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Tax incentives, bequest motives, and the demand for life insurance : evidence from two natural experiments in Germany
Sauter, Nicolas; Walliser, Jan; Winter, Joachim - 2010
life-insurance demand. -- savings ; life insurance ; capital income taxation ; bequests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966524
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Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions?
Dolls, Mathias; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2018
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … public pension payments. This reform did not change the level of pensions, but only provided information to individuals about … these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide …
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Pension information and women's awareness
Angelici, Marta; Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; … - 2020
were interviewed to assess their knowledge about pensions and financial issues and about their own savings and personal … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women’s awareness …
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One pillar crumbling, the others too short : old-age provision in Germany
Werding, Martin - 2016
Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked …
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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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Does mandatory saving crowd out voluntary saving? : evidence from a pension reform
Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022
Recently, mandatory pension contributions in the private sector in Iceland were increased substantially while remaining unchanged in the public sector. This constituted a large natural experiment. We study the effects of this experiment on households’ voluntary saving using administrative...
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Why mandate young borrowers to contribute to their retirement accounts?
Andersen, Torben M.; Bhattacharya, Joydeep - 2017
borrowing more that too at a rate higher than offered by pension savings, their life-time utility increases. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688004
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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 (contributor); Staubli, Stefan (contributor) - 2008
percentage point change in the share of men choosing to annuitize their savings. We also show that the estimated responsiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749467
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Misperceived returns to active investing
Haaland, Ingar; Naess, Ole-Andreas Elvik - 2023
We conduct field experiments with retail investors recruited from a social trading platform. In our main experiment, we first elicit beliefs about the returns to active investing. We then generate exogenous variation in beliefs by providing treated respondents with information about index funds...
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Closing the gender STEM gap : a large-scale randomize-controlled trial in elementary schools
Grosch, Kerstin; Haeckl, Simone; Kocher, Martin - 2022
We examine individual-level determinants of interest in STEM and analyze whether a digital web application for elementary-school children can increase children's interest in STEM with a specific focus on narrowing the gender gap. Coupling a randomized-controlled trial with experimental lab and...
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