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Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Barth, Daniel; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2017
attainment independently predict household wealth in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). This relationship is partly explained … gradient in wealth.We show that individuals with lower genetic scores are more prone to reporting "extreme beliefs" (e … wealth disparities not only through education and higher earnings, but also through their impact on the ability to process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653295
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Charitable bequests and wealth at death
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - 2012
the relationship with wealth at death, on the form of the bequest, and on the different causes to which people bequeath. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289929
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Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death
Atkinson, Tony; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the relationship with wealth at death, on the form of the bequest, and on the different causes to which people bequeath. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156473
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Disagreement in partners' reports of financial difficulty
Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong; … - 2005
We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for this disagreement are tested using the data. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267389
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Disagreement in Partners' Reports of Financial Difficulty
Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for this disagreement are tested using the data. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703229
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Temporal Discounting in Later Life
Kulati, Ellam; Myck, Michal; Pasini, Giacomo - 2022
We explore intertemporal decision-making in later life by looking at temporal preference heterogeneity among older individuals. Using choice tasks responses from Poland collected as part of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we elicit individual time preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470406
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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 difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which introduced free formal personal care for all the elderly aged 65 and above residing in Scotland. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307455
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The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy
Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2018
with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but … only above the median of the wealth distribution, with housing as the main driver. Immigrant status reduces the likelihood … worsened the condition of immigrants in terms of wealth holdings, home ownership, and financial fragility. …
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The Determinants of Retirement Planning within Couples in Ireland
Doorley, Karina; Nolan, Anne - 2019
Financial literacy is higher for men than for women and high financial literacy has been linked to higher wealth and …-retirement couples and their level of wealth and financial stress using TILDA data for Ireland. We find that joint financial literacy is … more highly correlated with household wealth, particularly real estate, than the financial literacy of individual members …
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Banks information policies, financial literacy and household wealth
Fort, Margherita; Manaresi, Francesco; Trucchi, Serena - 2012
increase individuals' financial literacy and that the relationship between financial literacy and wealth is largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289931