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We report on a series of economic decision-making experiments exploring how individuals make lifecycle consumption and saving plans when they face different income profiles. We find that for every income profile we consider, subjects on average over-consume in the early periods of life and...
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The life-cycle theory of saving behavior (Modigliani, 1988) suggests that humans strive towards an equal intertemporal … distribution of wealth. However, behavioral life-cycle theory (Shefrin & Thaler, 1988) proposes that people use self control … heuristics to postpone wealth until later in life. According to this theory, people use a system of cognitive budgeting known as …
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