Search Results - subject:"Life Cycle Model"

Uncertain lifetime and intertemporal choice : risk aversion as a rationale for time discounting

Bommier, Antoine - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2001

This paper makes explicit the links between preferences over lotteries on length of life and intertemporal choice. I show that the approach used by traditional life cycle models to account for uncertain survival corresponds to a strong assumption of risk neutrality with respect to the length of...

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On the Intergenerational Incidence of Wage and Consumption Taxes

Wigger, Berthold U. - 2000

This paper analyzes the intergenerational incidence of wage and consumption taxes imposed to finance a given amount of public expenditures. It employs a continuous time overlapping genera-tions framework to demonstrate that it essentially hinges on the relationship between the age-earnings and...

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The Life Cycle Model of Consumption and Saving

Browning, Martin; Crossley, Thomas F. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2000

The life-cycle model is the standard framework which economists use to think about the intertemporal allocation of time … assesment of the life- cycle model by re-examining the empirical evidence for smoothing (1) within the year, (2)at year … models to microdata. Thus it is much too early to abandon the life-cycle model. …

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On the Intergenerational Incidence of Wage and Consumption Taxes

Wigger, Berthold U. - CESifo - 2000

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On the intergenerational incidence of wage and consumption taxes

Wigger, Berthold U. - 2000

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The retirement consumption puzzle in Japan

Wakabayashi, Midori - In: Journal of Population Economics 21 (2008) 4, pp. 983-1005

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The importance of being mature: the effect of demographic maturation on global per capita GDP

Gómez, Rafael; Cos, Pablo Hernández de - In: Journal of Population Economics 21 (2008) 3, pp. 589-608

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Allocating Government Education Expenditures Across K-12 and College Education

Blankenau, William; Cassou, Steven; Ingram, Beth - In: Economic Theory 31 (2007) 1, pp. 85-112

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Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model

Blau, David M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

smooth consumption path. A simple life cycle model with uncertainty about the time of retirement can account for this pattern …

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Population growth and savings rates: Some new cross-country estimates

Cook, Christopher - In: International Review of Applied Economics 19 (2005) 3, pp. 301-319

It is widely recognised that population growth can have two conflicting effects on savings. It reduces savings as it leads to more dependent children, but if balanced it can also increase savings by increasing the number entering the working part of the life cycle and hence the number of...

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