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Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimate reduced form retirement and wealth equations. The retirement equation relates the probability of retiring to the quot;premium valuequot;, a forward looking measure of the future value of pensions and social security that better...
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at different times gives the optimal savings decision. The results are tractable and easy to interpret …
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model which features compulsory savings accounts and transparent pricing of health services. It has achieved some of the … how tax cuts can be designed to help establish compulsory savings accounts so that a publicly funded welfare system can be … like unemployment) through the establishment of a set of compulsory savings accounts. A case study of New Zealand is used …
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We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s-2007), and recent substantial increase (2008-2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious 'buffer stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence of...
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This paper studies attention allocation behavior of rationally inattentive consumers who have CRRA preferences, face uninsured capital income risk, and suffer from an information-processing capacity constraint. For given attention devoted to capital income risk, we solve for the optimal...
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This paper studies the effect of demographic change on national saving, global interest rates, and international capital flows, focusing on the role of the public pension system. We develop a small open economy overlapping generations model to illustrate the channels through which demographic...
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How does risk affect saving? Empirical work typically examines the effects of detectible differences in risk within the data. How these differences affect saving in theoretical models depends on the metric one uses for risk. For labor-income risk, second-degree increases in risk require prudence...
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of a tax policy change on households' consumption and retirement savings behavior …, by using a unique panel data of voluntary retirement savings (PPF) and debit card spending transactions. On average, we … find that households reduce their consumption by 14% and increase their PPF savings by 16% in response to an increase in …
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theoretical prediction of a simple model, determines a much lower amount of savings and wealth accumulation and therefore a lower …
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Mandatory contributions to retirement savings accounts may tighten existing borrowing constraints, forcing individuals … to forgo profitable investment options. This welfare-detrimental effect can be offset if retirement savings are allowed … combined with a pension system with unconditional basic savings …
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