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education arising from a Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and 1960s, and the wealth holdings of the population …
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This paper investigates the importance of family borrowing constraints in determining human capital investments in children at early and late ages. We begin by providing new evidence from the Children of the NLSY (CNLSY) which suggests that borrowing constraints bind for at least some families...
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Rising costs of and returns to college have led to sizeable increases in the demand for student loans in many countries. In the U.S., student loan default rates have also risen for recent cohorts as labor market uncertainty and debt levels have increased. We discuss these trends as well as...
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Economists have long been puzzled by the low demand for life annuities. To shed new light on this puzzle, we study payout choices in the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, where each retiree must choose between a lump sum and a life annuity. Notably, the average life annuity we study is...
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allocation decisions when managing her retirement financial wealth and annuities, and we prove that she can benefit from both the …; rather, her optimal stock allocation amounts initially to more than half of her financial wealth and declines with age …. Welfare gains from this strategy can amount to 40 percent of financial wealth (depending on risk parameters and other …
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This paper derives optimal life cycle portfolio asset allocations as well as annuity purchases trajectories for a consumer who can select her hours of work and also her retirement age. Using a realistically-calibrated model with stochastic mortality and uncertain labor income, we extend the...
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This paper examines how the menu of investment options made available to workers in defined contribution plans influences portfolio choice. Using unique panel data of 401(k) plans in the U.S., we present three principle findings. First, we show that the share of investment options in a...
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This paper considers the role that high levels of income inequality and low rates of social mobility play in driving …, who grow up in locations with greater levels of lower-tail income inequality and lower levels of social mobility are …, our empirical results indicate that high levels of lower-tail income inequality and low levels of social mobility hinder …
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portfolios. We examine how much the individual optimally saves and where, taking into account liquid financial wealth and …
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This paper analyzes the impact of student loans for higher education on enrollment, dropout decisions, and earnings. We investigate the massive State Guaranteed Loan (SGL) program implemented in Chile in 2006. Our empirical analysis is based on the estimation of a sequential schooling decision...
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