these letters on the behavior of individuals. We find an increase in tax-deductible private retirement savings and provide …How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … their expected pension payments. Using German tax return data, we exploit an age discontinuity to identify the effect of …

This paper examines how families adjust their private old-age savings in response to a change in individual pension … wealth. The regression discontinuity approach exploits two expansions of the child care pension benefit, in 1992 and in 1999 …): 1998, 2003 and 2008. All results indicate that families do not adjust their private old-age savings in response to the …

This paper examines how families adjust their private old-age savings in response to a change in individual pension … wealth. The regression discontinuity approach exploits two expansions of the child care pension benefit, in 1992 and in 1999 …): 1998, 2003 and 2008. All results indicate that families do not adjust their private old-age savings in response to the …