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We study whether the retirement replacement rate influences households' saving behavior by using the RAND Health and Retirement Study data file. We estimate quantile regressions with the ratio of wealth to permanent income as dependent variable, and age dummies and the retirement replacement...
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I study the relationship between household saving and pensions, and estimate both the displacement effect of pensions …, the consumption function depends on expected pension benefits and pension risk. I estimate the savings equation implied by …. Exploiting exogenous variation due to pension fund performance, I show that savings decrease significantly with expected pension …
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When it comes to estimating the benefits of long-term savings, many people rely on their intuition. Focusing on the … domain of retirement savings, we use a randomized experiment to explore people's intuition about how money accumulates over … time. We ask half of our sample to estimate future consumption given savings (the forward perspective). The other half of …
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savings. The third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, SHARELIFE, collects information on the … show the ability of the retrospective survey to generate cross-country differences in wages and pensions which are in line …
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We study the short-, medium-, and long-run implications of stimulating annuity markets in a dynamic general-equilibrium overlapping-generations model. We find that beneficial partial-equilibrium effects of stimulating annuity markets are counteracted by negative general-equilibrium...
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Large variations in retirement wealth are common, with some households accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars and others accumulating next to nothing. We examine to what extent formal planning or simple rules of thumb contribute to these differences in wealth accumulation. In particular,...
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We use probabilistic survey questions to analyze the determinants of individuals’ expected value of and the uncertainty in the retirement income replacement rate. We find that the expected replacement rate is U-shaped in age and is substantially lower for highereducated individuals....
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savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a …
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We present new evidence on financial literacy and retirement preparation in the Netherlands based on two surveys conducted before and after the onset of the financial crisis. We document that while financial knowledge did not increase from 2005 to 2010, significantly more individuals planned for...
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