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, endogenous mortality and morbidity, as well as backward induction suggests that these changes should affect the dynamic life … allocation (consumption, leisure, health expenditures), status (health, wealth and survival rates), and welfare. We analyse the … impact of young (resp. old) insurance status conditional on old (resp. young) coverage through the structural estimation of a …
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How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...
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How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this question, we use micro data to estimate a structural life-cycle model of individuals' employment, retirement and consumption decisions. We calculate that, in the case...
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On average, "young" people underestimate whereas "old" people overestimate their chances to survive into the future. We adopt a Bayesian learning model of ambiguous survival beliefs which replicates these patterns. The model is embedded within a non-expected utility model of life-cycle...
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How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this question, we use micro data to estimate a structural life-cycle model of individuals' employment, retirement and consumption decisions. We calculate that, in the case...
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-of-sample wealth levels than estimates using life table mortality risks, suggesting that decisions about consumption and saving are …This paper investigates whether subjective expectations about future mortality affect consumption and bequests motives …. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model based on subjective survival rates and wealth from the panel dataset Asset and …
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