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Baby boomer retirement security: The roles of planning, financial literacy, and Housing wealth
Lusardi, Annamaria; Mitchell, Olivia S. - Center for Financial Studies - 2006
We compare wealth holdings across two cohorts of the Health and Retirement Study: the early Baby Boomers in 2004, and … individuals in the same age group in 1992. Levels and patterns of total net worth have changed relatively little over time, though … Boomers rely more on housing equity than their predecessors. Most important, planners in both cohorts arrive close to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958739
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Baby Boomer Retirement Security: The Roles of Planning, Financial Literacy,and Housing Wealth
Lusardi, Annamaria; Mitchell, Olivia S. - Center for Financial Studies - 2006
We compare wealth holdings across two cohorts of the Health and Retirement Study: the early Baby Boomers in 2004, and … individuals in the same age group in 1992. Levels and patterns of total net worth have changed relatively little over time, though … Boomers rely more on housing equity than their predecessors. Most important, planners in both cohorts arrive close to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022447
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Fitting parsimonious household- portfolio models to data
Hubar, Sylwia; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian - 2014
US data and new stockholding data from fifteen European countries and China exhibit a common pattern: stockholding shares increase in household income and wealth. Yet, there is a multitude of numbers to match through models. Using a single utility function across households (parsimony), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426998
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The role of labor-income risk in household risk-taking?
Hubar, Sylwia; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian - 2020
In fifteen European countries, China, and the US, stocks and business equity as a share of total household assets are represented by an increasing and convex function of income/wealth. A parsimonious model fitted to the data shows why background labor-income risk can explain much of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254821
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Fitting parsimonious household- portfolio models to data
Hubar, Sylwia; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian - Center for Financial Studies - 2014
US data and new stockholding data from fifteen European countries and China exhibit a common pattern: stockholding shares increase in household income and wealth. Yet, there is a multitude of numbers to match through models. Using a single utility function across households (parsimony), we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986432
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Saving rates and portfolio choice with subsistence consumption
Achury, Carolina; Hubar, Sylwia; Koulovatianos, Christos - Center for Financial Studies - 2011
We analytically show that a common across rich/poor individuals Stone-Geary utility function with subsistence consumption in the context of a simple two-asset portfolio-choice model is capable of qualitatively and quantitatively explaining: (i) the higher saving rates of the rich, (ii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958742
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Fixed and variable longevity annuities in defined contribution plans: Optimal retirement portfolios taking social security into account
Horneff, Vanya; Maurer, Raimond; Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2023
This paper investigates retirees' optimal purchases of fixed and variable longevity income annuities using their defined contribution (DC) plan assets and given their expected Social Security benefits. As an alternative, we also evaluate using plan assets to boost Social Security benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013557346
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Target date funds and portfolio choice in 401(k) plans
Mitchell, Olivia S.; Utkus, Stephen P. - 2021
Target date funds in corporate retirement plans grew from $5B in 2000 to $734B in 2018, partly because federal regulation sanctioned these as default investments in automatic enrollment plans. We show that adopters delegated pension investment decisions to fund managers selected by plan...
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Increasing the effectiveness of financial education in the workplace
Lusardi, Annamaria - Center for Financial Studies - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958620
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Financial literacy: An essential tool for informed consumer choice?
Lusardi, Annamaria - Center for Financial Studies - 2008
Increasingly, individuals are in charge of their own financial security and are confronted with ever more complex financial instruments. However, there is evidence that many individuals are not well-equipped to make sound saving decisions. This paper demonstrates widespread financial illiteracy...
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