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implications for savings and long-term care policies. We first develop a theoretical model predicting that higher nursing home … aversion should induce higher savings and stronger support for policies subsidizing home care. We further document, based on a … likely to have higher intended savings for older age because of the pandemic. We also find that they are more likely to …
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Higher-order risk effects play an important role in examining economic behavior under uncertainty. A precautionary demand for saving has been linked to the property of prudence and the property of temperance has been used to show how the presence of an unavoidable risk affects one's behavior...
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myopia may justify public pensions but never alongside positive private savings. With sufficient myopia, co-existence of …
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A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This … a retail bank in the Netherlands. We find that households who are exposed to the social norm nudge click more often on a … link to a personal web page where they can start or adjust an automatic savings plan. However, analyzing detailed bank data …
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Netherlands. Key findings include the following. Adequate levels of retirement spending exceed 80 percent of working life spending … Netherlands are much more risk averse than U.S. households. -- life cycle preferences ; pension reform ; replacement rates …
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The Nordic countries have the lowest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. This has not always been the case. In 1887 the mortality rates in Norway were similar to those of developing countries today. During the next 34 years, Norwegian maternal mortality was halved and infant...
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According to the endowment effect there is some discomfort associated with giving up a good, that is to say, we are willing to give up something only if the price is greater than the price we are willing to pay for it. This implies that the indifference curves should designate a reference point...
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Multiplicative growth processes that are subject to random shocks often have a skewed distribution of outcomes. In a number of incentivized laboratory experiments we show that a large majority of participants either strongly underestimate skewness or ignore it completely. Participants...
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This study proposes an analytical framework towards behavioral political economy of institutional change. It considers institutional changes as central government’s choices under uncertainty, which are largely driven by the strategic outcomes in a behavioral coordination game between local...
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Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...
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