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Financial literacy and intertemporal arbitrage
Oberrauch, Luis; Kaiser, Tim - 2020
We study the role of financial literacy for inter-temporal decision-making using an adapted version of the Convex Time Budget Protocol (Andreoni and Sprenger 2012). While we find no evidence of dynamically inconsistent preferences in the aggregate, we document substantial heterogeneity in...
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Saving for Retirement - A Case for Financial Education in Germany and UK? An Economic Perspective
Oehler, Andreas - 2010
Demographic changes, tight public budgets, and reduced generosity of occupational pension plans shift the responsibility for an adequate retirement provision towards the individual. Applying the theoretical perspectives of Behavioural Finance and New Institutionalism to the domain of retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139316
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Saving Rates and Poverty : The Role of Conspicuous Consumption and Human Capital
Moav, Omer - 2010
Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income consuming goods that do not appear to alleviate poverty, while saving at low rates. We suggest that individuals care about economic status and hence we interpret this behavior as conspicuous consumption that is intended to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135041
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866354
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866724
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The Effects of Relaxing the One-Child Policy
Jia, Ning; Lugauer, Steven; Ni, Jinlan; Yin, Zhichao - 2021
This paper examines the early effects of dismantling the one-child (fertility) policy, which China relaxed in 2013 and eliminated prior to 2017. Birth rates, female labor force participation, and saving behavior have already changed. Between 2015 and 2017, the proportion of households with...
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Retirement sorted? : the adequacy and optimality of wealth among the near-retired
Crawford, Rowena; O'Dea, Cormac - 2014
Much of the focus of the UK pensions policy debate over the past decade has been on the adequacy (or otherwise) of private retirement saving. In this paper, we present the first assessment of the optimality of the retirement resources of English couple households born in the 1940s. Here,...
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The (in)validity of the Ricardian equivalence theorem : findings from a representative German population survey
Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - This version: 29 February 2016
In this paper, we utilise data from a German population survey to test the validity of the Ricardian equivalence theorem (RET). In 2013, 2,000 representatively chosen people were asked whether they have altered their consumption and saving behaviour in response to the significant increase in...
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Subjective life expectancy and private pensions : conference paper
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Kluth, Sebastian - 2013
One important parameter in the decision process when buying a private annuity is individuals' subjective life expectancy, because it directly infuences the expected rate of return. We examine the market for private annuities in Germany and evaluate potential selection effects based on subjective...
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Non-take-up of tax-favored savings plans : are household portfolios optimal?
Alessie, Rob; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Soest, Arthur van - 2001
Since the early nineties, the Dutch tax system allows for a tax-favored form of risk free savings through employer …-sponsored savings plans (ESSPs). Under some conditions and up to a certain amount, the contributions to this planare tax-deductible, and … suggests that those who have access to this type of savings should participate inthem, provided they have some financial wealth …
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