, savings, and the labor supplies of all adult household members. We show that the optimal policy mix is dominated by moderately …. To do so, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply, savings, and social assistance claiming decisions … generous social assistance, which guarantees a permanent universal minimum household income, with only a minor role for …

hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the … literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or …

We use data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to explore how household asset … market assets - drove the household balance sheet evolution; however, we find a great heterogeneity in the balance sheets …