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A Portfolio Approach to Mortality Shocks and Fertility Choice : Theory and Evidence from Africa

Wang, Ruixin - 2013

The effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on fertility in Africa remains ill understood. To align the contrasting findings … "quality" of offspring. According to this theoretical model, the overall impact of mortality shocks on fertility is … fertility impacts are conditional on income levels. We use African panel data to test the implications of the model, and find …

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Essays in economic and financial decisions of households

Jerphanion, Emiel - 2020

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Labor income risk and households' risky asset holdings

Becker, Gideon; Dimpfl, Thomas - In: Studies in economics and finance 33 (2016) 2, pp. 262-280

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Religion groups and portfolio choice decisions : evidence from UK households

Apergēs, Nikolaos - In: Finance research letters 54 (2023), pp. 1-6

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Household Portfolio Choice, Reference Dependence, and the Marriage Market

Li, Wenchao - 2017

This paper bridges the financial market and the marriage market using a reference-dependent mechanism. Male-biased sex ratios induce families with sons to hold more risky assets, since competitive marital payment in a tight market raises the reference level of marriage expenditure for such...

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Is it a boy or a girl? : newborn gender and household portfolio decisions

Arnaboldi, Francesca; Beccalli, Elena; Gioia, Francesca - In: European financial management : the journal of the … 30 (2024) 4, pp. 2095-2134

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Crunching Mortality and Life Insurance Portfolios with Extended CreditRisk

Hirz, Jonas - 2016

Using an extended version of the credit risk model CreditRisk, we develop a flexible framework with numerous applications amongst which we find stochastic mortality modelling, forecasting of death causes as well as profit and loss modelling of life insurance and annuity portfolios which can be...

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Understanding the Correlation between Alzheimer’s Disease Polygenic Risk, Wealth, and the Composition of Wealth Holdings

Shin, Su - 2019

We investigate how genetic risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease (AD) relates to saving behavior. Using nationally representative data from the 1992-2014 Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find that genetic predisposition for AD correlates with, but is not causally related to older...

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A structural analysis of the health expenditures and portfolio choices of retired agents

Hugonnier, Julien; Pelgrin, Florian; St.-Amour, Pascal - 2010

Richer and healthier agents tend to hold riskier portfolios and spend proportionally less on health expenditures. Potential explanations include health and wealth e ffects on preferences, expected longevity or disposable total wealth. Using HRS data, we perform a structural estimation of a...

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Household finance : a systematic literature review and directions for future research

Zehra, Nahid; Singh, Udai Bhan - In: Qualitative research in financial markets 15 (2023) 5, pp. 841-887

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