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The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – a relatively new and not well … management of short and long term savings (i.e., pension wealth) while avoiding unnecessary administrative costs. The paper …
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-Economic Panel that we combine with geographic flood data, we compare the savings behavior of affected and non-affected individuals …
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This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
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turned to Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) as an alternative to traditional systems of unemployment insurance …. UISAs are schemes of individual mandatory savings. Therefore, they smooth income over an individual's life cycle rather than …
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Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no uncertainty, and no institutional restrictions on...
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This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings … and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the … home- and host country may also be related to future return plans. Thus, comparing savings and assets between immigrants …
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characteristic are correlated with more job opportunities. Policy simulations ten suggest that the risk pooling and savings component …
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In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...
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a buffer-stock savings model and show that rising income uncertainty and pension reforms lead younger and older … household savings rate and the U-shaped age-profile of savings …
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