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This paper focuses on the role of habit formation in individual preferencesover consumption and saving. We closely relate to Alessie and Lusardi's(1997) model as we estimate a model which is based on their closed-formsolution, where saving is expressed as a function of lagged saving and...
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Using Italian data, we estimate an option value model to quantify the effectof financial incentives on retirement choices. As far as we know, this isthe first empirical study to estimate the conditional multiple-years modelput forward by Stock and Wise (1990). This implies that we account...
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of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings plan was introduced that implied a large … savings subsidy for all workers, irrespective of birth year. This paper uses linked administrative and survey data to assess … the effect of the reform on the savings and retirement expectations and realizations of two virtually identical male …
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In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is relatively firm-specific whereas the latter training is relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we...
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paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We …) the savings of renters that may be considered as would-beowners. We find a significant effect of home equity on the demand … for second mortgages.Savings of homeowners decrease when house prices accelerate. We find no evidence that inc …
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We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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We present a structural empirical model of collective household labour supply.Following recent developments in the literature on collective household labour sup-ply our model allows for the nonparticipation decision, along with the choiceof working hours. We use the theoretical framework for the...
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