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Old Folks and Spoiled Brats : Why the baby Boomers' Saving Crisis Need Not be that Bad

Butler, M.; Harms, P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

We study the impact of an anticipated "baby boom" in an overlapping generations economy.The rise of the working population lowers the wage, and the high demand for assets causes a rise in the price of capital which will be reversed when the baby boomers leave the work-force.However, the swings...

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Saving and wealth holdings of the elderly

Alessie, R.J.M.; Lusardi, A.; Kapteyn, A.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995

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Non-take-up of Tax-favored Savings Plans : Are Household Portfolios Optimal?

van soest, arthur; Alessie, R.J.M.; Hochgürtel, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

liquidity constraints less often buy ESSPs and, if they buy them, more often use them as a substitute for other savings …Since the early nineties, the Dutch tax system allows for a tax-favored form of risk free savings through employer …-sponsored savings plans (ESSPs).Under some conditions and up to a certain amount, the contributions to this plan are tax-deductible, and …

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Household portfolio allocation in the Netherlands : Saving accounts versus stocks and bonds

van soest, arthur; Hochgürtel, S.; Alessie, R.J.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995

This paper analyzes the portfolio structure of households in the Netherlands. It considers the allocation of financial wealth to two major asset categories, namely saving accounts on the one hand and stocks and bonds on the other hand. The latter category is considered to be more risky than the...

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Job finding, job loss and consumption behaviour

Koç, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

According to the permanent income / life-cycle hypothesis (PILCH), under standard preferences anticipated changes in employment status should not affect the changes in consumption. In this paper, we investigate the consumption behaviour of individuals who lose their jobs and those who find a...

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Married with Children : A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information

Cherchye, L.J.H.; de Rock, B.; Vermeulen, F.M.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...

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Cannabis, Cocaine and the Wages of Prime Age Males

van Ours, Jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This paper uses a dataset collected among inhabitants of Amsterdam, to study whether wages of prime age male workers are affected by the use of cannabis and cocaine.The analysis shows that cocaine use and infrequent cannabis use do not affect wages.Frequent cannabis use has a negative wage...

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How Tolerable is Delay? Consumers' Evaluations of Internet Web Sites After Waiting

Dellaert, B.G.C.; Kahn, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

How consumers’ waiting times affect their retrospective evaluations of Internet Web Sites is investigated in four computer-based experiments. Results show that waiting can but does not always negatively affect evaluations of Web Sites. Results also show that the potential negative effects of...

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The Revealed Preference Approach to Collective Consumption Behavior : Nonparametric Testing and Sharing Rule Recovery (Revised version of CentER DP 2007-73)

Cherchye, L.J.H.; de Rock, B.; Vermeulen, F.M.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

We present a nonparametric 'revealed preference' methodology for empiri- cally analyzing collective consumption behavior. First, we introduce an integer programming (IP) methodology for testing data consistency with collective con- sumption models that account for publicly as well as privately...

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Cannabis Prices and Dynamics of Cannabis Use

van Ours, Jan; Williams, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

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