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The implications of household size and children for life-cycle saving
Capéau, Bart; Rock, Bram de - 2015
On the basis of a concatenation of fifteen Belgian household budget surveys from 1995/96 to 2010, we investigate the … impact of demographic factors, such as ageing and changing household composition, on saving behaviour. Not focusing on high … change in household size and composition. Older people seem to be more impatient, and thus save less, though this evidence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586153
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The credit card debt puzzle : the role of preferences, credit risk, and financial literacy
Gorbachev, Olga; Luengo-Prado, Maria José - 2016 - This version: July 7, 2016
We use the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to revisit what is termed the credit card debt puzzle: why consumers simultaneously co-hold high-interest credit card debt and lowinterest assets that could be used to pay down this debt. This dataset contains unique information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516711
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Predicting retirement savings using survey measures of exponential-growth bias and present bias
Goda, Gopi Shah; Levy, Matthew; Flaherty Manchester, … - 2018
In a nationally-representative sample, we predict retirement savings using survey-based elicitations of exponential-growth bias (EGB) and present bias (PB). We find that EGB, the tendency to neglect compounding, and PB, the tendency to value the present over the future, are highly significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902764
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Crisis impact on the diversity of financial portfolios : evidence from European citizens
Schäfer, Dorothea; Stöckel, Michael; Weser, Henriette - 2020
Since the 2008 Lehman bankruptcy, it is clearly shown that global economic and financial crises present major challenges to private households, requiring from them, a high level of shock absorption capacity. According to the old adage, "Do not put all the eggs in one basket", resilience depends,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270852
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Wealth effects and the consumption of Italian households in the Great Recession
Botazzi, Renata; Trucchi, Serena; Wakefield, Matthew - 2013
We estimate marginal propensities to consume from wealth shocks for Italian households. Large asset price shocks in 2008 underpin an IV estimator. A euro fall in financial or risky financial wealth resulted in cuts in annual total (non-durable) consumption of 5-9 (3.5-6) cents. There is evidence...
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Wealth effects and the consumption of Italian households in the Great Recession
Bottazzi, Renata; Trucchi, Serena; Wakefield, Matthew - 2017 - This version: August 2015
We estimate marginal propensities to consume from wealth shocks for Italian households in the early part of the Great Recession. Large asset price shocks in 2008 underpin an IV estimator. A euro fall in risky financial wealth resulted in cuts in annual total (non -durable) consumption of 8.5 ] 9...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674495
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Household debt and saving during the 2007 recession
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Lee, Donghoon; Klaauw, Wilbert … - 2011
Using credit report records and data collected from several household surveys, we analyze changes in household debt and … appears to reflect a considerable decline in household debt, as households paid down mortgage debt in particular. At the end … to become harder to obtain during 2010. -- household debt and saving ; 2007 recession ; credit access ; mortgage debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008935752
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Households' financial resilience, risk perceptions, and financial literacy : evidence from a survey experiment
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Fessler, Pirmin; Silgoner, Maria … - 2023 - This version: 21 December 2023
future events on households’ financial situation. Households are asked to assess specific risks for their own household … (treatment) or for a household with similar characteristics (control). On average, households assign a lower probability to … shocks that negatively affect personal finances if asked for their own household compared to a similar household. We do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473206
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The implications of household size and children for life-cycle saving
Capéau, Bart; De Rock, Bram - 2015
On the basis of a concatenation of fifteen Belgian household budget surveys from 1995/96 to 2010, we investigate the … impact of demographic factors, such as ageing and changing household composition, on saving behaviour. Not focusing on high … change in household size and composition. Older people seem to be more impatient, and thus save less, though this evidence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506806
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The impact of financial education on adolescents' intertemporal choices
Lührmann, Melanie; Serra-Garcia, Marta; Winter, Joachim - 2014
We examine the impact of a large high-school financial education program on the intertemporal choices of adolescents. We randomly assigned the program among a sample of almost 1,000 students and measured their intertemporal choices using an incentivized experiment. While intertemporal choices in...
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