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lifetime resources, on the current consumption and wealth accumulation of employees affected by the reform. In line with …
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(positive) impact on households' consumption (savings), even after we control for family income. We argue that people save to … consumption is stronger for poorer and younger people, and income inequality stimulates more education investment, which are …
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This paper studies consumption and savings decisions of Danish households before and during the financial crisis as … consumption ratios immediately in response to the financial crisis, net savers have increased their consumption ratios to pre … housing wealth, suggesting that collateral effects may play a role. The MPC is asymmetric; households adjust their consumption …
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The Economic Council’s Road Map for Tax Reform laid the groundwork for a greater discussion of the consumption tax … and against a consumption tax. He argues that the tax treatment of savings is likely to become a more central policy focus … on consumption taxes: a sharp increase in sales tax revenues (sales and excise) to reduce reliance on income taxes; a …
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Preferences over wealth can explain why households do not spend more when real interest rates fall, because they save more than optimal under a standard model. However, little is known about preferences over wealth empirically. We run an intentionally simple lab experiment on intertemporal...
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Carroll and Kimball (1996) show that the consumption function for an agent with time-separable, isoelastic preferences … always exists a distribution of income risk such that consumption function is not concave in wealth. I also derive suffi … cient conditions guaranteeing that the consumption function is concave if the agent has preferences for late resolution of …
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This paper exploits an administrative regulation in Singapore that allows individuals to withdraw between 10 to 30 percent of their pension savings at age 55. We find a large and highly significant increase in individuals' bank account balances within the first month of turning 55, which...
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of a tax policy change on households' consumption and retirement savings behavior … find that households reduce their consumption by 14% and increase their PPF savings by 16% in response to an increase in …
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households reduce their consumption in order to finance a tax-favored saving instrument using a unique administrative panel data … consumption by US$25 (5.2%) per month on average in order to finance the tax-favored saving account. For a one dollar increase in …
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Using detailed micro-data, this paper documents that households with lower income risk (and higher income levels) exhibit a higher Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) in response to transitory income shocks, all else being equal. This finding is particularly significant among unconstrained...
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