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close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit … reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit …
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close to retirement. The age pattern is partly explained by the positive effect of pension wealth on disability pensions …This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit … reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088379
Financial literacy affects wealth accumulation, and pension planning plays a key role in this relationship. In a large …
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pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household … have lower (higher) expected standards of living in retirement, due to the uncertainty regarding intrahousehold resource … sharing. The empirical results suggest that household bargaining is significantly correlated with individual retirement …
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one from voluntary participation. Regressions of the participation decision suggest that a high level of household wealth …
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How to invest and decumulate wealth during retirement has far-reaching consequences for consumption during retirement … investigate the choice between phased withdrawal plans with varying riskiness resulting in volatile retirement income. We find … that 40% of the participants choose some risk and thus, accept fluctuations in retirement income. Second, we analyze the …
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In a meta-analysis of 126 impact evaluation studies, we find that financial education significantly impacts financial behavior and, to an even larger extent, financial literacy. These results also hold for the subsample of randomized experiments (RCTs). However, intervention impacts are highly...
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Research has consistently shown that women's involvement in household decision making positively affects household outcomes such as nutrition and education of children. Is financial literacy a determinant for women to participate in intra-household decision making? Using data on savings groups...
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We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via a quantitative meta-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatments have, on average, sizeable impacts on financial knowledge (+0.33 SD), similar to educational...
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We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We find that active learning has a positive...
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