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The Precautionary Saving Motive and Wealth Accumulation

Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Alessie, Rob - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2010

We quantify the relative importance of the precautionary saving motive in determining wealth accumulation. Puzzling …

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Did you really save so little for your retirement? An analysis of retirement savings and unconventional retirement accounts

Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Alessie, Rob - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2011

We use a confirmatory factor analysis to study the relation between the importance of a broad spectrum of saving … motives, such as saving for retirement, and saving behavior. Survey data show that many respondents save for retirement in …

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Home and mortgage ownership of the Dutch elderly; explaining cohort, time and age effects

Schors, Anna van der; Alessie, Rob; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2007

The relationship between home ownership of Dutch elderly households and age is strongly negative. Other studies suggest that this age gradient should be attributed to a cohort effect. In this paper, we investigate where those cohort effects come from. We also observe that mortgage ownership...

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