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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 …

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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...

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Loose knots : strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda

Karlan, Dean; Linden, Leigh L. - 2014

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Risk aversion, intertemporal substitution and consumption : the CARA-LQ problem

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 1990

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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...