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Sauter, Nicolas; Walliser, Jan; Winter, Joachim - 2010

Whole life insurance plays an important role in household saving. However, empirical evidence on its determinants is scarce. This paper studies two natural experiments to identify the effects of tax incentives and bequest motives on life-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000...

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How will 401(k) pension plans affect retirement income?

Samwick, Andrew; Skinner, Jonathan - In: The American economic review 94 (2004) 1, pp. 329-343

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The role of the annuity's value on the decision (not) to annuitize: evidence from a large policy change

Bütler, Monika; Staubli, Stefan; Zito, Maria Grazia - 2008

percentage point change in the share of men choosing to annuitize their savings. We also show that the estimated responsiveness …

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Mental accounting in portfolio choice: evidence from a flaypaper effect

Choi, James J.; Laibson, David I.; Madrian, Brigitte C. - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 5, pp. 2085-2095

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Impatience and uncertainty : experimantal decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

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Optimal defaults

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Saving, risk sharing, and preferences for risk

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Portfolio choice and trading in a large 401 (k) plan

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Saver behavior and 401 (k) retirement wealth

Poterba, James M.; Venti, Steven F.; Wise, David A. - In: The American economic review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 297-302

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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias - 2011

We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...

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