen, Kunal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of private saving in the process of economic development, in the light of the Indian experience during the period 1954 - 1998. The methodology involves the estimation of a saving rate function derived within the life cycle framework while paying attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005057581
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Deep Habits, Price Rigidities and the Consumption Response to Government Spending
Jacob, Punnoose - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
at the expense of leisure and overcome the negative wealth effect of the fiscal shock. We show that increasing price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860355