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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

Berry, James; Karlan, Dean; Pradhan, Menno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...

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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 … analysis models to identify the mechanisms that underlie perceived financial preparedness for retirement. Findings revealed … psychological and retirement planning constructs, but also in the robustness of the path models. These findings suggest that policy …

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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 … retirement savings contributions and information search processes. We combine ideas from the literature in psychology and … economics that provide opposing predictions regarding the impact of uncertainty on retirement savings contributions. Our results …

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Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one … approach in which the retirement choice of husbands is instrumented with eligibility rules for generous early retirement … benefits that were temporarily and unexpectedly available to them. We find that early retirement opportunities of husbands …

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Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses

Teulings, Coen N.; Vries, Casper G. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

rights over the pension funds’ wealth. The problem is best resolved by the introduction of generational accounts. Modern …

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Voluntary Participation and Intergenerational Risk Sharing in a Funded Pension System

Beetsma, Roel; Romp, Ward; Vos, Siert J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We explore the feasibility of a funded pension system with intergenerational risk sharing when participation in the system is voluntary. Typically, the willingness of the young to participate depends on their belief about the future young's willingness to do so. We characterise equilibria with...

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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...

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First Author Determinants: An Empirical Analysis

Praag, Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in 'Economica', 2008, 75(300), pages 782-796.<P> Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials...</p>

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Making Work pay for the Indebted. The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals

Koning, Pierre - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This paper investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that was targeted at a specific group of Dutch Social Assistance (SA) recipients with debt problems. With a large share of the income gains of work resumption were transferred to the creditors, these individuals experienced a strong a...

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

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

wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth … accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create incentives for education, work effort, and entrepreneurship. We would … expect considerable wealth mobility over the life cycle if the life-cycle motives and incentives to accumulate are strong and …

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