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Financial literacy, retirement planning, and household wealth
Rooij, Maarten van; Lusardi, Annamaria; Alessie, Rob - 2011
savings plan has been shown to boost wealth. Overall, financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a … strong link to household wealth. -- Financial Education ; Savings and Wealth Accumulation ; Retirement Preparation …
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Saving and wealth holdings of the elderly
Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria; Kapteyn, Arie - 1995
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Saving behavior and portfolio choice after retirement
Ooijen, Raun van; Alessie, Rob; Kalwij, Adriaan S. - In: De economist : Netherlands economic review ; quarterly … 163 (2015) 3, pp. 353-404
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Home and mortgage ownership of the Dutch elderly; explaining cohort, time and age effects
Schors, Anna van der; Alessie, Rob; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2007
The relationship between home ownership of Dutch elderly households and age is strongly negative. Other studies suggest that this age gradient should be attributed to a cohort effect. In this paper, we investigate where those cohort effects come from. We also observe that mortgage ownership...
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The importance of financial incentives on retirement choices
Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - 2008
This study exploits a new dataset in order to quantify the effect of financial incentives on retirement choices. This dataset contains for the first time in Italy information on seniority. In accordance with the general finding in Gruber and Wise (2004), we find that financial incentives have an...
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Retirement behaviour of Dutch elderly households : diversity in retirement patterns across different household types
Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Alessie, Rob; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2002
This paper aims to assess the relative importance of differences in behaviouralresponses to financial incentives in explaining the observed variation in retirement behaviour across different types of households. We specify and estimate models for singles and married couples and estimate these on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327549
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Lifetime income and old age mortality risk in Italy over two decades
Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob; Kalwij, Adriaan S.; … - 2012
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Measuring retirement savings adequacy : developing a multi-pillar approach in the Netherlands
Knoef, Marike; Been, Jim; Alessie, Rob; Caminada, Koen; … - In: Journal of pension economics and finance 15 (2016) 1, pp. 55-89
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Non-take-up of tax-favored savings plans : are household portfolios optimal?
Alessie, Rob; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Soest, Arthur van - 2001
Since the early nineties, the Dutch tax system allows for a tax-favored form of risk free savings through employer …-sponsored savings plans (ESSPs). Under some conditions and up to a certain amount, the contributions to this planare tax-deductible, and … suggests that those who have access to this type of savings should participate inthem, provided they have some financial wealth …
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Saving and Cohabitation : The Economic Consequences of Living with One's Parents in Italy and the Netherlands
Alessie, Rob; Brugiavini, Agar; Weber, Guglielmo - 2005
The paper deals with the effects of cohabitation of grown children with their parents on household saving, using data from Italy and the Netherlands. It presents a two-period game theoretical model where the child has to decide whether to move out of the parental home. This decision is affected...
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