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Social Security and Household Wealth Accumulation: Refined Microeconometric Evidence

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  • Gullason, Edward T
  • Kolluri, Bharat R
  • Panik, Michael J

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This study examines the relationship between social security wealth and fungible wealth using relatively recent micro data. The authors find that a ceteris paribus increase in social security wealth has no effect on fungible wealth, suggesting that Ricardian equivalence holds. Of the individual wealth categories comprising fungible wealth, only pension wealth is negatively and significantly affected by an increase in social security wealth and, if some of this pension wealth is not fully funded, Ricardian equivalence will not hold. The authors conclude, therefore, that the social security system might adversely affect capital accumulation but not necessarily to the degree suggested by others. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.

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  • Gullason, Edward T & Kolluri, Bharat R & Panik, Michael J, 1993. "Social Security and Household Wealth Accumulation: Refined Microeconometric Evidence," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 75(3), pages 548-551, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:75:y:1993:i:3:p:548-51
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    1. Cigno, A., 2016. "Conflict and Cooperation Within the Family, and Between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security," Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, in: Piggott, John & Woodland, Alan (ed.), Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 0, pages 609-660, Elsevier.
    2. Bönke, Timm & Grabka, Markus M. & Schröder, Carsten & Wolff, Edward N., 2020. "A Head-to-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 122(3), pages 1140-1180.
    3. Cerda, Rodrigo A., 2008. "Social Security and Wealth Accumulation in Developing Economies: Evidence from the 1981 Chilean Reform," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 36(10), pages 2029-2044, October.
    4. Dimitris Hatzinikolaou & Agathi Tsoka, 2016. "Modeling and Estimating the Effects of Institutional Variables on a Pay-as-you-go Social Security System and on Household Saving," Public Finance Review, , vol. 44(5), pages 589-609, September.
    5. Feldstein, Martin & Liebman, Jeffrey B., 2002. "Social security," Handbook of Public Economics, in: A. J. Auerbach & M. Feldstein (ed.), Handbook of Public Economics, edition 1, volume 4, chapter 32, pages 2245-2324, Elsevier.
    6. Seng-Eun Choi, 2010. "Social Security and Household Saving in Korea: Evidence from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey," Korean Economic Review, Korean Economic Association, vol. 26, pages 97-119.

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