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The conventional approach to retirement and life insurance planning, which is used throughout the financial planning industry, differs markedly from the economic approach. The conventional approach asks households to specify how much they want to spend before retirement, after retirement, and in...
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This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the American past. Using both IPUMS and the Colored Troops Sample of the Civil War Union Army Data, I estimate the effects of literacy and health on the migration propensities of...
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appears due, in large part, to our compulsory savings institutions, the Social Security and private pension systems. These …
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Do regular 401(k) and IRA accounts offer greater tax benefits than Roth 401(k)s and Roth IRAs? This is a tough question. Regular 401(k)s and IRAs save taxes in the short term; Roth accounts save taxes in the long term. Regular 401(k)s and IRAs are vulnerable to future income tax hikes, but may...
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limits bind those older middle-income households who started their pension savings programs late in life, those who plan to …
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expenditures could explain a large amount of aggregate savings. Adding uncertain health expenditures to the model's economy raises … long run savings by almost one third, assuming individuals self insure. Arrangements for insuring uncertain health … expenditures also have potentially quite sizable effects on savings. Introducing actuarially fair insurance to the economy with …
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transfers for U.S. savings. Modigliani's paper is the latest salvo in a long running debate over the importance of … intergenerational transfers in explaining savings behavior. While Modigliani corrects an algebraic error of minor consequences in our …
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savings has primarily focused on the impact of particular policy variables on savings. In this paper we examine Barro …
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This paper discusses recent neoclassical analyses of taxation and savings.Contrary to the popular view that fiscal … policy has highly ambiguous impacts on savings, neoclassical models admit a host of policies with clear and potentially quite … quantitative affect on savings.The essential elements of these policies involve inter- and intragenerational redistribution …
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This article examines how the availability of annuities affects savings and inequality in economies in which neither … private nor public pensions initially exist. The absence of widespread market or government annuity insurance is clearly … CBS utility function indicate that perfecting annuity insurance can significantly reduce national savings. Indeed, the …
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