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Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth
Fella, Giulio; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Pugh, Thomas - 2024
We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486954
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Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth
Fella, Giulio; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Pugh, Thomas - 2024
We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life-cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581860
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Time Discounting and Economic Decision-Making Among the Elderly
Huffman, David - 2020
This research project evaluates the extent of heterogeneity in time discounting among elderly Americans, as well as its role in explaining older peoples' key behaviors. We first show how older Americans evaluate simple (hypothetical) intertemporal choices in which payments now are compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854861
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Household bargaining, pension contributions and retirement expectations : evidence from the German Panel on Household Finances
Fernandes, Inês; Schmidt, Tobias - 2021
In this paper, we study the relationship between intrahousehold bargaining styles, bar-gaining power and individual pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household Finances (PHF) survey. The paper builds on a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697947
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Household Bargaining, Pension Contributions and Retirement Expectations : Evidence from the German Panel on Household Finances
Fernandes, Ines; Schmidt, Tobias - 2022
In this paper, we study the relationship between intrahousehold bargaining styles, bar-gaining power and individual pension contributions and expected standard of living in retirement, using microdata from the German Panel on Household Finances (PHF) survey. The paper builds on a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310307
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Expectations and Saving Behavior: An Empirical Analysis
Arent, Stefan - 2012
studies. We use aunique panel data set on household savings. We find that that a higher unemploymentexpectation significantly … decreases savings. However, we are not able to identify asignificant relationship between general future income expectations and … savings. Moreover,we find that good health expectations increase savings in Western Germany, butdecrease the savings in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312155
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Confidence, Financial Literacy and Investment in Risky Assets : Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances
Cupák, Andrej - 2020
We employ recent Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) microdata from the US to analyze the impacts of confidence in one's own financial knowledge, confidence in the economy, and objective financial literacy on investment in risky financial assets (equity and bonds) on both the extensive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834179
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Is the selfish life-cycle model more applicable in Japan and, if so, why? : a literature survey
Horioka, Charles - 2020
The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said to have closer family ties than other countries? In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291218
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Saving after retirement and preferences for residual wealth
Fella, Giulio; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Pugh, Thomas - 2024 - Last updated: June 11, 2024
We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014562957
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Intergenerational Altruism and Retirement Transfers : Evidence from the Social Security Notch
Mukherjee, Anita - 2020
I contribute new evidence on altruistic preferences in intergenerational transfers using variation in Social Security benefits induced by an inflation-indexing mistake. The instrument is most relevant for those with low education, so I focus on this group. I find support for pure altruism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826687