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Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function

Finkelstein, Amy - 2009

central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health insurance and optimal life cycle savings. In …

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How General are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates

Ubfal, Diego - 2012

, good-specific discounting, under certain conditions, can explain the persistence of poverty and low savings by the poor …

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The Impact of Wealth on Job Exit Rates of Elderly Workers

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2007

the Netherlands in the period 1995 through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit …

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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Haan, Peter - 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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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

Haan, Peter - 2011

How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...

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Predicting Retirement Savings Using Survey Measures of Exponential-Growth Bias and Present Bias

Goda, Gopi Shah - 2018

In a nationally-representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey-based elicitations of exponential … present over the future, are highly significant and economically meaningful predictors of retirement savings. These … calculations suggest that eliminating EGB and PB would increase retirement savings by approximately 12 percent …

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Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants' Migration Duration and Saving Decisions

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2010

purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may …

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The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages

Bauer, Michal - 2009

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...

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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior

Sutter, Matthias - 2011

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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Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2010

In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...

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