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We conducted a large-scale household survey in November 2020 to study how altering the time frame of a message (temporal framing) regarding an imminent positive income shock affects consumption plans. The income shock derives from the abolishment of the German solidarity surcharge on personal...
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implications for savings and long-term care policies. We first develop a theoretical model predicting that higher nursing home … aversion should induce higher savings and stronger support for policies subsidizing home care. We further document, based on a … likely to have higher intended savings for older age because of the pandemic. We also find that they are more likely to …
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for and control over the accumulation and use of savings for retirement. …
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We provide an explanation of the low willingness to save that is observed in many poor countries. Our explanation is based on the hypothesis that people have an over-optimistic outlook. As discussed in the psychological literature, an illusionary positive view of the future may be a good thing....
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