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Like father, like son : inheriting and bequeathing
Kunze, Lars - 2012
Empirical evidence suggests that parents who have themselves inherited from their own parents are more likely to leave an estate to their children even after controlling for income, wealth and education. This implies an indirect reciprocal behavior between three generations by transmitting the...
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The introduction of Bismarck's social security system and its effects on marriage and fertility in Prussia
Guinnane, Timothy; Streb, Jochen - 2021
Economists have long argued that introducing social insurance will reduce fertility. The hypothesis relies on standard models: if children are desirable in part because they provide security in case of disability or old age, then State programs that provide insurance against these events should...
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Fixed amount saving and the permanent income hypothesis
Vosen, Simeon - 2012
flexibly adjusting savings to income variations as assumed by the Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH). Fixed amount saving …
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Are financial retirement incentives more effective if pension knowledge is high?
Giesecke, Matthias; Yang, Guanzhong - 2016
We elicit preferences for retirement timing in a laboratory experiment. Subjects make retirement choices under different payoff schemes that introduce variation in financial incentives. Testing ceteris paribus conditions of the financial incentive alone shows a considerable delay of retirement...
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Bismarck in the bedroom? : pension reform and fertility : evidence 1870-2010
Jäger, Philipp - 2017
Rising public pension generosity has frequently been cited as one reason for the (persistently) declining fertility rates in many advanced economies. Despite the theoretical appeal, empirical evidence on the pension-fertility nexus is limited. To fill this gap, I study country-level fertility...
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The introduction of social pensions and elderly mortality : evidence 1870-1939
Jäger, Philipp - 2019
introduction of social pensions targeted at poor elderly people in the late 19th-early 20th century, has reduced mortality rates of … eventually implemented social pensions before World War II. Applying a difference-in-difference-in-difference as well as a … regression discontinuity design, I find no evidence for a decline in elderly mortality due to the introduction of social pensions …
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Can pensions save lives? : evidence from the introduction of old-age assistance in the UK
Jäger, Philipp - 2023
I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a …
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Job security perceptions and the saving behavior of German households
Klemm, Marcus - 2012
This paper investigates the co-movements of job security perceptions and household saving rates using data from the 1992 to 2010 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. The empirical analysis reveals that higher job insecurity is generally accompanied by slightly lower saving which suggests...
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Are you well prepared for long-term care? : assessing financial gaps in private German care provision
Keese, Matthias; Meng, Annika; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2010
The development of expenditure for care services is one of the most intensively debated topics in public. However, studies calculating financial provision gaps only focus on the macro-level implications for the compulsory care insurance. In contrast, this paper examines the individuals’...
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An experiment on consumption responses to future prices and interest rates
Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Roos, Michael W.M.; Scharler, Johann - 2011
We design an experiment to investigate the influence of announced future variations in interest rates and prices on consumption decisions. In an experimental implementation of the discounted utility model, the subjects learn the entire paths of inflation and interest rates prior to deciding on a...
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