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Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany
Keese, Matthias - 2009
Overindebted private households have created economic and political concern. Using measures of relative (over-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates whether severe household indebtedness is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265783
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Who Feels Constrained by High Debt Burdens? – Subjective vs. Objective Measures of Household Indebtedness
Keese, Matthias - 2010
This paper analyzes differences in self-assessed debt burdens of German households confronted with an objective debt burden. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, my econometric analysis shows that a household's subjective debt burden is not only influenced by the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269982
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The Effect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving – Evidence from Germanys
Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households' propensities to save in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272759
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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999-2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-effects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273591
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Who Feels Constrained by High Debt Burdens? – Subjective vs. Objective Measures of Household Indebtedness
Keese, Matthias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
This paper analyzes diff erences in self-assessed debt burdens of German households confronted with an objective debt burden. Using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, my econometric analysis shows that a household’s subjective debt burden is not only infl uenced by the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518181
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The Eff ect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving – Evidence from Germanys
Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions – the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households’ propensities to save in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518182
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Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany
Keese, Matthias - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Overindebted private households have created economic and political concern. Using measures of relative (over-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates whether severe household indebtedness is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509377
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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health
Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999–2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-eff ects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018046
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The rise and fall of median wealth in the U.S.: A birth-cohort story
Jäger, Philipp; Schacht, Philip - 2023
We use recently published long-run microdata (SCF+) to investigate generational wealth dynamics in the U.S. over the … last seven decades. We document that the median wealth of people born in the first half of the 20th century increased from … one ten-year birth cohort to the next. For people born in the second half of the century, median wealth successively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438410
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Do Parents Buy Their Children's Attention?
Meng, Annika - 2009
wealth on receiving attention from on's children. This paper illustrates that these results from the past should be … interpreted with some care as the relationship between wealth and children's attention is sensitive to the type of financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265811