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In this paper we evaluate the crowd-out effects of the National Health Insurance (NHI) on household precautionary saving in Taiwan. Our analysis differs from existing studies in two respects. First, we do not exclude the households with negative saving which are about one sixth of the entire...
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Life-cycle theory predicts ageing exerting long-term macroeconomic impacts through the reduction of private savings. However, empirical research studying macroeconomic determinants of savings generally regard age dependency as the sole measure of ageing, but overlook longevity, which can also...
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Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no uncertainty, and no institutional restrictions on...
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