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Shifts in US savings : long-run asset accumulation versus consumption smoothing

Tanner, Evan - In: Applied economics 29 (1997) 8, pp. 989-999

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Smoking: Taxing health and social security

Armour, Brian S.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2006

While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal Social Security tax rates (NMSSTR). The results show...

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Do the sick retire early? : chronic illness, asset accumulation and early retirement

Miah, M. Solaiman; Wilcox-Gök, Virginia Louise - In: Applied economics 39 (2007) 13/15, pp. 1921-1936

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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costantini, Mauro; Paradiso, … - 2012

In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...

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Estimating permanent income and wealth of the US farm households

Mishra, Ashok K.; Paudel, Krishna P. - In: Applied economics 43 (2011) 10/12, pp. 1521-1533

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Social security privatization and financial market risk : lessons from US financial history

Burtless, Gary - 2000

hypothetical pensions U.S. workers would have obtained between 1911 and 1999 if they had accumulated retirement savings in … with a new system of mandatory defined-contribution private pensions. Proponents claim that private plans offer better … present in certain types of public retirement system, but a public system has one important advantage over private pensions …

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Long term impacts of compensatory preschool on health and behavior: Evidence from head start

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...

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A Concave Security Market Line

De Giorgi, Enrico G.; Post, Thierry; Yalcin, Atakan - 2012

We provide theoretical and empirical arguments in favor of a concave shape for the security market line, or a diminishing marginal premium for market risk. In capital market equilibrium with binding portfolio restrictions, different investors generally hold different sets of risky securities....

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Correcting mistakes: Cognitive dissonance and political attitudes in Sweden and the United States

Elinder, Mikael - 2009

Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate they have voted for. Following Mullainathan and Washington (2009), I test this prediction by using exogenous variation in turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve...

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The effects of pricing waste generation : a synthetic control approach

Bueno, Matheus; Valente, Marica - 2018

To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. To account for policy endogeneity due to unobservables, we...

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