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-Americans and Hispanics. Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large …
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consumption models, including a numerically solved precautionary savings model. We find that inter-country differences are …
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percentage losses in retirement savings as a result of more frequent spells of unemployment. Higher income worker losses are more …
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increase in saving - at least in 2009 - did not materialize through an increase in contributions to retirement and savings …
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Many older US households have done little or no planning for retirement, and there is a substantial population that seems to undersave for retirement. Of particular concern is the relative position of older women, who are more vulnerable to old-age poverty due to their longer longevity. This...
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estimates show that planning behavior can explain the differences in savings and why some people arrive close to retirement with …
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This paper examines data on financial sophistication among the U.S. older population, using a special-purpose module implemented in the Health and Retirement Study. We show that financial sophistication is deficient for older respondents (aged 55+). Specifically, many in this group lack a basic...
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Most econometric models of intrahousehold behavior assume that household decision-making is efficient, i.e., utility realizations lie on the Pareto frontier. In this paper we investigate this claim by adding a number of participation constraints to the household allocation problem. Short-run...
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Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order … household wealth is crowded out by pensions? (2) Can linear regression analysis accurately estimate the magnitude of crowdout … when the assumptions used in the empirical analysis are invalid? (3) How valuable are pensions to households? Simulation …
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