structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity …

We revisit the alleged retirement consumption puzzle. According to the life-cycle theory, foreseeable income reductions … significant negative impacts of the retirement status on housing consumption, which is hard to reconcile with the life-cycle …

This paper analyzes the main uncertainty of college saving - the child’s ability - in the context of the saving with …’ forward-looking saving behavior when they are confronted with the real option of college choice due to uncertainty of their … investigates college saving behavior when learning is present. Data suggest pessimistic and/or rich parents might reduce the level …

-Economic Panel and the SAVE study indicate that private saving was hardly affected by the introduction of the Riester scheme …. -- Household saving ; Saving incentives ; Retirement ; Riester scheme ; Coarsened exact matching …

. To do so, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply, savings, and social assistance claiming decisions …

making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply …

personalized feedback consisting of recommendations to self-set saving goals. These recommendations trigger increases in savings of … address crowding-out behavior into other forms of saving. …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … homogeneity across countries with respect to saving preferences and the relative importance of different motives for saving. In … significant and economically important determinants of household saving preferences and credit constraints. …