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Do savings increase in response to salient information about retirement and expected pensions?
Dolls, Mathias; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2016
How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … change the level of pensions, but only manipulated the knowledge about and salience of expected pension payments. Using … on private retirement savings. Our results show that the letters increase private retirement savings. The effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535690
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510103
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Loose knots : strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda
Karlan, Dean; Linden, Leigh L. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342533
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15 years of pension reform in Germany : old successes and new threats
Bonin, Holger - 2009
The paper surveys the state of German pension system after a sequence of reforms aimed at achieving long-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a defined contribution scheme, and that this move has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857711
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Intrinsic work motivation and pension reform acceptance
Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja; Moessinger, … - 2011
(increasing pension age, increasing contributions, cutting pensions) can be analyzed within the framework of an optimal job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009162092
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Consumption over the life cycle
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2000
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Designing a linear pension scheme with forced savings and wage heterogeneity
Cremer, Helmuth; De Donder, Philippe; Maldonado, Dario; … - 2006
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Funded and unfunded pensions : risk, return and welfare
Miles, David - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013423002
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Finanzierungsstrukturen im Vergleich - eine Analyse europäischer Unternehmen
Ramb, Fred - 1998
Kapitalstruktur analysiert. Für die meisten der analysierten Länder - darunter Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien und die Niederlande …
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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416210