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Means testing and Social Security in the United States
Bagchi, Shantanu - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 68-91
This paper uses a heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model to examine the fiscal and distributional consequences of introducing a means test in US Social Security. I find that a means test, that is, conditioning benefit payments on a household's earnings or assets, leads to a higher...
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Household risk‐sharing channels
Asdrubali, Pierfederico; Tedeschi, Simone; Ventura, Luigi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 3, pp. 1109-1142
This paper aims to fill the gaps in the analysis of risk‐sharing channels at the microlevel, both within and across … households. Using data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth covering the financial crisis, we are able … to quantify in a unified and consistent framework several risk‐sharing mechanisms that so far have been documented …
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Income uncertainty and the demand for annuities
Strawczynski, Michel - In: Economics letters 63 (1999) 1, pp. 91-96
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Asymmetry in precautionary saving under employment uncertainty
Bhattacharya, Kaushik - In: Indian economic review : biannual journal of the Delhi … 33 (1998) 1, pp. 87-95
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Consumption adjustment under time-varying income uncertainty
Hahm, Joon-Ho; Steigerwald, Douglas G. - In: The review of economics and statistics 81 (1999) 1, pp. 32-40
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Risky income, life cycle consumption, and precautionary savings
Skinner, Jonathan - In: Journal of monetary economics 22 (1988), pp. 237-255
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Exogenous income uncertainty, labor supply and saving : a nonexpected utility maximizing analysis
Ghosh, Satyajit - In: The journal of business and economic studies 4 (1998) 2, pp. 53-59
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Unemployment and portfolio choice : does persistence matter?
Bremus, Franziska; Kuzin, Vladimir - In: Journal of macroeconomics 40 (2014), pp. 99-113
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Domestic or global imbalances? : rising income risk and the fall in the US current account
Broer, Tobias - In: Journal of monetary economics 64 (2014), pp. 47-67
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A possibilistic and probabilistic approach to precautionary saving
Georgescu, Irina; Cristóbal-Campoamor, Adolfo; … - In: Panoeconomicus 64 (2017) 3, pp. 273-295
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