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Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2001

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The Cost of Annuities : Implications for Saving Behavior and Bequests

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1985

The fact that most eldealy individuals in the United States choose to maintain a flat age-wealth profile, rather than buy individual life annuities, stands in contrast to central implications of the standard life-cycle model of consumption-saving behavior. The analysis in this paper lends...

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Dissaving After Retirement : Testing the Pure Life Cycle Hypothesis

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 1984

In this paper, we examine several aspects of saving and dissaving after retirement. First, we argue that existing evidence on bequeathable age-wealth profiles is suspect, and provide new evidence based on longitudinal data indicating that significant dissaving may occur,particularly among single...

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Spending Reductions in the Medicare Shared Savings Program : Selection or Savings?

McWilliams, J. Michael - 2019

be earning shared-savings bonuses by selecting for lower-risk patients or providers with lower-risk panels. We conducted … three sets of analyses to examine risk selection in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. First, we estimated overall MSSP … savings through 2015 using a difference-in-differences approach and methods that eliminated selection bias from ACO program …

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Saving Regret

Börsch-Supan, Axel H. - 2018

We define saving regret as the wish in hindsight to have saved more earlier in life. We measured saving regret and possible determinants in a survey of a probability sample of those aged 60-79. We investigate two main causes of saving regret: procrastination along with other psychological...

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The Wealth Decumulation Behavior of the Retired Elderly in Italy : The Importance of Bequest Motives and Precautionary Saving

Ventura, Luigi - 2020

In this paper, we analyze the wealth accumulation and saving behavior of the retired elderly in Italy using micro data from the "Survey of Italian Households' Income and Wealth," a panel survey of households conducted every two years by the Bank of Italy. We find that, on average, the retired...

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The (Dis)saving Behavior of the Aged in Japan

Horioka, Charles Y. - 2009

In this paper, I survey the previous literature on the saving behavior of the aged in Japan and then present some survey data on the saving behavior of the aged in Japan that became available recently. To summarize the main findings of this paper, virtually all previous studies as well as the...

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