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We study whether the retirement replacement rate influences households' saving behavior by using the RAND Health and Retirement Study data file. We estimate quantile regressions with the ratio of wealth to permanent income as dependent variable, and age dummies and the retirement replacement...
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Large variations in retirement wealth are common, with some households accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars and others accumulating next to nothing. We examine to what extent formal planning or simple rules of thumb contribute to these differences in wealth accumulation. In particular,...
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savings. The third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, SHARELIFE, collects information on the … show the ability of the retrospective survey to generate cross-country differences in wages and pensions which are in line …
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I study the relationship between household saving and pensions, and estimate both the displacement effect of pensions …, the consumption function depends on expected pension benefits and pension risk. I estimate the savings equation implied by …. Exploiting exogenous variation due to pension fund performance, I show that savings decrease significantly with expected pension …
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We study the short-, medium-, and long-run implications of stimulating annuity markets in a dynamic general-equilibrium overlapping-generations model. We find that beneficial partial-equilibrium effects of stimulating annuity markets are counteracted by negative general-equilibrium...
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When it comes to estimating the benefits of long-term savings, many people rely on their intuition. Focusing on the … domain of retirement savings, we use a randomized experiment to explore people's intuition about how money accumulates over … time. We ask half of our sample to estimate future consumption given savings (the forward perspective). The other half of …
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To test some of the implications of the life cycle-permanent income hypothesis we exploit differences in expected retirement replacement rates between lowly and highly educated households. We examine education-specific age-wealth profiles at the household level. Our sample is an unbalanced panel...
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Demographic projections forecast a doubling of the dependency ratio until 2050 as well as an increase of 10% in population due to longer life expectancy in Switzerland. To quantify the effects on social security and public finances, we use a computational overlapping generations model with five...
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Using a stochastic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations, this paper studies (i) the effects on both extensive and intensive labour supply responses to changes in fertility rates, and (ii) the potential of a retirement reform to mitigate the effects of fertility changes on...
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terms of labor income, financial wealth, and stock market participation. We build a life-cycle consumption-savings model … inequality in pensions while it moderates the risks through active rebalancing …
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