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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2010

field behavior. -- experiments with children and adolescents ; risk ; ambiguity ; time preferences ; health status ; savings …

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Household saving and full consumption over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...

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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2015

and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on …

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Do natural disasters stimulate individual saving? : evidence from a natural experiment in a highly developed country

Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2015

-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …

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Saving face and group identity

Eriksson, Tor; Mao, Lei; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2015

Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer in their group. We show that a majority of individuals are willing to pay to preserve not only...

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The financial support for long-term elderly care and household savings behaviour

Ohinata, Asako; Picchio, Matteo - 2015

We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a …

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The saving behaviour of two person households : evidence from Dutch panel data

Euwals, Rob; Börsch-Supan, Axel; Eymann, Angelika - 2000

-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …

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Do mandatory pensions decrease household savings? : evidence for the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 2000

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …

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Does daylight saving time really make us sick?

Jin, Lawrence; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do not find much evidence that population health...

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Should unemployment insurance be asset-tested?

Koehne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2013

We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset testing has two counteracting effects on welfare. On the one hand, it improves consumption insurance by introducing state contingent transfers to agents most in need. On the...

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