We estimate the trend in the transitory variance of male earnings in the U.S. using the Michigan Panel Study of Income …

I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in … reduction in income was removed in the third policy period. These two reforms allow a causal identification of the effect of in …

fraction of their income. The major difficulty in empirically assessing the relationship between incomes and saving rates is to … construct a credible proxy for long-run income - purged of transitory fluctuations and measurement error. The Canadian Family … reliable long-run income proxies. Our empirical analysis suggests that the estimated relationship between saving rates and long …