survey conducted in China, India, Japan, and the United States. It finds striking inter-country differences in bequest plans …

literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or … not the selfish life-cycle model applies in the case of Japan. In particular, we survey the literature on the impact of … almost all of the available evidence suggests that the selfish life-cycle model applies to a greater extent in Japan than it …

theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said … version of the selfish life-cycle model and then survey the literature on household saving and bequest behavior in Japan in …-cycle model applies to at least some extent in all countries but that there is more consistent support for this model in Japan …

criterion to rank them but that the retirement motive is the most important saving motive of European households if the … importance of each saving motive, with saving for the retirement motive being less important in countries with generous public … findings suggest that the retirement motive and the precautionary motive are the dominant motives for saving in Europe partly …

cycle labor supply, retirement timing, and savings. I develop a structural model in continuous time where the life-cycle of … a representative agent is divided into three distinct phases: pre-treatment, post-treatment, and retirement. Solutions … for consumption/savings, labor supply/leisure, and retirement timing are then obtained by solving the model as a salvage …

literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or … not the selfish life-cycle model applies in the case of Japan. In particular, we survey the literature on the impact of … almost all of the available evidence suggests that the selfish life-cycle model applies to a greater extent in Japan than it …

theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said … version of the selfish life-cycle model and then survey the literature on household saving and bequest behavior in Japan in …-cycle model applies to at least some extent in all countries but that there is more consistent support for this model in Japan …

insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan …, conducted by Osaka University. Japan is an interesting case to analyze because a public LTCI system was introduced there in 2000 …. Our analysis shows that, in the case of Japan, if parents are eligible for public LTCI benefits, their children will be …

We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor …

transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult … exploit eligibility ages for early retirement for identification in a regression discontinuity design. The results show that … parent's early retirement significantly increases the probability of childbirth for adult children. However, parental …