about the recipient's permanent income. The empirical work uses data from the Health and Retirement Survey and the Asset and …

may not otherwise be available. Within the family there is a degree of trust and a level of information which alleviates … families can provide insurance against uncertain dates of death. Death risk sharing family arrangements effectively constitute … in annuities, these risk sharing arrangements provide powerful economic incentives for marriage and family formation. The …

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end …

give an explanation of the findings. Similarity of retirement dates could be caused by similarity of tastes (assortative … the response of retirement to policy changes. Both simple data analysis and economic models of the age of retirement point … to coordination of retirement dates: husbands and wives tend to retire at the same time. According to the results, very …

This paper constructs a model of retirement and saving by two earner couples. The model includes three dimensions of … behavior: the joint determination of retirement and saving; heterogeneity in time preference; and the interdependence of … retirement decisions of husbands and wives. Estimation is based on panel data from the Health and Retirement Study covering the …

A structural econometric model of retirement of married couples is specified and estimated with recent panel data from … spouse, and perhaps husbands in particular, values retirement more once their spouse has retired. The opportunity set … accounts for peaks in the retirement hazards of each spouse, but coordination in opportunities is not responsible for …

The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in … a household context. This paper explores how husbands' and wives' retirement behavior is influenced by their own …

Income tax burdens on family units are adjusted to reflect differences in ability to pay attributable to whether the … exists over the appropriate forms of adjustment, and existing approaches to taxation of the family vary greatly across … jurisdictions. This article derives equitable relative tax burdens for different family configurations from a utilitarian welfare …

family and fertility practices, and attitudes in the job market). It is, however, the pervasive evidence of the resilience of …