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Saving and Habit Formation: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data

Alessie, Rob; Teppa, Federica - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

This paper focuses on the role of habit formation in individual preferencesover consumption and saving. We closely relate to Alessie and Lusardi's(1997) model as we estimate a model which is based on their closed-formsolution, where saving is expressed as a function of lagged saving and...

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On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle and Weather Shocks

Hoogeveen, Hans; Klaauw, Bas van der; Lomwel, Gijsbert van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This discussion paper resulted in an article in 'Economic Development and Cultural Change', 2011, 60, 121-154. <P> In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's...</p>

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Who is at the Top? Wealth Mobility over the Life Cycle

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Who is wealthy? This paper presents empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create...

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Mapping the Minds of Retirement Planners

Hershey, Douglas A.; Henkens, Kène; Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This study explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie the retirement planning and saving tendencies of Dutch and American workers. Participants were 988 Dutch and 429 Americans, 25-64 years of age. Analyses were designed to: (a) examine the extent to which structural variables were...

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Savings Adequacy Uncertainty: Driver or Obstacle to Increased Pension Contributions?

Schie, Ron J.G. van; Donkers, Bas; Dellaert, Benedict G.C. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Deciding how much to save for retirement is a difficult task that includes many uncertainties. In this paper, we use data from a representative Dutch household panel to study the impact of uncertainty regarding one's savings adequacy on retirement savings contributions and information search...

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US and European Household Debt and Credit Constraints

Crook, Jonathan; Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

This paper uses micro data from four OECD countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands), to assess the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not credit constraints are important for household debt holding. We extend the existing literature in...

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Risk and Savings: a Taxonomy

Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Risk may induce precautionary saving but it can also reduce saving. The theoretical literature recognizes both possibilities, but favors a positive effect (both for developed and developing countries); the empirical literature is divided, reporting (small) positive effects for developed...

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Do Organic Inputs in African Subsistence Agriculture Raise Productivity? Evidence from Plot Data of Malawi Household Surveys

Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

using organic inputs on a larger scale. We approximate organic inputs with crop combinations and livestock, and use matching … with livestock and chemical fertilizer, is shown to be statistically similar to productivity of fertilized maize mono … techniques. Limited availability of labour and livestock are likely constraints. …

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Limitations on De-collectivisation in Central European Agriculture

Bezemer, Dirk J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...

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Russian Reforms: the Return of the Peasant?

Bezemer, Dirk J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

Russian agriculture in transition (1991-1998) was characterised by a production collapse due to aloss in quality and quantity of acreage, disinvestments, falling purchasingpower, and increasedimports. Neither traditional agriculture nor the nascent family farm sector havebeen able to ensure...

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