This paper reports on a study of how spending in older American households (ages 50 and above) varies across different census regions and divisions. The study shows large variations in household spending across the country, suggesting that both individual households and financial firms might...

This study examined how Australia's tax and transfer system, especially in relation to the Age Pension, impacts on household retirement choices. As the population ages, fiscal challenges created when many individuals retire from working and paying tax to drawing government funded benefits and...

This Article explains how to create “survivor funds” — short-term investment funds that would pay more to those investors who live until the end of the fund's term than to those who die before then. For example, instead of just investing in a 10-year bond and dividing the proceeds among...

This study examines the potential consequences of early withdrawals from the Malaysian Employees Provident Fund in patterns of savings adequacy by studying the impact of house purchase on household lifecycle consumption. The authors develop an overlapping generations model of a small open...

Langfristig sinkende Einwohnerzahlen und die demographische Entwicklung lassen die Bedeutung Älterer für die Inlandsnachfrage in Deutschland steigen. Haushalte von älteren Personen fragen nicht grundsätzlich andere Güter und Dienste nach als Haushalte von Jüngeren, jedoch unterscheidet...

The traditional debate on the real and financial consequences of ageing is based on two assumptions: a deteriorating old-age dependency ratio and declining productivity of an ageing population. Both suppositions are questionable. Relevant for the future burden is not the old-age dependency ratio...

This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a desire for dynasty building) and shows that these assumptions have very different implications for bequest motives and bequest division. After reviewing some of the literature on...

This paper analyzes the determinants of the wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Japan using unique information from two household surveys, and by so doing, attempts to assess the relative importance of precautionary saving and bequest motives in explaining the lower than...

This paper studies a household's optimal demand for a reverse mortgage. These contracts allow homeowners to tap their home equity to finance consumption needs. In stylized frameworks, we show that the decision to enter a reverse mortgage is mainly driven by the differential between the aggregate...

How to invest and decumulate wealth during retirement has far-reaching consequences for consumption during retirement. We conduct an online experiment among 2,500 individuals representative of the adult German population. First, we investigate the choice between phased withdrawal plans with...